Papers of the Read and Lance families, 1677-1907.

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Papers of the Read and Lance families, 1677-1907.

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Chiefly consisting of plantation records, re land, bonds, mortgages, indentures; bills and receipts for taxes; plantation supplies; blacksmiths; and purchase and sale of slaves; receipts from Winyah Indigo Society for dues; settlement of estates of John Mann Taylor, John G. Lance, and Maurice Harvey Lance; bills to pay laborers at Wedgefield Plantation; and legal correspondence of Walter Hazard, James L[ouis] Petigru, James Simons and law firms of Petigru and Lessene, and Rutledge and Young. Including letter, 1 Dec. 1753, Charleston, S.C., Elizabeth Laroche, to John Mall, requesting that funeral costs of her cousin, Charlotte Lewis, to be included in expenses of estate. Roster, 26 Dec. 1861, listing officers and privates of the Pee Dee Home Guard who volunteered for 12 month muster into Confederate service for local defense; commission, 24 June 1864, Richmond, Va., issued to J[ames] H[arleston] Read as major in the 21st S.C. Regiment; letter, 26 Aug. 1865, Aiken, S.C., Andrew McDowall, to Reverend M.H. Lance, re disasters of the war. Two letters, 24 Dec. 1866, Charleston, S.C., James Simons, to J.H. Read, re copy of his father's will, serving as executor of the estate, a trust for Reads' mother, securing money for planting purposes, and recommendations on planting and labor; labor agreement, 20 Apr.1868, A. Morgan and M.H. Lance, for planting on shares including a lien on a crop; account, 2 Jan. 1869, J.H. Read, listing 1868 crop statement for Wedgefield Plantation, reckoning amount received by each worker, and fines deducted. Premiere issue of newspaper, 11 July 1888 (Vol. 1, No. 1) of the Plantersville Gathered Scraps, a community newspaper; contract, 26 Dec. 1907, between J.H. Read and Daniel A. Hooks, contracting Hooks to reside on the Maryville Plantation, and work for J.H. Read; undated documents include plans of Palmetto Tram Way and Steam Mill Company including organizational objectives, and company dealings in lumber and naval stores; draft of amendment to establish ferry service on Sampit River in Georgetown County, S.C. Volumes include journal, 1850-1858, re weather, plantation activities, crop yields, and travel; letter book, 1867-1882, J.H. Read, re religious writings, plantation production, and accounts, 1870-1874, for M.H. Lance estate; volume, 1845-1861, re rice crop statistics, planting cycles, yields, and sales; record of laborers, 1852-1860 and 1867-1869, identifying African Americans by name, age, sex, occupation, and supplies received at Mauricena Plantation (Orangeburg, S.C.) and elsewhere during antebellum and Reconstruction eras.

1,350 items and 6 volumes.

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Lance family.

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Read, James Harleston

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Palmetto Tram Way and Steam Mill Company.

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Lance, Maurice Harvey, 1793-1870

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Taylor, John Mann

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Hazard, Walter, 1859-1930

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Winyah Indigo Society

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Agricultural and social club of Georgetown, S.C.; founded Mar. 1755; incorporated in 1757, for the purpose of erecting a free school at Georgetown, S.C.; by 1799, the Society sponsored the organization of the Georgetown Library Society, a group tasked with purchasing books and securing newspapers and gazettes from London and as well as centers of trade in the United States such as Boston, New York, Richmond, and Savannah. From the description of Records, 1788-1918. (University of Sou...

Simons, James, 1813-1879

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Attorney, legislator, and militia general of Charleston, S.C.; Simons was serving as speaker of the S.C. House in the legislature when the Civil War began; during the war, he served as brigadier general of the South Carolina Militia Fourth Infantry Brigade. After the war, he and his son, James, Jr. (1839-1919) practiced law in Charleston as Simons and Simons. From the description of James Simons papers, 1860 Mar. 19 - 1874 Feb. 3. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 7...

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 ...

King, Mitchell, 1783-1862

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Born in Scotland, Mitchell King arrived in Charleston, South Carolina in 1805. In 1806 King became an assistant teacher at the College of Charleston. Interested in studying law, King began studies at the office of George Warren Cross in 1807. King was temporarily appointed principal of the College of Charleston in 1810. King chose, however, to continue his study of law when he was offered the position permanently. Admitted to the bar in 1810, King immediately opened his own practice. He was elec...

LaRoche, Elizabeth

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Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 21st

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Read family.

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