Daniel Huger papers, 1772-1886.

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Daniel Huger papers, 1772-1886.

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Papers consist of personal and family correspondence, business and financial papers, legal documents, estate papers, and other items. Correspondence (1802-1836) of Daniel Huger, members of the Huger, Lance, and Bacot families, and others, concerns family and business matters, the education of Huger's daughters, life in Pendleton (S.C.), Methodist ministers, rural life, religion, and other subjects, and includes a typescript copy of a letter from the Marquis de Lafayette regarding St. Philip's (Episcopal) Church. Business papers (1798-1864) consist of receipt books, bills for slaves in workhouses, slave bills of sale, accounts (1811-1836) for rice sales and shipments, lists of cabinetmakers employed by Huger, and other items. Legal and official documents (1772-1841) include Huger's appointments as secretary to Governor John Drayton, notary public certificates, court orders, land grants, powers of attorney, and correspondence. There are also materials (1856-1886) concerning an estate dispute between Sarah H.H. Gibson, Mary E. Lowndes, and others. These pertain to the estates of Daniel Huger and William Henry Lowndes, and include a will, correspondence, bonds, receipts, and complaints and other legal documents.

ca. 510 items.

South Carolina Historical Society

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South Carolina Historical Society

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Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

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Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette was born at Chavaniac, Auvergne, in 1757, to an old, illustrious family of the provincial and military nobility. He lost both his parents early: his father was killed by the British at the Battle of Minden when Lafayette was two years old (1759), and when he was thirteen and attending the prestigious Collège de Plessis in Paris both his mother and grandfather died (1770). The latter's death left Lafayette with a si...

Huger family.

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Lowndes, Mary Esther, 1820-

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Lance family.

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Gibson, Sarah Harvey Huger.

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Lowndes, William Henry, d. 1865.

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Drayton, John, 1766-1822

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Planter, lawyer, author, artist, and botanist of Charleston County, S.C.; S.C. Governor, 1800-1802 and 1808-1810; S.C. Lieut. Governor, 1798-1800; member of S.C. Senate, 1804-1809; member of S.C. House, 1792-1795 and 1798-1799; son of William Henry Drayton (1742-1779) and Dorothy Golightly Drayton; husband of Hester Rose Tidyman Drayton (d. 1816); father of seven children. From the description of John Drayton papers, 1757-1943. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 4367...

Huger, Daniel, 1779-1858.

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Charleston, South Carolina attorney and South Carolina Secretary of State (1803-1807). Daniel Huger was the son of John Huger (1744-1804) and Charlotte Motte. In 1804 he married Sarah Louisa Lance, daughter of Col. Lambert Lance. Their children were: Julia Amanda Huger (d.1823), Charlotte Motte Huger (d. 1823), Sarah Harvey Huger, who married Dr. George Gibson, Daniel Huger (d. 1817), Elizabeth Huger (d. 1823), and Julia Amanda Huger, who married Robert Dewar Bacot (1821-1903). From ...

St. Philip's Church (Charleston, S.C.)

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Episcopal church. St. Philip's is the oldest church organization in Charleston, South Carolina. From the description of Petition to the Mayor and Aldermen of Charleston, S.C., 1878 June 4. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32144869 ...

Bacot family.

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