Search

Search Constraints

Start Over You searched for: Collection Ball Family Papers, 1631-1895 ✖Remove constraint Collection: Ball Family Papers, 1631-1895 Contributing Institution South Carolina Historical Society ✖Remove constraint Contributing Institution: South Carolina Historical Society Date 1816 ✖Remove constraint Date: 1816 Media Type Newspapers ✖Remove constraint Media Type: Newspapers

Search Results

1. Newspaper Clipping on Articles of Agreement for a Plantation Overseer, 1816

Newspaper Clipping on Articles of Agreement for a Plantation Overseer, 1816
Date:
1816
Description:
A newspaper clipping on articles of agreement for a plantation overseer "from an old Virginia Paper." The agreement includes that the overseer is not "the master" of the employer, is not to spend more than one half of his time at "court-houses or elsewhere, or on pleasure, at horse-races, cock-fights, barbecues," and is given one-tenth of the plantation crops.

Limit your search