The Porcher family history book contains biographical information, reminiscences, and anecdotes about the Porcher family, who lived on multiple plantation properties in Berkeley County, South Carolina. The book also contains numerous photographs depicting plantation houses, chapels, a slave cabin, and portraits of Porcher family members and workers around the properties.
Petition of Agnes Bell to the St. Andrew's Society requesting assistance from the St. Andrew's society, explaining that she lacks financial resources to support children after husband's death.
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.
![Chakram- Indian Machine for raising water, [Francis] Buchanan's Mysore](https://iiif.library.cofc.edu/iiif/2/45438/full/200,/0/default.jpg)
![Letter from N[athan] and D[avid] Sellers (brothers) to Henry Laurens, Jr.](https://iiif.library.cofc.edu/iiif/2/45436/full/200,/0/default.jpg)
![The Results of an experiment made to extract an [Experimental] oil from Cotton Seed](https://iiif.library.cofc.edu/iiif/2/47338/full/200,/0/default.jpg)
