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2. Record of Claremont Church, 1808-1865
- Date:
- 1850-1859, 1860-1869, 1840-1849, 1830-1839, 1800-1809, 1810-1819, and 1820-1829
- Description:
- The Record of Claremont Church, 1808-1865, is a bound volume that records lists of communicants, baptisms for infants and adults, burials for confederate soldiers and church members, confirmations and marriages performed. Each section includes entries for both enslaved people, freed persons, and white church members. The entries for enslaved people often include the names of their parents or mother, age, name of their slave owner or if they are free.
3. Andrew Hasell Medical Account Book, 1830-1842
- Date:
- 1840-1849 and 1830-1839
- Description:
- 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.
4. Account of Enslaved Persons and Various Stories, 1831-1844
- Date:
- 1840-1849 and 1830-1839
- Description:
- 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.
5. Estate Book of Hannah Tait, 1836-1860
- Date:
- 1850-1859, 1860, 1840-1849, and 1830-1839
- Description:
- The Estate Book of Hannah Tait, 1836-1860, records the financial accounts for the estate of Hannah Tait with Robert F.W. Allston as executor. The beginning of the book contains the last will and testament of Hannah Tait in which she outlines her wishes for the division of her estate and paying off of debts. Tait leaves her daughter Elizabeth Shackleford her enslaved persons but if Shackleford dies, the enslaved persons are to be "sold at a private sale to humane masters." The book also includes a copy of the inventory and appraisement of the enslaved persons.