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.
A list of offenses resulting in exclusion from the clergy which includes murder, "robbing church," "robbing any persons in their dwelling house," "buggery," piracy, accessories in "petty treason," stealing, rape, burglary, "consulting with evil spirits, taking up dead bodies for purposes of witchcraft," "persons connected with slaves in actual insurrection guilty of treason," and "carrying away a slave."
Miscellaneous Inventories, 1813-1817, is a bound volume kept by or for a member of the Ball family. The volume includes inventories of furniture, kitchen ware, clothing, and other household decorations such as candlesticks, bookcases, shades, looking glasses and crockery. The volume also includes a list of enslaved men, women and children divided by families.
The Baptism Book for Enslaved People at Walworth and Leamington Plantations, 1848-1853, is a record of enslaved men, women and children who were baptized under officiating ministers Rev. William Dehon and Rev. Christopher D. Gadsden. The book also makes notations regarding enslaved persons who were dead upon receiving baptism. The last two pages are entries about the enslaved persons who underwent the rite of confirmation.
A letter to Harold Cranston on Capers Island from James Vidal discussing a shipment of corn, oakum, coffee, sugar, the plantation crop, construction of the flat, and needing enslaved persons for work.
A bill of sale for three enslaved men between Jenkins MiKell and Harold Cranston for $1,500. The names of the enslaved men are listed as Kit, April and Carlos.
A letter to Harold Cranston on Capers Island from James Vidal discussing his brother traveling to Hunting Island for palmettos, the enslaved persons Noble and Eugene repairing the plantation boat, requesting for the use of the enslaved man Dedfort in exchange for an enslaved boy, and Vidal suffering from a sickness.
A letter to Harold Cranston on Capers Island from James Vidal discussing the enslaved "noble Dedfort," assistance of Captain William in carting timber, that the enslaved workers are "there to obey your order," and a shipment of tobacco, whiskey and molasses.
