A letter to John Jacob Ischudy discussing arrangements for the rectory, a situation concerning the senders "negroes," and punishing Old Friday by returning him to Ischudy's care.
(Front) A torn piece of paper with notes written in pencil. The notes list lots and names, and some notes contain other details. (Back) A list of items related to town maintenance. Some items have marks in pencil written next to him, and a line in pencil crosses diagonally across the page.
Unpublished manuscript entitled, "Washington the Mason," written by Jacob Salmon Raisin. The manuscript covers Raisin's thoughts on George Washington and his contributions to Freemasonry. The manuscript also mentions connections between Judaism and Freemasonry.
Unpublished manuscript written by Jacob S. Raisin entitled, "We Jews!" The manuscript relates Raisin's thoughts on Judaism, race, religion, and antisemitism.
Medical record book of Richard Love Johnson (1841-1913). Johnson documents the Assistant Surgeon's cases during the Civil War, cases of pregnant newly freed women during Reconstruction, and his work on a farm in South Carolina.
Plowden Weston's Plantation Journal is part of the Weston family papers collection. Plowden Weston came to the colony of South Carolina from Warwickshire, England in 1757, and he bought Laurel Hill Plantation and adjoining lands in 1775. This journal contains lists of items shipped to Waccamaw Plantations (Wandow, Laurel Hill, Holly Hill, Waccamaw) and accounts of crops (rice, cotton) transported and sold in various Lowcountry area wharves, 1802-1820. Items shipped to plantations include tools, textiles, seeds, sundries, medicines, etc. Journal includes other ephemera such as correspondences, bank deposits, financial accounts, formulas, instructions. Items distributed to enslaved people often appear with lists of their names.
The Roslin Plantation journal, kept by Archibald Simpson Johnston, documented enslaved people and slave labor on an antebellum plantation for two years (1813-1815). The journal documents correspondence, equipment, planting and harvesting, livestock, slaves and supplies related to the plantation. There are detailed descriptions of tasks and number of enslaved people working each task, particularly tasks regarding growing cotton and rice and maintainining those fields.
Plantation journal from McLeod Plantation. It lists the names and accounts of workers (1910-1921), contains notes on crops (1926-1944), and has a number of family accounts (1927-1965).
