Thomas Jones Davies papers, 1784-1907.

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Davies, Thomas Jones, 1830-1902. Thomas Jones Davies papers, 1784-1907.

Thomas Jones Davies papers, 1784-1907.

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Primarily business records and correspondence, including deeds, plats, and tranfers of land, 1784-1863, in Georgia and South Carolina; bills, receipts and other documents, 1814-1817, re settlement of John Davies' estate; promissory notes and other financial records, 1871-1875, re Davies' railroad enterprises in Alabama and Mississippi; and bills for materials purchased by Davies and the partnership of Davies & Hammond, including letter, 1 July 1869, from M[arcus] C[laudius] M[arcellus] Hammond, B[eech] I[sland], S.C., re crop prospects, the labor shortage, and plans to employ Chinese workers on his plantation; and undated manuscript, "Estimates for the graduation, bridging[,] trestling[,] track-laying &c. of the Port Royal Rail Road." Also includes broadside, Graniteville, S.C., 22 Feb. 1862, soliciting recruits for Capt. Davies Guards, Co. F, 7th Regiment, S.C. Volunteers; and by Davies' Civil War pardon, 23 Apr. 1866, signed by Andrew Johnson and William H. Seward; and materials re Mrs. Davies' her continuation of her husband's export business after his death. Bound volumes include plantation journal documenting joint ownership, 1857-1863, of a plantation in Bolivar County, Miss., by Davies and Marcus Claudius Marcellus Hammond, and its subsequent ownership by Davies and P.L. Whitworth, 1866-1867, with information re African American slaves relocated from South Carolina to Mississippi and a list of free laborers on the plantation of Whitworth and Davies, providing names, ages, wages, and remarks re work potential; account book, Palmetto Fire Brick Works and Bath Fire Brick Works, 1862-1865, and 1870-1871, with accounts of Davies' work as contractor for the Jacksonville, Pensacola & Mobile Railroad and the Montgomery & Eufaula Railroad. Copy of genealogical information from a family Bible (filed in folder on-site) recording births, deaths, and marriages, ca. 1830 to 1865, of enslaved African American families working on properties in South Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi owned by Thomas Jones Davies. Vital statistics document eighty-two births, thirty-six deaths, and eleven marriages of enslaved individuals identified by name. Bilbe (published 1841), stored offsite. Invoice book, 1874-1880, for shipments of clay from Beech Island to New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and Savannah; and scrapbook, 1849-1903, containing newspapers articles by Davies, obituaries, autographs of Wade Hampton, M.C. Butler and Alexander H. Stephens, and newspaper clippings, 6 and 13 June 1888, disussing the operations of the "The Nonpariel Kaolin Mine," owned by a group, and the "Paragon Clay works, " owned by Davies in Aiken County, S.C. Other Correspondents include James Henry Hammond, Lawrence M. Keitt, L.M. Bickford and E.M. Sergeant.

5 v.

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries