A letter from Elias Ball IV at Kensington Plantation to Elias "Wambaw" Ball exiled in Bristol, England discussing Elias Ball's squadron arriving in Charleston, word of 600 men in the town, payment for enslaved persons, the high tax of that year, and word from Mr. Gaillard regarding the remainder of the estates enslaved persons.
196 acres of land located in St Pauls Parish on a navigable branch of Stono River amd belonging to the confiscated estate of James D. Yarborough. Names associated with this plat include Thomas Ferguson, James Yarborough, G. Trotti, William Williamson, Charles Elliot, William Clay Snipes, Thomas Broughton, Edmond Bellinger, and Thomas Cliffon. Notable geographic locations include St. Paul's Parish, the Stono River, Road to Willows, Rutledge’s Creek, Road to Pon Pon and Jacksonborough.
120 acre plot purchased by George Rivers, shows Bohicket Creek and several smaller creeks, also denotes some marsh, highland, and riverbanks, the plot of land is divided into six smaller plots with "Broad Road" running between them. Names associated with this plat are John Rivers, Dr. Micah Jenkins, James Stanyon, George Rivers, Hearn, Matthews, Solomon Freer, William Spencer, James Rivers, John Taylor, Margaret Simpson, William Holmes, John Holmes and James Legare. Notable geographic locations are Bohicket Creek, Johns Island, and Colleton County.
This account by Peter Timothy (1725 - 1782) entitled 'Journal of Observations' describes in great detail the movements of the British Army and Navy from 26 March ' 8 April 1780 during the siege of Charleston. Timothy wrote this account for Henry Laurens (1724-1792), who was in Philadelphia representing South Carolina in the Continental Congress. Prior to 1780, Timothy did not regularly correspond with Laurens. As the revolutionary fervor grew in the colonial capitol, divisions among the rebels created factions who were often at odds with each other over the levels and types of resistance to implement against the British authority. Within these divisions, Laurens was identified as a moderate while Timothy was active among the radicals and an outspoken representative of the Sons of Liberty. Timothy was one of several Charleston residents who frequently sent detailed accounts of the activities occurring in the colony.
Petition of the Charleston parishes of St. Philip and St. Michael "and the adjacent parochial districts" to the Senate of South Carolina and its president, requests that the line of fortification erected across Charleston Neck "should be permanently preserved" and asks that the state consider purchasing "to a certain extent the lands on which these lines are erected." This statement follows attacks on neighboring states by the British army and warns of future wars, domestic or international, in which the fortification would prove valuable.
Letter from Eliza Lucas Pinckney to her daughter Hariott Horry concerning family matters, a female enslaved person (referenced as "my little maid"), wallpaper, seeds, and clothes.
Handwritten, five page account by John Colcock concerning Isaac Hayne's defense, the charges brought against Hayne by the British, pleas put forth, answers and Hayne's execution.
A reply letter from Robert Heriot to Mary Heriot in which he thanks God for their "miraculous escape" as well as concerns over Heriot's status as a prisoner of war on parole, his plea that the British require no "test of allegiance" for the inhabitants of Waccamaw (Georgetown County, S.C.), family and financial matters, and the fate of enslaved persons who ran away from the Heriot plantation.
