Page 70 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with two plats. Plat 1 shows lots located near the intersection of "Broad Road" and George Street, with several buildings and bodies of water. Plat 2 shows a mill pond, marshlands, and structures located near the Ashley River.
Page 58 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with six plats. Plat 1 shows lots between Broad Street and Short Street, near their intersections with Mazyck Street. Plat 2 features lots on Greenhill Street, Limehouse Street, and Tradd Street. Plat 2 also shows a line labelled "Edge of High Land." Plat 3 shows lots near Broad Street, including lots labelled "Hawens Square" and "Burying Ground." Plat 3 also shows structures labelled "Magazine" and "Work House." Plat 4 shows lots located on King Street. Plat 5 shows land located between Meeting Street and Lee Street, and a dotted line labelled "City Boundary." Plat 6 shows lots located between President Street and Norman Street.
Receipt book kept by Eliza L. Pinckney includes formulas for making medicines to treat croup, fever, dropsy, and other conditions; recipes for cheese cake, puddings, currant wine, orange marmalade, jelly, oyster soup, and other foods; instructions for preparing meats and rice, and preserving and pickling foods; and a formula "To make the hair grow."
Receipt issued by Roger Pinckney (via Algernon Wilson) for the purchase of a Pew in the North Aisle of Saint Philips Church. The pew had previously belonged to Francis Bramar.
Extracts from the proceedings of the High Court of Vice-Admiralty, in Charlestown, South-Carolina, upon six several informations adjudged by the Honorable Edgerton Leigh, Sole Judge of that Court and His Majesty's attorney-general in the said province in the years 1767 and 1768, with explanatory remarks, [et]c. and copies of two extraordinary oaths to which are subjoined, recapitulations, reflections arising from a retrospect of a late case, and some general observations on American Customs House officers, and courts of Vice-Admiralty. This pamphlet criticizes the activities of the South Carolina Vice Admiralty Court. Printed in Charlestown by David Bruce. Page is torn.
A handwrriten letter from John Torrans to Alexander Rose persuading him to purchase a brigatine sailing vessel called industry. The postscript mentions that one of the enslaved people is a runaway.
A letter from a woman with a sick infant who is petitioning the St. Andrew's Society for financial aid to help her pay the midwife, rent, and other necessary items.
