The Account Book of John Ball Sr., 1788-1812, is an unbound book containing financial accounts for clients such as Hyde Park Plantation overseer David Franklin and the freedman Robin. The account book also makes various references to enslaved persons named Almanza, Caesar, Daniel, Hercules, Mauney, Plimoth, Sampson and Terror.
The Daniel Huger Receipt Book 1803-1812 is a bound book documenting the receipts by various employees of Daniel Huger and Charleston merchants he frequented. Receipts include the payments made to buyers of enslaved people, money sent for subscriptions to newspapers and to the Charleston Library Society and the American Revolution Society. Other receipts include dividends to the State Bank and employee wages.
Copy of a plat of a tract of land containing 100 acres situated on the west side of branch of Black River in Craven County bounding on all sides on vacant land. Names associated with this plat are John Trough, James Bauman, Robert McDaniel, Gluscork [?], Howard, and Samuel Bunger. Geographic locations include Craven County [now in parts of Berkeley, Charleston, Georgetown, and Williamsburg counties], Black River, and Blues River.
The Account Book for Caroline Olivia Ball, 1812, was kept by Caroline Ball's father John Ball Sr. recording rent money received for a house given to Caroline Ball from Elias Ball.
A bond to Isaac Ball from John Bryan, trustee of Elizabeth Ball, for the sum of $700 for a lot of land in Charleston due to Elizabeth Ball's renunciation of dower.
A list of enslaved men sent to work on the high roads. The list is divided by occupation which includes drivers, carpenters, ax men, men working with spades and men working with hoes.
Black-and-white etched satirical portrait of Ismael Aga, a noted peddler and beggar in the area of the Royal Exchange in London. London: Published 4 July, 1812, by Robert Wilkinson.
Black-and-white lithograph depicting a group of Jewish peddlers from Poland showing their wares to two approaching Cossacks. Lithograph by Godefroy Engelmann after Louis-Albert-Ghislain Bacler d'Albe.
