A bond to John Ball Sr., executor of the estate of John Coming Ball in which John Coming Ball's estate, writings and papers are given to John Ball Jr. and Isaac Ball.
A copy of a conveyance of land from John Ball and his family to the vestry and church wardens of St. John's. The document expresses the desire of the late Elias Ball, to provide a residence for the Episcopal Church that consists of sixty-three acres of land. Included in the conveyance is the notation that the Ball family can carry away marl and lime, fish on the banks and borders and that their "servants and slaves" are able to pass and return from the area.
The Daniel Huger Receipt Book, 1812-1819, 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, the American Revolution Society, and churches. Other receipts include money for advertisements and political campaigns, employee wages, tuition money for his daughters and funeral expenses and memorials following the death of his son, Daniel Huger Jr.
The Roslin Plantation journal, kept by Archibald Simpson Johnston, documented enslaved people and slave labor on an antebellum plantation for two years (1813-1815). The journal documents correspondence, equipment, planting and harvesting, livestock, slaves and supplies related to the plantation. There are detailed descriptions of tasks and number of enslaved people working each task, particularly tasks regarding growing cotton and rice and maintainining those fields.
