This document is an example of an American Seaman's Protection Certificate. In 1796, the Fourth U.S. Congress authorized Seamen's Protection Certificates (SPCs) to protect American merchant seamen from impressment into the British Navy. The British believed that they could force British seamen in port or on the high seas into service and it was common for them to impress any English-speaking sailors. The documents basically served as "merchant seamen's passports". The impressment of American seamen into service of the British Navy was one of the causes of the War of 1812. This SPC was issued to Samuel Pope on September 1, 1820, by Joseph Storer, Collector for the District of Kennebunk, Maine. Capt. Samuel Pope, who was born in Wells, Maine, in 1800-01, is believed to have moved to Horry District, South Carolina, in the 1830s, where in 1837 he and a partner, Henry Buck, purchased 432 acres on the Waccamaw River at Murdock Landing where they established "Pope's Mill," a steam-powered saw mill. He eventually sold his interest in "Pope's Mill," and Murdock Landing later became known as Bucksport. Capt. Pope moved upriver to the village of Conwayborough where he established a shipyard. In 1856 Capt. Samuel Pope was elected mayor, then called "intendent," of "Conwayboro." He died in 1863 and was buried in the old village burial ground beside Kingston Presbyterian Church, of which he was a founder, in what is now known as Conway, South Carolina.
1806, 1822, 1809, 1820, 1808, 1821, 1807, and 1810-1819
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The Day Book for Henry Ravenel Junior, Wood Ville, 1806-1822, is a book divided into two sections. The first section lists the names of slaves and their decedents, lists of purchased slaves with name, name of previous owner, date and price, and slaves who received shoes. The second half, which appears upside down, records family events, visits to the Pineville theatre, traveling, engagements, marriages, deaths, and attendance at the Jockey Club. Also included are entries about a hunting party to capture or kill fugitive slaves, the promise of emancipation for two female "mulatto" child slaves, and a trial over the body of a slave woman who was punished to death. This book contains a second use written upside-down and back to front.
A list of 157 enslaved persons divided by Friendfield and Point Plantation as well as adults, children and house people. The list, created for tax purposes, details which enslaved persons received clothes, blankets and shoes as well as jobs of specific enslaved persons.
Hand-colored etching depicting a sentimental contemplation of the moon. In German, the text reads : "Nicht weiss gesotten, nicht plettirt, / Und doch solch magnifiquer Schein! / Ach, mein Gemüth ist ganz gerührt / Er muss messiv von Silber seyn!" In English, the text reads : "Not blanched, not plated, / And yet such a magnifiscent gleam! Oh, my soul is deeply moved / It must be made of silver!"
Hand-colored etched caricature depicting a fantastical view of the sun. In German, the text reads : "Gotts Wunder, welcher Glanz und Schein / Das muss ep's rores von Vergilding seyn!" In English, the text reads : "God's wonders, which glimmer and shine / That must be something rare and gilt!"
Black-and-white stipple engraved portrait of naturalist and physician Marcus Elieser Bloch. From Dictionaire des sciences médicales, Volume 2, by Antoine Jacques Louis Jourdan, published Paris: C. L. F. Panckoucke.
Black-and-white engraved caricature depicting little Israel having swallowed a ducat. In German, the text reads : "Das kleine Israelchen bemerkt, wie sein Tate Baruch eine so große Liebe für das Gold hat. Der Knabe denkt: 'Es muß doch seyn ebbes delicates um einen Ducaten!' Er kommt über des Etten Casse, sieht Ducaten, nimmt, leckt und -- verschluckt einen! - 'O wai geschrien!' - Es wird Lärm in Hause; der Kremnitzer muss wider ins Tageslicht. Israelchen wird auf den Tisch gesetzt. Tate Baruch attaquirt in Front mit Rhabarber, während Memme Rachel mit Lavements in den Rücken fällt. Pefselche, Schmul und Löbche - der seinen neuen Rock aus alten Beinkleidern an hat - harren ängstlich der Wiedergeburt ihres R 5,30,, mehr werthen Bruders; und siehe, das Goldsöhnchen lässt sie nicht länger warten! In English, the text reads : "Little Israel notices what a great love father Baruch has for money. The boy thinks: 'There must be something delicious about a ducat!' He comes to the case, sees the ducats, takes one, licks and - swallows one! 'Oy vey!' he yells. Noise takes over the house; the coin must be brought to daylight again. Little Israel is placed onto the table. Father Baruch attacks him from the front with rhubarb, while Mother Rachel gives him an enema in the back. Pefselche, Schmul, and Löbche - who is wearing a new skirt made out of old trousers - anxiously await the rebirth of their R 5,30,, worth from their brother; and look, the little gold son won't wait any longer!"
Black-and-white engraved portrait of merchant Henry Simons, who came to prominence as the result of a legal action for assault and robbery brought against him in 1753. From Portraits, memoirs, and characters of remarkable persons, from the Revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II, Volume 3, by James Caulfield, published London: T. H. Whitely.
