Summer family papers, 1753-1937.

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Summer family. Summer family papers, 1753-1937.

Summer family papers, 1753-1937.

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Real estate papers, letters, accounts, receipts, and diplomas relate to several generations of the Summer, Dreher, Efird, and Mayer families of the Dutch Fork region of South Carolina. Land documents for the jurisdictions formerly known as the S.C. Districts of Newberry, Lexington, Greenville, and "Camden District," including grant for 300 acres issued to John Adam Summer in 1772 (located in present day Newberry and Lexington Counties); land grant, 2 July 1787, transferring 40 acres of land from Thomas Pinckey to Christian Ruff.; and 19th-century account books documenting sales of fruit trees, ornamentals, and other garden plants during antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction years. A total of five generations of the Summer family are represented in the collection, including the above mentioned John Adam Summer (1716-1796). One of his sons, Nicholas Summer (1754-1781), expanded the family's holdings in the Dutch Fork with the purchase of fifty additional acres of land in 1777 from John Kunth. By 1804, his eldest son and namesake, John Adam Summer (1744-1809), had acquired enough land in Lexington District, S.C., to convey five hundred forty acres to his daughter Eve Margaret Summer (b. 1775) and her husband, John Benedict Mayer (1761-1817). Persons mentioned in the collection include Adam Geiselhardt Summer, William Summer, John Summer, Andrew Summer, John Adam Summer, John Miller, John Montz, Mathias Sheeley, and Nicholous Prister; account book, 1844-1852, documenting records of Ravenscroft Steam Mills, a lumber and saw mill; account book, 1852-1853, of Adam Geiselhardt Summer, re lumber supplied by Ravenscroft Steam Mill to Laurens Rail Road Company and Greenville and Columbia Railroad Company. Account book, 1859-1861, of William Summer, of records from his Pomaria Nurseries, Pomaria Plantation, Newberry District, S.C., including accounts with William Gilmore Simms, Mrs. Benjamin F. Perry, William Waters Boyce, Orlando Benedict Mayer, Frank Hampton, William Gregg, Stephen Elliott, James Henry Hammond, John Caldwell Calhoun, and James Lawrence Orr; and unbound account book, 1861-1866, of William Summer listing sales of friut and ornamental trees at Pomaria Nursery (239 pp.). Pomaria Nursury account book (1861-1863, 1875, 1878-1879) kepty by William Summer, recording sales of fruit, ornamental shrubs, annuals and other plants to customers in Columbia, S.C., during early years of Civil War, expenses for hire of horses, lumber, nails, and other materials for construction of buildings, entries recorded during 1879 list clients in Charleston, Lexington, Greenville, and elsewhere in South Carolina; businesses represented include Summer and Berholz Nursery in Columbia, S.C., the firm of Efird and Summer, and the Pomaria Nursery [oversize volume; stored off-site];

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