The Account Book of John Ball Sr., 1788-1812, is an unbound book containing financial accounts for clients such as Hyde Park Plantation overseer David Franklin and the freedman Robin. The account book also makes various references to enslaved persons named Almanza, Caesar, Daniel, Hercules, Mauney, Plimoth, Sampson and Terror.
The Daniel Huger Receipt Book 1803-1812 is a bound book documenting the receipts by various employees of Daniel Huger and Charleston merchants he frequented. Receipts include the payments made to buyers of enslaved people, money sent for subscriptions to newspapers and to the Charleston Library Society and the American Revolution Society. Other receipts include dividends to the State Bank and employee wages.
The Account Book for Caroline Olivia Ball, 1812, was kept by Caroline Ball's father John Ball Sr. recording rent money received for a house given to Caroline Ball from Elias Ball.
A bond to Isaac Ball from John Bryan, trustee of Elizabeth Ball, for the sum of $700 for a lot of land in Charleston due to Elizabeth Ball's renunciation of dower.
A list of enslaved men sent to work on the high roads. The list is divided by occupation which includes drivers, carpenters, ax men, men working with spades and men working with hoes.
