A letter from Ann Ball to her husband John Ball at Kensington Plantation discussing "Lewis" and "Marcus," Isaac Ball leaving town with his family, a severe cold, and the harvesting of crops.
John Ball's Office of Discount Deposit Book, 1803, is a bound volume kept by John Ball Sr. recording finances for various persons including members of the Gadsden, Prioleau and Ball families.
Articles of Agreement between John Ball Jr. and Back River Plantation overseer Arthur McFarlane. The agreement includes that $250 is paid to McFarlane, reasonings for dismissal, that McFarlane and his family are allowed hogs, poultry, one horse and the milk of one cow, to have "a boy to wait on him and a woman to cook and wash for him." The agreement also includes McFarlane "taking care of the negroes; especially when sick-treating them when well with moderation and humanity-and is on no occasion to beat them with sticks-when necessary, always to correct them with switches."
A letter from Keating Simons to his daughter Ann Simons Ball discussing Jane's fever, and the sick family of John Lyons. The letter ends discussing the victory of General Andrew Jackson against the British in New Orleans where 1,000 men were killed and 500 taken prisoner.
A letter from Lydia Bryan in Charleston, South Carolina to her niece Nancy Ball at Comingtee Plantation inquiring into the health of Jane suffering from a fever.
