Cotton factor records, 1870-1914 [microform].

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Cotton factor records, 1870-1914 [microform].

Letterpress copy book, 1870-1914, consisting of business and financial records of a firm buying and selling cotton and rice in Charleston, S.C.; this business operated by Robert Dewar Bacot, and later by Daniel Huger Bacot. Accounts record values and weight of bales of both sea island and upland cotton; final portion of volume used as a letterbook, apparently for both business and some family correspondence.

1 v. (1 roll microfim)

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Bacot family.

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Bacot, Daniel Huger, 1847-1920.

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Charleston, S.C. merchant and South Carolina state militia officer. Daniel Huger Bacot was the son of Robert Dewar Bacot (1821-1903). He married Josephine Rhett, daughter of Robert Barnwell Rhett II (1828-1905), in 1888. From the description of Daniel Huger Bacot papers, 1948-1905. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 35923192 ...

Bacot, Robert Dewar, 1821-1903.

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Charleston, South Carolina cotton broker and rice plantation owner. The son of Thomas Wright Bacot (1795-1851) and Harriett Susannah Wainwright, Robert Dewar Bacot was president of the Phoenix Fire Engine Company, a volunteer firefighting company, and captain of the Phoenix Rifles, a volunteer militia unit raised just before the outbreak of the Civil War. He married Julia Amanda Huger (b. 1825) in 1843, and their children were: Thomas Wright Bacot (1849-1927), Julius Motte Bacot (1859-1899), Dan...