The Daniel Huger Receipt Book, 1812-1819, is a bound book documenting the receipts by various employees of Daniel Huger and Charleston merchants he frequented. Receipts include the payments made to buyers of enslaved people, money sent for subscriptions to newspapers and to the Charleston Library Society, the American Revolution Society, and churches. Other receipts include money for advertisements and political campaigns, employee wages, tuition money for his daughters and funeral expenses and memorials following the death of his son, Daniel Huger Jr.
A one-page handwritten note announcing the carpenter Jacob A. Brown as the successor to Moses W. Adams and providing the addresses of his shop and residence in Charleston. The corresponding envelope has names, dates, and numbers written on it.
