1850-1859, 1860-1869, 1840-1849, 1830-1839, 1800-1809, 1810-1819, and 1820-1829
Description:
The Record of Claremont Church, 1808-1865, is a bound volume that records lists of communicants, baptisms for infants and adults, burials for confederate soldiers and church members, confirmations and marriages performed. Each section includes entries for both enslaved people, freed persons, and white church members. The entries for enslaved people often include the names of their parents or mother, age, name of their slave owner or if they are free.
The Henry Ravenel Medical Book, 1816-1834 records medical visits and prescriptions for families and their slaves by physician Henry Ravenel. Families seeking medical treatment include Porcher, Dubois, Gaillard, Foxworth, Marion, Moore, Ravenel, Broughton and many others. Some of the diseases and injuries being treated are rheumatic diseases, fevers, fractures, kidney disease, a miscarriage, and an amputation on a child slave.
The Paul De St. Julien Ravenel Estate Book, 1829-1841 is an estate account book kept by Henry Ravenel for the estate of Paul D. Ravenel with pages on money received, spent or payments paid, including payments for the hiring of enslaved people. The last few pages of the book are lists of slaves, referenced by first name, and the number of sheets given out.
The Peter Gaillard Jr. Plantation Journal (1825-1851) is a bound volume written by Peter Gaillard Jr. and other members of the Gaillard family for Rocks Plantation. The volume consists of names of the enslaved people on the property as well as registers of births and deaths, statements and financial accounts related to the farming and selling of cotton as well as tax returns for the estate of S. Gaillard.
The Good Hope Plantation Account Book is a bound volume containg accounts of plantation finances and slaves at Good Hope Plantation which was inherited by Joseph Dulles from Ann Heatley Reid Lovell. Entries include the delivery of slaves to Augustus Marshall with the names and ages of each slave and other notations concerning to which states they were sent and occasionally dates of death. Also included are entries listing plantation stock, crops, and other goods, including the names of buyers and prices paid. Cash accounts recorded in the book include amounts paid for slaves and numerous goods. Other entries includes proceeds from plantation stock sales. Loose papers contain information about the amount of cotton produced, names of overseers and the names of slaves, their parents, births and death dates, ages and diseases. The names of the male slaves are listed as: Aaron, Abel, Abram, Adam, Alick, Amos, Anderson, Andrew, Asbury, Bedney, Beek, Benjamin, Biddy, Bill, Billy, Born, Boston, Burge, Caleb, Captain, Cato, Cesar, Chance, Charles, Christian, Clifton, Colin, Cuffee, D. Cyrus, Daniel, Dave, Derrill, Dick, Doctor, Edmund, Edward, Elijah, Ellison, Ephraim, Gabriel, Geofrey, George, Hal, Harry, Hector, Henry, Isaac, Ishmael, Israel, Jack, Jacob, Jake, James, Jaspar, Jeffrey, Jemmy, Jenkins, Jesse, Joe, John, Johnson, Jolly, Jonas, Joshua, Juliann, July, Junius, Lawrence, Leriel, Lewis, Lewy, Linus, Luke, Majin, Major, March, Marek, Mark, Marlbro, Matthew, Mattro, Mike, Minty, Moses, Myers, Nat, Nathan, Ness, Nestor, Paul, Peter, Peter, Primus, Prince, Prince, Reid, Reuty, Richard, Sabb, Sambo, Samuel, Sepio, Shadrach, Sharper, Shepherd, Simmons, Solomon, Stephen, Stepney, Sumter, Thisby, Timothy, Titus, Tom, Uriah, Washington and William. The names of the female slaves are listed as:Abby, Adeline, Affy, Amanda, Amelia, Anny, Beck, Bella, Bess, Betsy, Betty, Biddy, Bridget, Candace, Carolina, Caroline, Celena, Charity, Clara, Clarinda, Clarissa, Claudia, Cyrus, Daphne , Debby, Diana, Dolly, Down Country, Duck, Elisha, Eliza, Elizabeth, Elizza, Ellen, Elsey/Elsy, Emma,
Esther, Eve, Fanny, Fillis, Flora, Friday, Friendly, Gadsy, Georgiana, Gipsey, Hannah, Harriet, India, Jane, Jemima, Jenessa, Jenny, Julia, Juliana, June, Laura, Leah, Ledice, Lena, Leressa, Letetia, Lettice, Louisa, Lucy, Lycia, Lydia, March, Margaret, Maria, Mary, Mary Ann, Melia, Meta, Miley, Milly, Minta, Molly, Nancy, Nanny, Nelly, Ness, Paddy, Patty, Phebe, Phillis, Phoebe, Pidgeon, Polly, Puss, Rachel, Rebecca, Rina, Ritta, Rose, Rosilla, Roxana, Ruth, Sarah, Shannon, Sinda, Sophia, Summer, Susanna, Sylbia, Sylvia, Teresa, Titea and Violet.
