Johnstone family papers, 1803-1979.

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Johnstone family papers, 1803-1979.

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Chiefly consisting of bills, receipts, legal papers; correspondence of Mary Barnwell Johnstone, and family correspondence re organization and activities of the Transylvania Volunteers [of N.C.] in the Civil War, Francis W. Johnstone's trip to the Bahamas and reports on agricultural conditions in S.C. and N.C.; contract, 3 Oct. 1803, Buncombe County, N.C., for sale of land on French Broad River from Lambert Clayton to Nathaniel Johnson. Including letters, 1845-1868, of M.B. Johnstone, Greenville, S.C., and Flat Rock, N.C., re economic hardships, education, social activities, African-American slaves, freedmen, C[hristopher] G[ustave] Memminger, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and Tom Arthur; volume of photocopied correspondence, 1845-1869; royal order, 4 Sept. 1867, requiring that all officials of the British government provide any assistance necessary to Francis W. Johnstone during his examination of agriculture and cultivation on the Bahama Islands. Undated list from Beaumont Plantation, listing names and occupations of slaves; Registration certificate, 15 Sept. 1876, Terrebonne Parish, La.; volume, 1978, by James D[ecatur] Johnstone, "The Annandale Peerage Case," re genealogical listing of nobility of Annandale, Scotland, including photographs of Johnstone family members. Johnstone-Fraser genealogy, 1958, oversized genealogical chart from records of Isabel Fraser Johnstone, listing information about the Allston, Beadon, Cannon, Clarkson, Cutte, DeSaussure, Emms, Fraser, Gibbes, Grimke, Hyme, Harvey, Harris, Hackett, Jarvis, Johnstone, Loocock, Lewis, Lee, McPherson, Marbeuff, Mackewn, Massingberd, Pendarvis, Pinckney, Screven, Smith, Stobo, Tucker, Warner, and Winn families.

122 items and 3 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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Johnstone, Isabel Fraser, 1854-1932

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