John Cordes estate book, 1764-1937.

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John Cordes estate book, 1764-1937.

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Typescript copy of the John Cordes estate book (1764-1798) transcribed during a 1935-1937 W.P.A. project. Inventory and appraisal (1764) of the John Cordes estate contains lists of slaves (names and appraised values), dishes, furniture, linens, animals, rice, indigo, and other items. The volume also includes slaves (with names and valuations) taken by Catharine Cordes of Charleston (S.C.), and by Theodore Gaillard. Memorandums signed by the estate's executor Samuel Cordes are with other family members including John Cordes (1749-1798). Accounts list overseers' wages, Negro cloth, salt, beef, Negro shoes, doctor's bills, taxes, horses, wages, schooling for Thomas Cordes, household expenses for Catharine Cordes and her daughter Catharine; and income from work done by Halthan Hall Negroes, indigo grown at Yaughan, rice, and corn. Additional estate appraisals (1784, 1796) and accounts are for Isaac Barn (Samuel and John Cordes, executors), Samuel Cordes (includes slaves at Lane and Curriboo Plantations and elsewhere), and John Cordes (1749-1798, includes slaves). Also included is a register of Porcher family members compiled by W.M. Porcher in 1850.

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Cordes, Catharine, 1745-1832.

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Gaillard, Theodore, 1737-1805

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Cordes, Thomas, 1753-1806.

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Porcher, William Mazyck.

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Cordes, John, 1718-1756.

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Cordes, Samuel, d. 1796.

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Cordes, John, 1749-1798.

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