Samuel Mathis papers, 1781-1901.

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Samuel Mathis papers, 1781-1901.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42576030

Chiefly land documents and personal accounts of the American Revolution; also including unbound plantation journal, 1781, Camden District, S.C. [in legal size folder], re daily activities, planting, traveling with Francis Marion, account of British defeat, and details of Mathis' internment as prisoner of war at Charleston, S.C., and parole to Camden, S.C. Also including indenture, 1 June 1795, Camden District, S.C., for land belonging to estate of William Kershaw, purchased by Samuel Mathis; transfer of title, 20 Feb. 1812, Camden District, S.C., to Henry Hinson Dickson, for land near Camden, S.C.; 2 copies of volume, 26 June 1819, facsimile printing of a letter to Gen. William Richardson Davie, re Battle of Camden; and letter, 14 Nov. 1901, Camden, S.C., from R.M. Kennedy, to Mrs. D.A. Caton, Cheraw, S.C., re appreciation for sending Mathis' Revolutionary War diary.

3 items and 3 v.

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7450526

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Marion, Francis, 1732-1795

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Francis Marion organized his brigade of South Carolina militia late in 1780. From the description of Orderly book of Marion's Brigade of South Carolina militia, 1781, Feb. 16 - 1782, Dec. 15. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122560055 General Marion is known as the "Swamp Fox" since he based his guerrilla operations in the South Carolina low country. From the description of ALS, 1781 May 29 : Georgetown, to Major ...

Davie, William Richardson, 1756-1820

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William Richardson Davie (1756-1820) was a lawyer, state legislator, Revolutionary officer, member of the United States Constitutional Convention, Federalist governor of North Carolina, and peace commissioner to France, and was influential in the founding of the University of North Carolina. He moved from Halifax County, N.C., to Lancaster District, S.C., in 1805. From the guide to the William Richardson Davie Papers, 1758-1819, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. ...

Mathis, Samuel, 1760-1823.

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Planter of Camden District, S.C.; son of Daniel Mathis and Sophia Gauntl Mathis; brother-in-law of Col. Joseph Kershaw (ca. 1727-1791); prisoner of war during Revolutionary War. From the description of Samuel Mathis papers, 1781-1901. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 42576030 ...

Kennedy, R. M.

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Kershaw, William

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Dickinson, Henry B.

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