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 from John Ball Sr. in Charleston, South Carolina to his son John Ball Jr. at Harvard College in Massachusetts discussing the family relocating to the country for winter, and inquiry on "Allston and Wainwright" from South Carolina at the college. The letter concludes with John Ball Sr. asking about sites in Boston such as Bunker Hill, the dome of the new state house and the methods people use to keep warm in Boston during the winter.
A letter from John Ball Sr. in Charleston, South Carolina to his son John Ball Jr. at Harvard College in Massachusetts discussing their fears of John Ball Jr. getting yellow fever in Boston, Uncle Ball sick with fever, John Ball Jr.'s friends "Allston and Wainwright" at university, John attending class with "67 scholars," and the importance of an education.
