This document is a labor agreement between J. W. Sprague and freedmen and signed by other numerous individuals. The reverse side of the document includes the notation "Agreement Hands."
A plat from 1774 for 100 acres on "Horns" or "Horney" Creek, a branch of Stephens Creek of the Savannah River. The reverse page includes the notation "Shearod Whatley plat 100 acres."
Letter to the delegates from South Carolina at the Continental Congress requests that a large sum of money be paid to Don Juan de Miralles. A postscript (1779 April 16) signed by Juan de Miralles constitutes a receipt by Miralles for the money delivered to him by Henry Laurens.
Handwritten, five page account by John Colcock concerning Isaac Hayne's defense, the charges brought against Hayne by the British, pleas put forth, answers and Hayne's execution.
Fragment of a legal document concerning a lawsuit involving Charleston, South Carolina merchant Joseph DaCosta and South Carolina state representative Richard Andrew Rapley.
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.
This document is the last will and testament of Mary Magdalen Poyas. Makes the notation that her two female slaves, Lydia and Sarah, are free upon her death.
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