Alston family papers, 1846-1902.

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Alston family papers, 1846-1902.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32144039

The collection includes family letters, a cookbook, and genealogical and biographical materials on the Allston, Alston, Petigru, Pinckney, and Smith families of Georgetown and Charleston area. Included are the family letters (ca. 1846-1902) of Thomas P. Alston (1795-1861) and his children with many letters by Alston to his daughter Mary Brewton Alston Waring. The letters concern family matters with scattered comments concerning politics, travel, and health concerns. Also included are other letters to Mary Brewton Alston Waring from Rebecca B. Hayne, sister of Thomas P. Alston, and Sue Alston, and letters of George H. Waring and John R. Alston including one (August 20, 1863) concerning the death of John R. Alston's child. Letters are from Pawley's Island, True Blue Plantation (Georgetown Co., S.C.), Charleston, S.C., Ga., Va., New York, and elsewhere. The collection also includes Jacob Motte Alston's reminiscences written in the form of a letter (ca. 1890s) to his grandson, Motte Alston Read. The recollections center mostly on the Georgetown are but also include descriptions of visits to Charleston, S.C. Other items include a copy of Thomas P. Alston's will (1859); a cookbook (ca. 1851-1871) of Emma Clara Pringle Alston of Fairfield Plantation (Georgetown Co., S.C.), the wife of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Alston and sister-in-law of Thomas P. Alston (1795-1861).

0.75 linear ft.3 v.

South Carolina Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7338045

South Carolina Historical Society

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Smith family.

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Alston, Sue.

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Alston, John Rutledge Smith, b. 1835.

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Alston, Jacob Motte, 1821-1909

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Alston, Thomas Pinckney, 1795-1861.

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Waring, Mary Brewton Alston, b. 1827.

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Pinckney family.

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Alston family.

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Family of Charleston and Georgetown County, South Carolina, descendants of William Alston (1756-1839), the first of the Alstons to use a single "l" (instead of Allston). Thomas Pinckney Alston (1795-1861) married Jane Ladson Smith (1800-1823), daughter of John Rutledge Smith and Susan Elizabeth Ladson in 1820. After her death Alston married Susan Elisabeth Smith (sister of Jane Ladson Smith, Alston's first wife) in 1825. By his first wife he had nine children including J...

Read, Motte Alston, 1872-1920.

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Waring, George H., fl. 1865.

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Hayne, Rebecca Brewton.

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Petigru family.

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Alston, Emma Clara Pringle, 1803-1889.

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Allston family.

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