Williams Middleton papers, 1847-1888.

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Williams Middleton papers, 1847-1888.

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Chiefly correspondence re settlement of Middleton family estates, letters of Williams Middleton to his wife re Civil War activities, slave laborers, fortification of Charleston Harbor, S.C.; also including correspondence of B.T. Sellers, overseer for Middleton's rice plantations. Letters, 1862-1865, Charleston, S.C., Williams Middleton, to his wife Sue Middleton, Columbia, S.C., re fortification of Charleston, by [P.G.T.] Beauregard, attack on Fort Sumter, sinking of the Hunley submarine, Confederate Engineering Dept., and relocation of slaves; letter, 9 Jan. 1855, Philadelphia, Pa., J. Francis Fisher, to Williams Middleton, re estate of Arthur Middleton, politics and finances. Letter, 27 July 1858, from B.T. Sellers, re rice, and death of a slave by drowning; 6 letters, 2 Nov. 1859-25 Dec. 1863, from B.T. Sellers, re plantation news, selling crops, runaway and insubordinate slaves, and death and illness among slaves; letter, 11 Oct. 1864, Darlington, S.C., John Izard Middleton, to W. Middleton, Summerville, S.C., re runaway slave; letter, 11 Mar. 1865, Society Hill, S.C., Emma Smith Pringle, to Sue Middleton, re burning of Middleton Place Plantation, Charleston, S.C. Letter, 27 Aug. 1868, Philadelphia, Henry Middleton to Williams Middleton, re social activities, phosphates, and potential for race war in South Carolina; letter, 4 July 1874, Madison, Wis., Lyman C. Draper, to Williams Middleton, re Revolutionary War information from Middleton family papers re James Madison's proposal to abandon the Carolinas and Georgia to the British.

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Planter of Charleston and Beaufort County, S.C.; member of Secession Convention, 1860-1862; son of Gov. Henry Middleton (1770-1846) and Mary Helen Hering Middleton (d.1850); one of twelve children, including brothers Henry Middleton (1797-1876), Arthur Middleton (1795-1853), and John Izard Middleton (1800-1877; husband of Susan Pringle Middleton (d.1900); father of Henry Middleton (b.1851) and Elizabeth Middleton Heyward. From the description of Williams Middleton papers, 1847-1888. ...

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