Copy of a plat of 250 acres laid out to Abraham Michau on the north side of Santee River and “now belonging to John Pedro." Names associated with this plat are Abraham Michau, John Pedro, George Hunter and James Glen. Notable geographic locations include the Santee River, Prince Frederick Parish and Georgetown District.
876 acre plot for Simpson, shows roads, houses, and rivers/creeks, no names on any of the details, includes surrounding tracts of lands and trees on the property boundaries. Names associated with this plat are Simpson, Keith, James Gray Wiase, and Charles Johnston.
This is a Sandy Island plantation journal written inside of the South Carolina and Georgia Almanac for the year 1797. The plantation journal documents the planting of crops (rice, corn and potatoes), slave records (including runaway slaves), accounts, the weather, and business relations with Laurel Hill Plantation.
A document with the title "Negroes, The Estate of Peter Villepontoux Deceased" in which the writer lists the names of enslaved men, women and children. Makes notation "Abby-mulatto wench" as well as the relationships between slaves.
A diagram of the "Plain Scale." The horizontal axis is labeled "inclinations of meridians" and vertical axis is labeled hours. Various geometric shapes and lines such as chord, rhombus, tangents, secants, semi tangents, longitudes, and latitudes are drawn within the "plain."
Plat of Hopewell Plantation with surrounding lands owned by several people, shows the Edisto River and an unnamed settlement, labels the land in the center as uncleared land while swamps, roads, rivers and trees surround it. Acreage unclear. Names associated with this plat are Baring, Branford, Mellechamp, Colonel W. Hayne and Arthur Middleton. Notable geographic locations are St. Paul's Parish, Edisto River, and Willtown Road.
A list of lands and enslaved persons owned by John Ball which includes Back River Plantation, it's swamps, lands for cultivation, pine land, a carriage house, smoke house, overseer's house, store house, corn house, a cooper shop and twelve "negro" houses. The document also lists that there are four enslaved men above fifty years of age, eighteen enslaved men under fifty and above twelve, ten enslaved boys under the age of twelve, seven enslaved women above fifty years old, nineteen enslaved women under fifty and above twelve and twenty enslaved girls under twelve.
