Papers of the Moore and Gillespie families, 1800-1893 bulk, 1817-1869.

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Papers of the Moore and Gillespie families, 1800-1893 bulk, 1817-1869.

Papers of the Moore and Gillespie families, 1800-1893 bulk, 1817-1869.

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Chiefly correspondence, land papers, receipts, lawyer's notes, bank stock certificates, and speeches from Cheraw, S.C., Chesterfield District, S.C., Baltimore, Md., and Larne, Northern Ireland; topics include immigration of Moore family to the U.S., conditions in Ireland, and life in Chesterfield District, S.C. Including receipt, 1813, Maj. James Gillespie's for yearly taxes; 2 letters, 8 Feb. 1817 and 30 Apr. 1817, Larne, N. Ireland, John Lough, to Thomas Moore, Baltimore, Md., re business failures, declining land values, inflation, unemployment, names of families considering emigration to the U.S., inability to collect money owed to T. Moore for his work as a watchmaker, and arrest and declining health of David Moore. Letter, 5 May 1817, Orwigsburg, Pa., James W. Henry, to Thomas Moore, Baltimore, Md., re Ireland's politics, taxation, and anticipated reforms; letter, 31 July 1817, Larne, Ireland, John Lough, to Thomas Moore, Baltimore, Md., re sale of T. Moore's estate, economic opportunities, possible emigration to the U.S., friends who settled in S.C., and religious beliefs; letter, 17 Sept. 1818, Ballywillon, Ireland, David Moore, to Thomas Moore, Union Factory, Charleston, S.C., re death of Uncle John Moore; 4 receipts for slaves, 5 Oct. 1827-16 Jan. 1850, Chesterfield District, S.C., including names and ages. Deed, 24 Apr. 1829, Marlborough District, S.C., re James Gillespie's estate; receipt, 1 Nov. 1858, Chester, S.C., for monthly hire of Hannah, a slave; land deed, 11 June 1859, Chesterfield District, S.C., for sale of 500 acres from Murdoch MacLean to Robert Kendall; letter, 30 Nov. 1866, Jackson, Tenn., James J. Kelly, to Henry T. Moore, Cheraw, S.C., re impact of Union victory, cotton purchases, starting a business, and collection of debts owed him. Letter, 19 Aug. 1867, Charleston, S.C., J.M. Bradstreet and Son, to Henry T. Moore, re becoming their purchasing agent in Cheraw, S.C.; letter, 19 Aug. 1867, Byhalia Plantation, Marshall County, Miss., James J. Kelly, to Henry T. Moore, Cheraw, S.C., re Moore's efforts to collect debts owed him in S.C., business failures in Tenn., and farming corn and cotton with a freedwoman; and marriage settlement, 13 Apr. 1868, Marlboro District, S.C., between Alexander A. Pollock and Rebecca J. Harrington. Undated anonymous speech re free school system; undated speech re elections and electioneering; and 2 undated speeches to the Euphradian Society [by Francis Samuel Gillespie?] re republicanism and political corruption; undated letter, Samuel D. Sanders, to Moore and Cash, transferring ownership of Candis, an African-American slave, and her three children Joe, Mary Jane, and Julia, to his brother Thomas G. Sanders.

104 items.

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