The Robert F.W.Allston Memorandum Book covers the years 1848 and 1849, documenting payments made by Robert Allston, a record of cattle on Waverly, Nightingale Hall and Matanza (later known as Chicora Wood) Plantations and mentions of enslaved people who are referenced by first name. The book also includes loose papers and newspaper clippings on politics, the electoral college and a written statement surrounding the different views over slavery between the northern and southern states.
A signed statement by executor Robert F.W. Allston, guardian of Joseph Blythe Allston, on seven enslaved persons from the will of Charlotte Ann Coachman.
A signed statement by executor Robert F.W. Allston, guardian of William Allan Allston, on four enslaved persons and $318 from the will of Charlotte Ann Coachman.
A receipt for $318 to Robert F.W. Allston, the executor and guardian of William Allan Allston, for the division of "negroes" under the will of Mrs. Charlotte Ann Coachman.
A signed statement by Francis Weston and his wife Elizabeth, confirming that they received seven enslaved persons from the estate of Charlotte Ann Coachman.
A receipt for forty dollars paid to R.W. Byers, an officer of the city of New York, for his services in searching for the enslaved person named Pence, who absconded from the property of Charlotte Ann Coachman in 1846.
A letter from Alonzo White to Robert F.W. Allston discussing the selling of Allston's property and requesting the number of enslaved persons there. The bottom of the page is Allston's response.
