Sandy Island plantation journals/almanacs, 1792-1798.

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Sandy Island plantation journals/almanacs, 1792-1798.

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Three almanacs containing interleaved pages with handwritten plantation journal entries kept by Allard Belin for his plantation on Sandy Island. Entries in volume 1 (1792) pertain to preparing the ground for planting rice, maintaining ditches and drains, hiring Mrs. Keith's (of Black River) [slave] Billey from Laurel Hill [Plantation], planting corn and potatoes, problems with an overseer, raising sheep with Mr. Weston at Laurel Hill, and amounts of rice produced. Volume also contains a list of the names of slaves and number of blankets they received. Volume 2 (1797) pertains to rice planting, runaway slaves, Mrs. Keith's Billey missing work, harvesting rice and the quantities harvested, paying Mrs. Susannah Keith for "her carpenter fellows work," and expenses on the crop for 1797. Volume 3 (1798) contains entries concerning rice planting, corn and potato planting, runaway slaves, the receipt of cypress planks from Plowden Weston, a payment to George Skinner for planks from last winter, getting cooper stuff, and Mrs. Taylor's bricklayers providing 17 days labor.

3 v.

South Carolina Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7337983

South Carolina Historical Society

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Weston, Plowden, 1739-1827.

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Georgetown County, South Carolina rice plantation owner. Plowden Weston came from Warwickshire, England, to the colony of South Carolina in 1757 and established himself in trade in Charleston (S.C.). He bought Laurel Hill Plantation in 1775 and adjoining lands in 1777. Plowden Weston accumulated a great fortune, the bulk of which he left to two sons, Dr. Paul Weston (1784-1837) and Francis Marion Weston. Francis Marion Weston lived at Laurel Hill Plantation. His son, Plowden C.J. Weston, was tut...

Belin, Allard, 1752-1820.

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Plantation owner of Huguenot descent, who for many years planted on Sandy Island (Prince George Winyah Parish), Georgetown County, South Carolina. Allard Belin's son, Colonel Allard Henry Belin (1803-1871), inherited Belin's estate. Allard Henry Belin's plantation was known as Sandy Knowle. From the description of Sandy Island plantation journals/almanacs, 1792-1798. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32141682 ...

KEITH, SUSANNAH

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