Page 104 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with one plat. The plat shows lots located between Moultrie Street and Cunnington Street. It also shows Lemon Street, Lee Street, Price Street, and Magnolia Street. It also shows a plat labelled "Artilery Society" and another plat labelled "Magnolia Cemetery."
Map of the city of New York as it was in the years 1742-1744, including the first Mill Street Synagogue of Congregation Shearith Israel. Lithograph by George Hayward after an original drawing by David Grim. Published in D. T. Valentine's Manual of the corporation of the city of New York for 1854.
The Robert F.W. Allston Account Book, 1853-1855, records the numerous payments, receipts, debts and purchases and yearly crop information for Chicora Wood, Waverly and Nightingale Hall Plantations. Also included in the book are sections on births, deaths and marriages for enslaved people, writing down the first name of the men and women who married.
Plat of 202 acres in St. James Goose Creek belonging to James Headright. Details include trees on the property line and the names of neighboring property owners. Names associated with this plat are James Headright.
The 1854 Samuel Wilson journal is a Miller's Planters & Merchants Almanac repurposed as a journal. The journal contains handwritten meterological observations, weekly reports of yellow fever deaths, mortality tables, deaths of slaves including murder, notes on family matters, fires, hurriances and other events that took place in Charleston in the year 1854.
A list of enslaved children born at Nightingale Hall Plantation recording the month of birth and name of the child. Also noted are a list of deaths at Nightingale Hall Plantation.
The front page of the slave bill of sale is the notation "Peter G. Snowden to H. W. Ravenel Trustee." The reverse side is a bill signed by Peter G. Snowden describing the sale of two slaves named Cupid and George for the sum of $1,500 to Henry Ravenel, trustee under the marriage settlement of Snowden and his wife Laura Ana.
