Elizabeth W. Allston Pringle family papers, 1861-1926.

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Elizabeth W. Allston Pringle family papers, 1861-1926.

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Collection contains personal and family correspondence, diaries, plantation account books, manuscripts, photographs, and other items. Pringle's correspondence is with members of the Pringle, Vanderhorst, and Allston families as well as other relatives and friends, and discusses subjects such as social and family matters, household expenses, rice planting and other plantation affairs, Pringle's writings, taxes, and other concerns. Collection also contains other Allston family correspondence, including letters of condolence on the death of John Julius Pringle. Journals and diaries (1861-1920) concern family matters, personal finances, the Civil War, plantation life and work, and daily and social events. Much of the diary material was used as the basis for Pringle's books, A Woman Rice Planter, and Chronicles of Chicora Wood. Plantation account and time books (1864-1915) of Elizabeth W.A. Pringle and her mother Adele P. Allston are for White House, Chicora Wood, and other plantations, and contain rice planting and milling accounts, as well as accounts for labor and household expenses. Manuscripts include both holograph and typewritten manuscripts of A Woman Rice Planter (partial), Chronicles of Chicora Wood, and various unpublished writings. Other items include the journal and expense accounts (1890-1892) of Pringle's sister Jane Allston Hill, journals and other papers concerning the Mt. Vernon Ladies' Association, and photographs of Chicora Wood Plantation and Allston family members.

6.5 linear ft.

South Carolina Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7375816

South Carolina Historical Society

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Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union

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The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union was founded in 1853 by Ann Pamela Cunningham. The purpose of the Association was to purchase Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, in order to restore the property and open the grounds to visitors and admirers who desired to see Washington's house and tomb. Ann Pamela Cunningham became interested in the preservation of Mount Vernon when her mother, traveling down the Potomac River in 1853, saw the house in its neglected and dilapidated sta...

Hill, Jane Louise Allston.

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Allston family.

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Pringle family.

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Pennington, Patience.

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Pringle, John Julius, 1842-1876.

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Alston family.

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Pringle, Elizabeth W. Allston (Elizabeth Waties Allston), 1845-1921

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Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle (1845-1921) was the daughter of South Carolina Governor Robert F.W. Allston (1801-1864). She married John Julius Pringle (1842-1876) in 1870 and lived at White House Plantation (S.C). She became a widow at the age of thirty-one and moved to the Allston family plantation, Chicora Wood, to help her mother, Adele P. Allston, care for her widowed brother's children. She was the author of "A Woman Rice Planter" and "Chronicles of Chicora Wood" and she wrote under the ...

Allston, Adele Petigru, 1810-1896.

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Georgetown County, South Carolina plantation owner and school proprietor; sister of James Louis Petigru (1789-1863). Adele Petigru Allston was the wife of Robert F.W. Allston (1801-1864), and their children, among others, included Benjamin Allston (1833-1900), Charles Petigru Allston (1848-1920), Adele Allston (d. 1915), who married Arnoldus Vanderhorst (1835-1881), and Jane Louise Allston (1850-1937), who married Charles Albert Hill. From the description of Adele Petigru Allston pap...