Adele Petigru Allston papers, 1830-1898.

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Adele Petigru Allston papers, 1830-1898.

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Papers consist mainly of business and personal correspondence of Adele Petigru Allston, but also include her diaries, financial records, journals, notes, school papers of students, and an advertisement and account book (1866-1868) for Mrs. R.F.W. Allston's Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies. Factors' letters (1877-1898) to Allston are from Lachicotte & Sons, and others, and concern rice sales, milling, and planting. Personal correspondence is primarily with family members and concerns family and social matters, plantation life, servants, travels, the Civil War, financial concerns, education, the bombardment of Ft. Sumter (1861), and other matters. Correspondents include Benjamin Allston (1833-1900), Charles Petigru Allston (1848-1922), Adele Allston Vanderhorst (1840-1915), Robert F.W. Allston (1801-1864), James Louis Petigru (1789-1863), Elizabeth F. Blyth, Harriet Lesesne (d.1877), Jane G. North, Emily Weston, and Jane Louise Allston Hill (1850-1937).

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Lachicotte & Sons.

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Allston family.

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Vanderhorst, Adele Allston, d. 1915

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Daughter of Robert F.W. Allston (1801-1864) and Adele Petigru Allston. In 1863 she married Arnoldus Vanderhorst (1835-1881). Their children included Adele Petigru Vanderhorst (who married Mazyck P. Ravenel), Anna Morris Vanderhorst (who married Henry W. Conner), Elizabeth Vanderhorst (who married William Weston), Arnoldus Vanderhorst (1877-1944), and Robert Vanderhorst (1879-1904). From the description of Adele Allston Vanderhorst papers, 1859-1930. (The South Carolina Historical Soc...

Lesesne, Harriet Louise Petigru, d. 1877.

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Allston, Robert F. W. (Robert Francis Withers), 1801-1864

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Robert F. W. Allston was a rice planter and civil engineer; surveyor general of South Carolina, 1823; member of the General Assembly, 1828-1832; state senator, 1832-1856; and governor, 1856-1858. From the description of Robert F. W. Allston letter, 1843 September 5. WorldCat record id: 22758135 Georgetown County, South Carolina plantation owner and politician. He graduated from West Point in 1821, leaving the army in 1822. Allston lived at Matanzas Plantation, later called C...

Weston, Emily.

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Allston, Benjamin, 1833-1900.

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Confederate officer and Protestant Episcopal minister, of Charleston, S.C. From the description of Papers, 1856-1878. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19104969 Georgetown, South Carolina plantation owner, Episocpal minister, and army officer. Benjamin Allston attended West Point and served as a colonel in the Confederate States of America Army. He was the son of Robert F.W. Allston (1801-1864) and Adele Petigru Allston (1810-1896). Charles Petigru Allston (1848...

North, Jane G.

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Hill, Jane Louise Allston.

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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...

Alston family.

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Blyth, Elizabeth Frances Allston, d. 1840.

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Allston, Charles Petigru, 1848-1922.

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Charles Petigru Allston was the son of Georgetown County, S.C. plantation owner and politician Robert F.W. Allston (1801-1864), whose other children included Adele Allston Vanderhorst, Benjamin Allston (1833-1900), Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle (1845-1921), and Jane Louise Allston Hill. From the description of Charles Petigru Allston letters, 1860-1897. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 35953277 ...