Chiefly verbatim text of notices for plantation properties and slaves dating to Colonial era, Revolutionary War, and early national period. Large-format note cards arranged by George D. Terry in 11 card file boxes with typewritten and handwritten research notes from South Carolina sources and related colonial era newspapers as well as state public records. Research findings based on these files appeared as part of George D. Terry's doctoral dissertation (University of South Carolina, 1981), "Champagne Country": a Social History of an Eighteenth Century Lowcountry Parish in South Carolina, St. John's Berkeley County, and later published as, "Dying in Paradise: Perception and Reality in Colonial South Carolina," Journal of Southern History, vol. 50 (1986): 533-550. by H. Roy Merrens and George D. Terry. Card file boxes labeled: Plantation Newspaper Descriptions (4 boxes), 1732-1750, 1751-1803, 1803-1808, 1809- ; South Carolina Gazette Runaways (1 box), 1766-1780; Land and Slave Transactions (1 box), 1809-1815; Miscellaneous Inventories of the State (2 boxes); Service Centers and Material Consumption (1 box); Charleston Courier (1 box); unlabeled (1 box).
