A newspaper clipping on cemeteries at sea, explaining how people, no matter how different they are physically or financially, are alike in the cemetery of the sea. Includes the notation, "Who can tell where lie tens of thousands of Africa's sons who perished in the "middle passage?"
Correspondence from Charles Drayton III., to Mr. Carlisle describing "an slight altercation" between Charles Drayton I., and Banastre Tarleton during the Revolutionary War
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.
This newspaper clipping titled "The Penitentiary is the Place" discusses the arrest of eleven men, now freed slaves, referenced as "negroes," for murdering another black man.
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.
A letter to Harold Cranston on Capers Island from James Vidal discussing a vessel ready to transport items and Vidal's haste to Summerville. Vidal makes the notation he would put the "black hand" to work unloading items if Cranston transports them on the vessel.
Report on the specifications of the materials and labor to be used in the erection of the portico at the residence of Mr. W.W. McLeod on James Island, Charleston County, S.C.
The first side of this document is a brief entry concerning "the business of the faithful legislator." The reverse side of the document contains a formula for making pills for "glandular obstructions."
