A letter from William Jones to Langdon Cheves Sr. discussing the enslaved man Harry and his wife Betty. The letter discusses Harry's service with another slaveholder and Betty's great health.
A letter from Kensington Plantation overseer James Coward to John Ball at Comingtee Plantation discussing a medical visit from a doctor for an enslaved woman, a possible case of typhus, a situation with Old Marcus and a shipment of supplies.
The John Ball Plantation Account Book, 1812-1834, is an indexed account book kept by overseers at various plantations owned by the Ball family. Overseers named are John Cox, Arthur McFarland, Samuel Lynes, Alexander McKnight, Britton Bunch, John Dickson, Thomas Fincklea, James Coward, and John Page. Of particular interest are two different accounts, one with William Deas, referred to as a "Mulatto" and the other "Free Nancy," a free black woman at Limerick Plantation who was buying and trading rice and sugar.
The Henry Ravenel Medical Book, 1816-1834 records medical visits and prescriptions for families and their slaves by physician Henry Ravenel. Families seeking medical treatment include Porcher, Dubois, Gaillard, Foxworth, Marion, Moore, Ravenel, Broughton and many others. Some of the diseases and injuries being treated are rheumatic diseases, fevers, fractures, kidney disease, a miscarriage, and an amputation on a child slave.
A letter from Kensington Plantation overseer James Coward to John Ball at Comingtee Plantation discussing the corn, rice and potato crops at Midway Plantation, the floodgate, assigning enslaved persons to the field, and a shipment of supplies.
A letter from William Jones to Langdon Cheves Sr. discussing the enslaved man Harry and his wife Betty. The letter describes the couple as thoroughly attached and asks if Betty could be purchased by Cheves, sold to Jones in 1830, for the couple to be together. The reverse side of the letter is a copy of Cheves' response in which he agrees to purchase Betty.
An indenture between carpenter Thomas C. Brown, a "free man of colour," and Benjamin Moncrieff, " a free black boy aged about fourteen years" whose guardian is John Ball. The indenture is for Moncrieff to learn carpentry for seven years under Brown.
A letter from Isaac Rembert at Walnut Grove to John Ball discussing Rembert's destruction of rice crops due to flooding, issues with Ball's flood gate, the legal laws concerning flood gates and the notation that Rembert will appear before the magistrate and freeholders to assist if John Ball does not solve the problem.
