James Hopkinson papers, 1847-1917.

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James Hopkinson papers, 1847-1917.

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Chiefly plantation, business, and legal correspondence re estate of John Berwick Legare, planter of Edisto Island, S.C.; including 20 volumes, 1846-1883, Edisto Island, S.C., chiefly plantation account books and journals re crop yields, repairs, expenditures, weather conditions, slave records, and social events; executor's account book, 1857-1861, re estate of J.B. Legare; receipts, 24 Nov. 1856-2 July 1959, Charleston, S.C., to J.B. Legare's estate, re household goods, taxes, legal records, and clothing. Letter, 21 Dec. 1861, U.S. Steamer Pawnee, Port Royal, S.C., P. Drayton, to S[amuel] F[rancis] DuPont, re naval operations and capture of cotton; letter, 23 Dec. 1861, Flag Ship Wabash, Port Royal, S.C., S.F. DuPont to Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, re cotton captured by Drayton; letter, 31 Jan. 1862, Navy Department, Gideon Welles, to James S. Chambers, Navy Agent, Philadelphia, Pa., re delivery of captured cotton. Letter, 26 Jan. 1866, U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, Charleston, S.C., O[liver] O[tis] Howard, re restoring plantation on Wadmalaw Island, S.C., now occupied by freedmen, to Count Ferdinand de Lasteyrie; letter, 24 Apr. 1866, Rockville, S.C., J.E. Cornelius, to Maj. H.W. Smith, Charleston, S.C., re distribution of seized land to freedmen, establishment of a school for African-American children, and restoration of seized land to former owners. Letter, 15 Nov. 1872, Charleston, S.C., Wilmot Gibbes DeSaussure, to James Hopkinson, Edisto, S.C., re lawsuit, court ruling, settlement amounts, and continuance; letter, Dec. 1872, Charleston, S.C., Whaley and Mitchell [firm] to James Hopkinson, re payment of James Hopkinson's account.

402 items and 20 v.

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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Lawyer of Charleston County, S.C. From the description of James Hopkinson papers, 1847-1917. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 41963032 ...

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