Plat of 383 acres on Mary Creek Swamp belonging to Joseph Coachman. Details include the property lines, the location of the swamp, and location of a few trees. Names associated with this plat are Joseph Coachman, J. Hardwick, John LaBruce, Cattle, and Ralph Izard.
400 acre plot of David Elliot that includes what appears to be a marsh called Great Bay, no land types or detail. Names associated with this plat are David Elliot, Washington, Henry Sattus and J. Hardwick. Notable geographic locations include Georgetown and Great Bay.
Plat of 200 acres above Bacon Bridge surveyed for William Drayton. Details include the property lines, trees, the location of the swamp, a field, a canal and roads. Names associated with this plat are Joseph Coachman, William Drayton, Thomas, Thomas Smith, J.J. Keersy [?], Chandless, Gales, and J.H. Waring. Notable geographic locations include Mary Creek Swamp [?], Broad Road, and Bacon Bridge.
Papers consist of technical and mechanical drawings, formulae and notes, and other items. Drawings in pencil and ink (some hand-colored) depict a marsh plow, a windmill, a canal, Dutch yachts, an Amsterdam canoe (pontoon?), a trunk (irrigation device), a chakram (water-raising machine of India), a "double canoe" of Polynesia, a Venetian well (or cistern), a rice mill, a horse hoe, a gunpowder mill, a Welsh carr (carriage), the "bear" (plowing device?), and other devices. Some of these drawings may have been sent to Thomas Pinckney by William Vans Murray (U.S. foreign minister at The Hague in the 1790's). Several drawings (of the double canoe, Venetian well, chakram, the bear, and Amsterdam canoe) are accompanied by notes and descriptions. Formulae and instructions are for making cement for china, cottonseed oil, paints, oil compost, milk paint, and other products. Other items include a printed description of "Goodsell's Patent Hemp and Flax Dresser, & Grain Thrasher," a printed description of Benjamin B. Bernard's threshing machine (ca. 1808), a print depicting three bridges (bears the printed signature of Lewis Wernwag), a printed article entitled "Remarks on the Culture of Barrilla," a copy of a letter (1802) to Henry Laurens from N. & D. (Nathan and David) Sellers concerning a rolling screen for cleaning rice, and newspaper clippings.
A letter from Elias Ball IV at Limerick Plantation to Elias "Wambaw" Ball III exiled in Bristol, England on an account between the Balls and James Gordon, Elias Ball IV's tiredness, the rice and corn crops, planting 225 acres of rice at Comingtee Plantation, and debt.
Survey of Midway Plantation owned by John Ball Esq. The survey shows locations of rice fields, canals, dams, floodgates, pinelands, reservoirs, banks, the settlement situated on high land, roads, and "Lanneau's Ferry" also known as Lenud's Ferry.
Copy of a plat laid out at Goose Creek now belonging to Benjamin Mazyck. 200 acres of land commonly called Busharia. Butting and bounding on the north and west on Col. James Moore land and the south on Captain Schrenckingh and on the east on Madam Davis' land. Names associated with this plat are Benjamin Mazyck, Davis, Lawson, Thomas Smith, Benjamin Schrenckingh, James Moore, and David Daw. Notable geographic locations include Busharia, Booshee, and Goose Creek.
Plan of lands at Bee Creek belonging to Mr. James Bolen called Gray's Hill. Names associated with this plat include James Bolen. Notable geographic locations include St. Lukes Parish, Gray's Hill, Grey's Hill Landing, Bees Creek, and Purrysburgh.
