James Louis Petigru papers, 1816-1863.

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James Louis Petigru papers, 1816-1863.

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Papers consist of personal, official, and business correspondence, financial records including bonds, receipts, and accounts, slave records, genealogical research notes and transcriptions, and other materials. Correspondence concerns personal matters, legal clients' affairs, slaves, the transport of slaves to Liberia, and other matters. Correspondence (1859-1860) between James L. Petigru and Dr. James Moultrie concern a mulatto child's father. One letter (1862) from James L. Petigru discusses his Union sympathies. Other materials include a deed for a church pew, a law practice commission, a citizens' petition regarding unlawfully emancipated slaves, and estate papers of James L. Petigru. Slave records include slave lists and a bill of sale. Genealogical materials consist of abstracts of correspondence, transcriptions of documents from the British Public Record Office, correspondence with individuals in Great Britain, and other items pertaining to the Gibert and Boutiton families and other Huguenot families who settled at New Bordeaux (S.C.).

ca. 175 items.

South Carolina Historical Society

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Moultrie, James, Jr., 1793-1869

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Gibert family.

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Petigru, James Louis, 1789-1863

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Lawyer of Charleston, S.C.; Union Party supporter and opponent of nullification and secession; Attorney General of S.C., 1822-1830; unsuccessful Unionist candidate for the S.C. Senate, 1830; code commissioner, 1859-1863; graduate, S.C. College, 1809; son of William Pettigrew (1758-1837) and Louise Guy Gibert Pettigrew; husband of Jane Amelia Postell; father of artist Caroline Petigru Carson (b. 1820-1892). From the description of James Louis Petigru papers, 1822-1948. (University of ...

Boutition family.

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