Cleland Kinloch Huger papers, 1731-1932.

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Cleland Kinloch Huger papers, 1731-1932.

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Consisting of letters, deeds, plats, and mortgages re Huger, Allston, Alston, Horry, Pawley, Dwight, and Izard families in Georgetown and Horry Districts re life during Colonial, Antebellum, Reconstruction, and later eras. Includes papers re African American slaves identified by name; letters of overseers and plantation managers; transfer of lots in Georgetown, S.C.; correspondence, 1845- 1846, between C.K. Huger and brothers Benjamin and Thomas Pinckney, re sale of family real estate in Abbeville District, S.C., and disposition of slaves; and letter, 13 May 1851, from Charleston postmaster Alfred Huger opposing proposed convention [Southern Rights Convention]. Papers re Huger's ownership and management of Exchange, a rice plantation in Georgetown District, S.C., purchased from R.F.W. Allston in 1846 and resold to him in 1853; letters from Charleston slave trader Philip J. Porcher and plantation manager William G. Linerieux; letters of Charleston factors J.C. Huger, Thomas B. Huger, and Alfred F. Ravenel re Charleston rice market, sale of Huger's rice, and shipment of supplies; and documents, 1856-1857, re Huger's involvement in sale of plantation owned by Charles Alston, Jr. Civil War items include vouchers and receipts for payments made by Huger as chief ordnance officer, Department of S.C., Georgia, and Florida; record of "Batteries of Light Artillery ...," 6 Jan. 1865; inventory of ordnance stores in Cheraw (Chesterfield District, S.C.), and Wilmington, N.C., 10 Feb. 1865; and letter, 20 Mar. 1865, to Brig. Gen. Josiah Gorgas, Richmond, Va., re ordnance stores lost during evacuation of Cheraw, S.C. Items dating to Reconstruction era include papers, 1865-1867, re agreement between Huger and Bentley D. Hassell and Morris K. Jesup & Co., New York, to sell railroad equipment and supplies, as well as Huger's involvement, 1869-1892, in insurance business in Charleston, S.C.; miscellaneous items include broadside circular, Dec. 1843, re opening of Pendleton Female Academy under superintent James F. Gould. Broadside, 27 Jan. 1857, "List of 53 Prime Negroes Now engaged in the cultivation of Rice on Waccamaw River. For Sale By Alonzo White," with individual slaves identified by name; bound volumes include 3 account books, 1854-1884, 1866-1887, 1874- 1884; 3 letterpress copybooks, 1866-1872, 1872-1875, 1875-1889, re Huger's insurance business; and 2 letterbooks, 1895-1899, 1900-1902, of Huger's son-in-law, A.F. DeJersey.

675 items and 8 v.

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7323023

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Allston, Robert F. W. (Robert Francis Withers), 1801-1864

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Robert F. W. Allston was a rice planter and civil engineer; surveyor general of South Carolina, 1823; member of the General Assembly, 1828-1832; state senator, 1832-1856; and governor, 1856-1858. From the description of Robert F. W. Allston letter, 1843 September 5. WorldCat record id: 22758135 Georgetown County, South Carolina plantation owner and politician. He graduated from West Point in 1821, leaving the army in 1822. Allston lived at Matanzas Plantation, later called C...

DeJersey, A. F., fl. ca. 1902

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M.K. Jesup & Co. (New York, N.Y.)

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Huger, Thomas B.

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Gorgas, Josiah, 1818-1883

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General and Chief of Ordnance for the Confederate States Army; later, president of the University of Alabama. From the description of Extracts from my notes written chiefly soon after the close of the war, [ca. 1865]. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 29452282 Born in Dauphin County, Pa., Josiah Gorgas graduated from West Point in 1841 and was assigned to the ordnance corps. He served in the Mexican-American War and was promoted to captain in 1855. In 1853, he mar...

Alston family.

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Alston, Charles, 1683-1760

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Epithet: botanist, of Edinburgh British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000923.0x000184 ...

Hassell, Bentley D.

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Ravenel, Alfred F.

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Linerieux, William G.

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Gould, James F.

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Huger family.

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Porcher, Philip

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Confederate states of America. Army

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The Savannah Ordnance Depot, Savannah, Georgia, was organized as a field depot during the Civil War. In April 1864, it became the Savannah Arsenal under the supervision of the Chief of Ordnance. From the description of Savannah Ordnance Depot employment roll, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477938 The Confederate States of America Army may have created the position of Purchasing Commissary of Subsistence to oversee the distribution of food and other supplies to the Co...

Pendleton Female Academy (S.C.)

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Huger, Cleland Kinloch, 1818-1892.

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Rice planter of Georgetown District, S.C.; resident of Pendleton, and later of Georgetown District, and Charleston, S.C., and elsewhere; born Stateburg, S.C.; son of Francis Kinloch Huger and Harriott Lucas Pinckney Huger; member, Rutledge Mounted Riflemen; C.S.A., Chief Ordnance Officer, Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida; insurance business, Charleston, S.C., 1869-1892. From the description of Cleland Kinloch Huger papers, 1731-1932. (University of South Carolina). W...

Horry family.

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Huger, Alfred, 1788-1872

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Planter, attorney, and postmaster of Charleston, S.C. From the description of Letterpress books, 1853-1859 ; 1861-1863. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154270596 From the description of Letterpress books, 1853-1859; 1861-1863. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19643166 Charleston, S.C. plantation owner and South Carolina state senator. From the description of Letter : Longwood, to Benjamin Huger, 1863 March 15. (The South Caro...