This is a Sandy Island plantation journal written inside of the South Carolina and Georgia Almanac for the year 1797. The plantation journal documents the planting of crops (rice, corn and potatoes), slave records (including runaway slaves), accounts, the weather, and business relations with Laurel Hill Plantation.
The Mouzon Plat Book surveys lands held by various individuals and families in Craven County [now in parts of Berkeley, Charleston, Georgetown, and Williamsburg counties], Colleton County and Berkeley County in South Carolina. Plats are drawn in pencil and ink. Book includes an index at the beginning and at the end are two pages of accounts and also lands to be resurveyed for the estate of Henry Mouzon Jr.
Handwritten essay "regarding the need to address inequalities shared by all disadvantaged Americans, white and black. There is an audio tape of Clark giving this talk at Antioch College in 1000-15-10."
Correspondence from Charles Drayton III., to Mr. Carlisle describing "an slight altercation" between Charles Drayton I., and Banastre Tarleton during the Revolutionary War
This cook book includes instruction on: cabbage; eggs; corn soup; corn fritters; tomato soup; German waffles; canned tomatoes; maccaroni; beef a la mode; birds nest pudding; fried fish; salad; and rice. Also advice on chapped hands; damp closets; polishing furniture; destroying vermin; using scrapbooks; and extracting grease.
Unpublished manuscript and notes written by Jacob S. Raisin entitled, "The Jews of Charleston." The manuscript covers Raisin's report on the history of Jewish peoples in Charleston.
Partial manuscript copy of "The Presidency" written by Isaac Harby. "The Presidency" discusses Harby's thoughts on politics, opinions surrounding John Quincy Adams, war, dividing the states, democracy, and the 1824 election between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.
Unpublished partial manuscript entitled, "The Sayings of the Fathers," written by Jacob S. Raisin. The manuscript covers Raisin's "Three Pillars of Society," which he notes as the Torah, worship, and deeds of kindness.
Letter from Sarah, in Charleston, to her mother at Hopeton. She discusses the weather, the state of the house and her mother's things, and the health of their family.
A copy of Thomas S. Grimke's petition to the South Carolina Senate asking to be excused from the responsibility of bearing arms due to his religious beliefs.
An accounting of a women petitioning St. Andrew's Society on behalf of her husband for a land grant of 400 acres. The accounting includes three men noting their recommendations she be granted the land and certifying her story.
![047. [Paul Trapier?] Keith to Willis Wilkinson -- Jan. 13, year unknown.](https://rspace.library.cofc.edu/iiif/image/25381/full/200,/0/default.jpg)
