Alston Deas collection of property records, 1823-1895.

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Alston Deas collection of property records, 1823-1895.

Collection contains property records including deeds, an indenture, a release, receipts, a chain of title, and other items pertaining to real property in Charleston District and Charleston County, South Carolina. Individuals named in the documents include Wilmot G. DeSaussure, Simon Magwood, George A. Trenholm, and Mary Elizabeth Trenholm.

20 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7337827

South Carolina Historical Society

Related Entities

There are 5 Entities related to this resource.

Magwood, Simon, 1805-1891.

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Trenholm, George Alfred, 1806-1876

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Secretary of Confederate Treasury; member of South Carolina House of Representatives; cotton broker and native of Charleston, S.C.; Trenholm owned John Fraser & Company of Charleston, S.C., and shipped sea island cotton to Fraser, Trenholm, and Co. (Liverpool, England); Trenholm also owned interests in interests in steamships, railroads, banks, hotels, plantations, wharves, and cotton presses; father of William Lee Trenholm (1836-1901), who served as Captain, Company B, Seventh Regiment, Sou...

DeSaussure, Wilmot G. (Wilmot Gibbes), 1822-1886

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Lieutenant Colonel Wilmot Gibbes DeSaussure (1822-1886) of the 1st Artillery Regiment of the South Carolina Militia, which was later absorbed into the Army of the Confederate States of America, commanded Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island, December 1860-January 1861, and artillery at Morris Island, March-April 1861, in the harbor of Charleston, S.C. He served in the South Carolina legislature, 1848-1864. From the description of Wilmot G. DeSaussure order-book, 1860-1861. WorldCat rec...

Deas, Alston, 1893-1985

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Charleston, South Carolina preservationist, educator, author, and U.S. Army officer. Col. Alston Deas spent nearly sixty years in military service. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, Deas later taught there and at The Citadel (Military College of South Carolina). He was president of the Preservation Society of Charleston and chairman of the Charleston Zoning Commission. From the description of Alston Deas papers, 1931-1977. (The South Carolina Historical ...

Trenholm, Mary Elizabeth.

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