876 acres of land west of Murray Road in St. John's Parish. Names associated with this plat are Chas Johnston, Ben Castell, William Simpson, Verth, and J.G. Wiare. Notable geographic locations include Wadboo Barony.
Plat of approximately 300 acres of marsh and farm land on the Stono River. Marsh and high land are denoted on the plat with few other details. Names associated with this plat are Mansfield, Mathuvin [?] Guevin, Franics [?] Guevin, Rebecca Chapman, Francis Wilkinson, Gaspar Trotti, and Stephen Ravenel. Notable geographic locations are the Stono River.
Plat of land of 64 acres laid out for Allard Belin situated on Sandy Island. Names associated with this plat are Allard Berlin, John Hardwick and D.T. Waring.
77 acres of marsh in two pieces situated on Johns Island along Stono River. Names associated with this plat are J.N. Mainville, Thomas Simmons, James Nicholas, Guervin, William Simmons and Marshall. Notable geographic locations are the Stono River, Johns Island, Charleston District, and Marshalls Creek.
Plat of 210 acres belonging to William Williams surrounded by land owned by Thomas Pinckney, Christopher Smith, and Thomas Dalton. No other notes written as to the location of the land. Very little detail on the plat included. Names associated with this plat include William Williams, Thomas Pinckney, Christopher Smith, Thomas Daulton, Thomas Smith, Edward Weekly, William Dry, Ralph Izard, Charles Fields, John Jolhimns [?], Thomas Broughton, and Hannah English aka Hannah Williams.
Copy of a plat granted to Abraham Michau north side of Santee and containing 213 acres in the Georgetown district in Craven County [now in parts of Berkeley, Charleston, Georgetown, and Williamsburg counties]. Names associated with this plat are Abraham Michau, James St. John, Thomas Broughton, Paul Michau, and John Dear.
This letter is from John Lloyd in Charleston, South Carolina to his nephew Thomas B. Smith in London, England. Some of the contents of the letter discuss Smith's slave who was stolen, which he references as "a negro"; Lloyd's advocacy of "the new Constitution"; Smith's nephew William Farr who arrived from Holland and the estate of Thomas Farr.
A copy of the last will and testament of Benjamin Garden in which he divides his estate among his remaining relatives. States that the enslaved men Radcliff and Tom be "shipped off and sold to the Spaniards or at the Bay of Honduras..." Garden also frees the enslaved man named Taunton from "all further servitude" and the house "wench" Alley stating it is "my wish to liberate her from all future slavery." Makes notation that the enslaved persons Abram, Sarah, "Statyrah" and Moses are to be sold, and names enslaved persons to be moved to other family plantations.
Fragment of a legal document concerning a lawsuit involving Charleston, South Carolina merchant Joseph DaCosta and South Carolina state representative Richard Andrew Rapley.
