Search

Search Constraints

Start Over You searched for: Media Type Manuscripts ✖Remove constraint Media Type: Manuscripts Subject (Geographic) South Carolina ✖Remove constraint Subject (Geographic): South Carolina Subject (Topic) Cattle ✖Remove constraint Subject (Topic): Cattle Subject (Topic) Crops ✖Remove constraint Subject (Topic): Crops

Search Results

1. John Ball Memo Book, 1850-1851

John Ball Memo Book, 1850-1851
Date:
1850 and 1851
Description:
The John Ball Memo Book, 1850-1851, is a bound volume listing crops at Hyde Park Plantation and the Villa as well as miscellaneous accounts for corking a dock, grass for cows, seeds for the garden, blue denim cloth, tobacco, ticking, shoes, molasses, tea and other household items. Also included is a list of men defaulting on militia duty and patrol service for January, March and April of 1851.

2. Weehaw Plantation Journal, 1855-1861

Weehaw Plantation Journal, 1855-1861
Date:
1850-1859 and 1860-1869
Description:
The Weehaw Plantation Journal, 1855-1861, is a journal of Weehaw Plantation, near Georgetown regarding birth, death, duties, vaccinations, tasks and allowances of enslaved people, plantation expenses, names of overseers, listings of rice crops, clothing for enslaved people, cattle, yearly accounts, tools, usage of fields, vegetable garden production, medicines, house groceries and contracts. The journal is also used as a partial diary regarding the plantation with comments on Abraham Lincoln's inaugural address, secession of South Carolina, the days leading up to the attack on Fort Sumpter, the day of the attack on Fort Sumpter, lists of enslaved persons winter and summer clothes and mentions of recruiting for Hampton's Legion for the Confederate States of America. Loose papers found within the journal contain names of enslaved persons and notes on the plantation.