Peter Samuel Bacot papers, 1757-1946.

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Peter Samuel Bacot papers, 1757-1946.

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Consisting of family and business correspondence, land documents, promissory notes, wills, business accounts, receipts, plantation records, slave records, estate settlements, and Screven family papers; including document, 26 Mar. 1772, re appraisal of Hannah Screven's estate; letter, 12 Aug. 1832, Tallahassee, Fla., from Robert F. Charles, re traveling to Florida and urging P.S. Bacot to work for nullification. Broadside, Dec. 1832, "Address to the People of the United States by the Convention of South Carolina," re nullification; letter, 8 July 1836, Dover, Tenn., from William Harrison Scarborough, re painting portraits of Bacot family members of Charleston, S.C.; letter, 12 Jan. 1841, Mount Meigs, Ala., from R.F. Charles, re slavery, politics and government, and [John Caldwell] Calhoun's sub-treasury system. Letter, 14 Apr. 1861, Charleston, S.C., from P.S. Bacot, to his daughter, re bombardment and evacuation of Fort Sumter, S.C.; letter, 2 June 1862, Jackson, Miss., from F.T. Chew, re traveling from New Orleans to his ironclad ship "Louisiana," description of this ironclad vessel, battle experiences, General [Benjamin Franklin] Butler's actions in New Orleans. Also including 20 volumes, 1792-1842, Darlington County, S.C., chiefly pocket memorandum books including eleven plantation account books listing births and deaths of African-American slaves identified by name, agreements with overseers, medical accounts, and miscellaneous entries re plantation operations. Three plantation account books, 1843-1860; business account book, 1879-1887; receipt book, 1760-1851, listing births and deaths of slaves identified by name, and records of horses and foaled; receipt book, 1760-1851, re births and deaths of slaves identified by name; business account book, 1879-1887. Bacot's travel diary, 1824-1831, describing his five trips to Europe; and Bacot's diary, 1850; notebook, 1863-1865, Charleston, S.C., and Kinston, N.C., of Richard H[ays] Bacot, documenting personnel and social activities in Confederate Navy including pictures and sketches of vessels.

1560 items and 20 volumes.

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7449831

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Chew, F. T.

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Charles, Robert F.

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Confederate States of America. Navy

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Built in Philadelphia as the Habana, the CSS Sumter was originally used as a blockade runner in New Orleans. In 1861, she was purchased for use by the Confederate Government. Under the command of Raphael Semmes, she captured a number of Union flag merchant ships off the coasts of Cuba and South America, as well as other locations in the western hemisphere. When her boilers became unfit for use and repairs and supplies could not be obtained, she was sold at public auction at Gibraltar on December...

Scarborough, William Harrison (American painter, 1812-1871)

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William E. Scarborough is a retired Navy captain who has researched and written about the Batson Aero Yacht project. The Batson Aero Yacht was the inspiration of Matthew A. Batson (1866-1917) of Anna, Illinois, a retired Army captain. In 1912, Batson came up with a design for an aircraft that he envisioned could hold ten men and fuel for several days, fly at a speed of 100 m.p.h., and make transatlantic flights to Liverpool, England. He then formed the Batson Air Navigation Company and relocated...

Screven, Hannah

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Bacot, Richard Hays.

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Bacot family.

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Screven family.

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Louisiana (Ship)

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Whaling vessel, out of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by John A. Kelley; owner-agent: T. & A.R. Nye. From the description of Log/journal, 1858 Aug. 3-1863 Oct. 11. (Nantucket Hist Association). WorldCat record id: 71012823 Whaling vessel, out of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by John A. Kelley, on voyage from 3 Aug. 1858-11 Oct. 1863, to the Galapagos, Off Shore, On Shore, and Callao whaling grounds; agent-owner: T. and A.R. Nye; built at Philadelphia, Pa., 1827. ...

South Carolina. Convention (1832-1833)

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Bacot, Peter Samuel, 1810-1864.

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Planter, of Darlington District, S.C.; founding member, 1846, Darlington District Agricultural Society; son of Peter Hamilton Bacot and Hannah Mason Bacot; husband of Anna Jane White Bacot; father of Ada White Bacot Clarke (1832-1911), Jacqueline Menissier Shaw Bacot Saunders, Dr. Peter Brockington Bacot, Tours Leire Bacot, Richard Hays Bacot, and A. Jane White Bacot. From the description of Peter Samuel Bacot papers, 1757-1946. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 424...