This is a Sandy Island plantation journal written inside of a South Carolina and Georgia almanac for the year 1798. The plantation journal documents the planting of crops (rice, corn and potatoes), runaway slaves (including women and children), business relations with Laurel Hill Plantation, the hiring of Mrs. Taylor's bricklayers, illness, the weather, calculations, and the receipt of cypress planks from Plowden Weston.
Copy of Plat of 157 acres of land laid out to Harrison on Wadmalaw Island at the head of Wadmalaw River. Names associated with this plat are Christopher Harrison, Henry Walkins, and Luna Williams.
Tract of land on Pawley's Island containing 10 acres situated to the south west of Hasell, known as Lot No.6. Names associated with this plat are Colonel P. Fraser, Hasell, Goudin, Robert Campbell, Anderson, Hoben [?], Joseph Port-Geaur, Thomas Bouhia [?], May Smith, H. Eclert [?], D. Wary, W. Snipes, Mazyck, Mitchell and Grant. Notable geographic locations include Pawley's Island, Georgetown District and Sash Creek.
Copy of a plat of annexed to the original grant to John Stanyarn for 300 acres on Wadmalaw Island now belonging to Barnet Adams. Names associated with this plat include Barnet Adams, Edmund Bellinger, John Stanyarn, William Green, Joseph Tobias, Christopher Williamson, John Mill and Winborne Laughton. Notable geographic locations include Wadmalaw Island and Bohicket Creek.
A letter to John F. Grimke from James Delaire in Charleston, South Carolina. Delaire thanks Grimke for his offer of service if a war breaks out with France in St. Domingo following the Emancipation of revolted slaves. Delaire describes the different socioeconomic classes that exist in St. Domingo and the probability of French intervention following the revolution.
A letter from Charleston discussing John Ball's qualifications for any Universities in England. These qualifications include John's "proper" behavior, and reading Virgil, Horace, and the Gospels of the Greek Testaments.
Black-and-white engraved map of Paramaribo, with a key including the city's two synagogues. Engraving by Jean Baptiste Pierre Tardieu. From Voyage à Surinam et dans l'intérieur de la Guiane by John Gabriel Stedman, published Paris: chez F. Buisson.
