Meeting minutes volume kept by the town of Moultrieville's city council (later the Town of Sullivan Island City Council). This volume covers topics such as the U.S. Government's land acquisition on Sullivan's Island, the institution of building codes and public health laws, the installation of electric lights on Sullivan's Island, and the state legislature's revocation of Moultrieville's town charter.
A typed two-page document of meeting minutes discussing the island's financial health, the local Committee on Health and Sanitation cooperating with the County Board of Health, and numbering the streets.
A typed two-page document of meeting minutes with reports from the Sullivan's Island Improvement Society requesting, discussion of the seriousness of anonymous complaints, a vote to lower the license fee for the Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company. The minutes conclude with a discussion about citizens grass not being cut and the penalty for ignoring the town clerk's notification to cut the grass leading to a warrant for arrest.
The 2nd South Carolina Continental Regiment Order Book, 1777, is a bound volume written for the 2nd South Carolina Continental Regiment (commanded by Colonel Motte). The volume includes an alphabetical list of soldiers serving in the Regiment compiled from the order book by John Bennett (1915), military orders from numerous generals, information on soldiers accused and punished for crimes (such as lashes) for theft, drunkenness, violence, mutiny, and desertion. Also included are references to “divine services” or public worship for the soldiers, and requests for military clothing and other items. Locations mentioned include Fort Moultrie, Fort Johnson, Sullivan's Island, the Charleston Battery, and Haddrell's Point. Persons referenced include General Francis Marion, Henry Laurens, Lt. Col. Isaac Huger, Captain Richard Shubrick and General William Moultrie.
A typed letter from Town Clerk Edwin J. Blank and I. Blank to M. K. Barroll of the United States government thanking Barroll and his men for their relief assistance after "the recent storm."
The Account of Enslaved Persons and Various Stories, 1831-1844, is kept by or for a member of the Ball family. The first half of the account book contains various lists of enslaved men, women and children owned by John Ball at Comingtee/Stoke, Kensington and Midway Plantations in Berkeley County, South Carolina. These lists include enslaved persons given first or second quality blankets, cloth, clothes and osnaburg fabric as well as lists of pregnant enslaved women or enslaved infants given clothes.
The second half of the book contains stories retold by various persons on topics such as an eyewitness account of the Steamship Pulaski Disaster in 1838, stories of enslaved persons including the execution of an enslaved man, stories about the family of George Chicken, eyewitness accounts of the British occupation in Charleston during the Revolutionary War, numerous ghost stories and an account of the first settlers of Charlestown.
A typed three-page document of meeting minutes discussing complaints about fence removal and cutting limbs from fruit trees, the installation of a light at Station 18, and accepting I.M. Pearlstine & Sons bid to provide feed to the island.
