A letter from farm manager or agent named James Hull on the enslaved man Scipio bring down ducks and butter, picking peas, working in the fields and payments.
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.
A bond to John Ball Sr., executor of the estate of John Coming Ball in which John Coming Ball's estate, writings and papers are given to John Ball Jr. and Isaac Ball.
A copy of a conveyance of land from John Ball and his family to the vestry and church wardens of St. John's. The document expresses the desire of the late Elias Ball, to provide a residence for the Episcopal Church that consists of sixty-three acres of land. Included in the conveyance is the notation that the Ball family can carry away marl and lime, fish on the banks and borders and that their "servants and slaves" are able to pass and return from the area.
A receipt to E.J. Thomas of the Carolina Gazette for a year's subscription. A receipt to E.J. Thomas of the Carolina Gazette for a year's subscription. A receipt to E.J. Thomas of the Carolina Gazette for a year's subscription.