A list of 145 enslaved persons divided by Friendfield and Point Plantation as well as adults, children and house people. The list, created for tax purposes, details which enslaved persons received clothes, blankets and shoes as well as jobs of specific enslaved persons. Makes notations that the enslaved person Minta was dead and that Washington was killed in a storm.
1806, 1822, 1809, 1820, 1808, 1821, 1807, and 1810-1819
Description:
The Day Book for Henry Ravenel Junior, Wood Ville, 1806-1822, is a book divided into two sections. The first section lists the names of slaves and their decedents, lists of purchased slaves with name, name of previous owner, date and price, and slaves who received shoes. The second half, which appears upside down, records family events, visits to the Pineville theatre, traveling, engagements, marriages, deaths, and attendance at the Jockey Club. Also included are entries about a hunting party to capture or kill fugitive slaves, the promise of emancipation for two female "mulatto" child slaves, and a trial over the body of a slave woman who was punished to death. This book contains a second use written upside-down and back to front.
Articles of agreement between John Ball Jr., executor of the estate of John Ball Sr., and Midway and Kensington Plantations overseer Britton Bunch. The agreement outlines John Ball Jr.'s agreement to pay Britton Bunch $200, to have the authority to discharge him, Britton Bunch's share of plantation cattle and crops, an agreement that John Ball Jr. will "let Britton Bunch have a boy to wait & a woman to cook & wash for him," Bunch's agreement to take care of the enslaved persons, especially when sick and with "moderation and humanity and on no occasion to beat them with sticks nor at any one time to inflict more than twenty stripes when necessary to correct them & then with switches.
Articles of agreement between John Ball Jr., executor of the estate of John Ball Sr., and Pimlico Plantation overseer Samuel Lynes. The agreement outlines John Ball Jr.'s agreement to pay Samuel Lynes $500 a year, to have the authority to discharge him, Samuel Lynes' share of plantation cattle and crops, an agreement that John Ball Jr. will "furnish Samuel Lynes with a woman to cook & wash and a boy and a girl to wait on his family," Samuel Lynes' agreement to take care of the enslaved persons, especially when sick and with "moderation and humanity and is on no occasion to beat or suffer them to be beat with sticks" and "when necessary always to correct with switches."
Memorandum of agreement between Charlotte Allston and Samuel Smith for the hire of enslaved persons. The agreement states that Charlotte Allston gives each enslaved person winter and summer clothes and shoes.
