Chiefly tax receipts, records of sale and hiring-out of slaves, and personal accounts associated with settlement of the estate following death of William B. Oswald in 1825, and the deaths of his three sons in 1827, 1832, and 1834. Papers include account, [ca. 1 Apr. 1833], listing assessed values for eight of "Oswald's Negroes," plus a family of five African American slaves priced as a unit; estate inventory, 6 Nov. 1833, of household goods, livestock, and farm equipment auctioned from the estate of W[illia]m B. Oswald. Three unbound volumes, listing accounts, 1819-1841, prescribing a cure for cholera, recording slave births and deaths, and wages received for slaves hired out to work in carpentry, on a steamboat, and various other employment. Also includes letter, 21 Oct. [183u?], Th[oma]s Fuller, Jr., to Mrs. Oswald, "I saw the Capt. of the 'Beauf[ort] District' & he consented ... to attend to the wages of your hands in Savannah ... Mr. Sandford consents to you sending Hands at any time to split rails there."
