Letter from Robert Woodward Barnwell, Beaufort, SC, to his brother William H. W. Barnwell, Charleston, about family, Robert's leadership of Sunday School in Beaufort, and issues concerning temperance, including a lengthy discussion about "Northern temperance papers" and "quarrels about sacramental wine." July 29, 1835.
The Andrew Hasell Medical Account Book between the years 1830-1842 is a book listing Dr. Andrew Hasell?s visitations to ill or injured patients on various plantations throughout Georgetown County, South Carolina. His book documents the diseases, injuries, surgical procedures and deaths of patients that include enslaved men, women, and children. Some pages are written in partial latin.
A letter from Kensington Plantation overseer James Coward to John Ball at Comingtee Plantation discussing the corn, rice and potato crops at Midway Plantation, the floodgate, assigning enslaved persons to the field, and a shipment of supplies.
A letter from William Jones to Langdon Cheves Sr. discussing the enslaved man Harry and his wife Betty. The letter describes the couple as thoroughly attached and asks if Betty could be purchased by Cheves, sold to Jones in 1830, for the couple to be together. The reverse side of the letter is a copy of Cheves' response in which he agrees to purchase Betty.
An indenture between carpenter Thomas C. Brown, a "free man of colour," and Benjamin Moncrieff, " a free black boy aged about fourteen years" whose guardian is John Ball. The indenture is for Moncrieff to learn carpentry for seven years under Brown.
A letter from Isaac Rembert at Walnut Grove to John Ball discussing Rembert's destruction of rice crops due to flooding, issues with Ball's flood gate, the legal laws concerning flood gates and the notation that Rembert will appear before the magistrate and freeholders to assist if John Ball does not solve the problem.
A letter from Quinby Plantation overseer William Turner to John Ball in Charleston discussing the rice and corn crops, and a situation concerning the conduct of an enslaved woman who Turner wanted to put in a closet, but four men took her from the closet and said "they would dye before she would go in the clauset."
