Land papers and other items, 1916-1949, added to the J.S. Billings papers document his title to Redcliffe plantation in Aiken County, S.C. In 1935, Billings, a great-grandson of Redcliffe's builder Gov. James Henry Hammond, bought the property from his uncle Henry Cumming Hammond (1868-1961). Two central documents in this group that secured Billings' title to the Redcliffe property are the 1 Apr. 1935 deed and mortgage between John Shaw Billings and Henry C. Hammond. Later that year, Billings added three acres to the property, and acquired additional parcels of land in 1943, when a highway relocation project shifted some small tracts to the side of the road adjoining Redcliffe. Four of the items in the collection are deeds pertaining to these transactions. Finally, in 1949, Henry C. Hammond drew up a "satisfaction" confirming that the mortgage had been paid off.
