William H. Gilliland papers, 1800-1893.

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Gilliland, William H., 1788-1868. William H. Gilliland papers, 1800-1893.

William H. Gilliland papers, 1800-1893.

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Chiefly receipts re household expenses, including rental of a Charleston house, and payments for construction of a home on Sullivan's Island, school tuition, pew rent, taxes, doctor's bills, and wages for white and African-American workers. Three account books, 1844-1853, 1847-1849, and 1853-1855, re business transactions, household expenses, and cost of construction of home on Sullivan's Island; legal agreement, 1852, between W.H. Gilliland and H.R. Stafford, re specifications for building Gilliland's house at Sullivan's Island, S.C.; letter, 12 Sept. 1854, from Alfred Holmes, Edisto Island, S.C., re a business transaction and explaining that he and Mr. Seabrook "would have been down before this, but for the bad accounts we have had of the progress of yellow fever"; receipt, 26 Dec. 1855, re payments to H.R. Stafford for construction of house at Sullivan's Island; letter, 26 July 1858, from J.S. Clarkson of Charleston, agreeing to paint his house and specifying how the work was to be done. Earlier items include will, 13 Aug. 1834, of Margaret McLean and memorandum, 1834-1851, for McLean's estate; letter, Aug. 1849, from John Kreps, a silversmith of Sailor's Edge (Edgefield District, S.C.), thanking Gilliland for sending Kreps "Spectacles" and a German silver case, reporting that he had ordered unworked sheets of "German silver" for his business, requesting Gilliland to assist in mailing it due to his suspicions about local employees of the post office: "the Clerks in the Post Office are not to be trusted, for they... are not selected for Character and honesty but for Political Rascality and Rowdyism," discussing his family situation with three sons farming his property but all wanting land for themselves. Other papers of W.H. Gilliland include receipt, 2 Jan. 1858, for construction of a "Seirvant coffin"; account, 5 Jan. - 31 Dec. 1858, with Francis S. Mark for cutting hair; printed report, 20 Mar. 1858, to stockholders of Palmetto Building and Loan Association stockholders; receipt, 1 Feb. 1859, for payment to Carolina Art Association; receipt, 8 Aug. 1859, Moultrieville, S.C., for payment of $12.00 fine for "default of road duty"; receipt for payment of E.B. Gillilland's tuition during the term, 1 Jan. - 1 Apr. 1861, at High School of Charleston; letter, 22 Nov. 1865, Graniteville, S.C., re Graniteville Manufacturing Company's 5% dividend report; undated antebellum receipt, for "6 days maintenance" to fund the incarceration of African American slaves, "Nancy" and "Margaret," in the Charleston jail.

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