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Date:: 1860-02
Description:: A list of "170 Rice Field Negroes" for sale owned by Langdon Cheves, deceased. The list includes the name, age, and job of the enslaved persons.

Date:: 1704-07-06
Description:: A receipt from Dumons stating that John Hentie paid seven pounds in full of all accounts.

Date:: 1708
Description:: A copy of a plat for Mepkin Plantation which includes the geographic statistics for the estate and surrounding area.

Date:: 1712
Description:: Articles of Agreement for payments between James Child and James Robinson.

Date:: 1714
Description:: A land conveyance of a plantation to Elias "Red Cap" Ball in Berkeley County. The conveyance grants Elias Ball and his family freedom of "hawking, hunting, fishing & fowling" on the property.

Date:: 1815
Description:: A list of land tracts in Berkeley County belonging to Elias Ball I that were "by him exhibited" to King George the I's auditor.

Date:: 1718-09-30
Description:: An indenture between James Child and his son Isaac Child for a plantation and "lands now planted with Indiantown."

Date:: 1719
Description:: An land indenture for 145 pounds from James and Jane Robinson to Isaac Child for a tract of land called "the Parsonage" on Strawberry Plantation.

Date:: 1770-1779, 1760-1769, 1740-1749, 1750-1759, 1720-1729, and 1730-1739
Description:: The Ball Family Account and Blanket Book, 1720-1778, includes lists of purchases, expenses, blankets given out to enslaved persons, and names/ages of enslaved persons at Midway, Limerick, Comingtee and Kensington Plantations. The book includes a loose list of enslaved men with their place of birth and ages, ca. 1750, currently on exhibit at the South Carolina Historical Society Museum.

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