Papers of the Kirkland, Withers, Snowden, and Trotter families, 1790-1959.

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Papers of the Kirkland, Withers, Snowden, and Trotter families, 1790-1959.

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Chiefly family letters; newspaper clippings; and genealogical materials re the Boykin, Lee, LeSerurier, Mazyck, Kirkland, Snowden, Trotter, Withers, and Yates families, bills of sale, 3 Mar. 1828 and 28 Oct. 1859, for slaves purchased by William L. Kirkland; obituary, 22 June 1864, for William L. Kirkland, from the Charleston Mercury; oath of allegiance, 1 July 1865, Camden, S.C., signed by Thomas Jefferson Withers; typescript, 1923, "Reminiscences of Mary Miller Withers Kirkland"; typescript, 1928, "From Marvyn Scudder Manual of Extinct or Obsolete Securities--Savannah & Charleston Railroad Company"; undated typescript, "Carolina Judge, The Life of Thomas Jefferson Withers; and death certificate, 3 Mar. 1933, of Yates Snowden. Correspondence includes 23 letters, 2 June 1816 - 4 June 1825, Pineville, S.C., C.B. Snowden, to Joshua L. Snowden, Charleston, S.C., re social and economic conditions in the state; 7 letters, 16 Feb. 1862 - 22 Mar. 1863, Mary Withers Kirkland, to Kate Withers, Barhamville, S.C., re family matters; letter, 1 June 1862, Richmond, Va., William L. Kirkland, to Mary Withers Kirkland, expecting to go into battle the next day; letter, 19 June 1864, Richmond, Va., Carlos Tracy, to [Thomas Jefferson] Withers, Camden, S.C., re William L. Kirkland's death that day; 6 letters, 31 Mar. [1878] and undated, Mary Boykin Chesnut, to various friends, re her activities; unsigned letter, 16 Dec. 1913, to Yates Snowden, re Negro James Hutchinson who betrayed the Confederate troops on Edisto Island in 1863; letter, 22 Apr. 1918, France, Augustus Massenberg Trotter, to "Home Folks," re living arrangements; and letter, 11 Feb. 1933, London, James Truslow Adams, to Yates Snowden, Columbia, S.C., re pamphlets Snowden sent and his plans for writing history. Bound volumes include diary, with typed transcriptions of selected passages; recipe book; poems; genealogical notes of the Yates, Snowden and connected families; and genealogical data re the forbears of Augustus Massenberg Trotter and Pauline Snowden Trotter.

585 items and 5 v.

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller, 1823-1886

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Trotter, Augustus Massenberg, d. 1918.

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Hutchinson, James, active 1803

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Tracy, Carlos

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Withers, Thomas Jefferson, 1804-1865

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Savannah & Charleston Railroad Company.

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Snowden, C. B.

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Kirkland, Mary Miller Withers.

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Snowden, Joshua L.

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Kirkland family.

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LeSerurier family.

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Adams, James Truslow, 1878-1949

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Mormon missionary. From the description of Diary, 1900-1902. [photocopy]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122604696 James Truslow Adams was successful businessman who became a celebrated historian, writing chiefly about the history of early New England. In 1912, having worked for twelve years as a businessman in a New York brokerage house, Adams moved to Bridgehampton, L.I., and began writing. His first books--"Memorials of Old Bridgehampton" (1916) a...

Snowden, Yates, 1858-1933

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Historian and educator. Yates Snowden was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and was a professor of history at the University of South Carolina. From the description of Letter : Columbia, S.C., to Judge [Smith], 1922 Oct. 23. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32144712 ...

Snowden family.

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Lee family.

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Trotter family.

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Yates family.

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Mazyck family.

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Trotter, Pauline Snowden.

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Withers family.

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Boykin family.

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Kirkland, William Lennox, -1864

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