A letter from John Ball Jr. while at school in Charleston to his father John Ball Sr. thanking his "dear Papa" for the sweet potatoes and a bundle containing cake and ground nuts. He also mentions attending the races and reading Virgil on the weekends.
A copy of the appraisement made at Back River Plantation which includes eighty-six enslaved persons. The list includes the valuations of the enslaved persons as well as the notation that the enslaved person Jackey is a driver. The remaining information for the appraisement is for household furniture, cattle, linen, tools, seeds, and grains.
Benjamin Slade's affidavit relative to his drawing of John C. Ball's will that discusses the Holy Evangelists, Justice of the Peace Stephen Ravenel, and the division of the late John C. Ball's personal effects between the children of Jane Ball and Eleanor Wilson
A letter from Catherine Hort at Middleburg Plantation to her uncles John and Elias Ball on her gratitude for their attention on "our joint estate." Also included is John Ball's reply on her father's estate, and Catherine's "dissatisfaction to both the division of negroes and land."
A division of Middleburgh lands (Middleburg Plantation) by Edward Thomas, Elias Ball III and John Ball that includes valuations for buildings and improvements. Lands mentioned are Longamere, "Smoaky Hill," reservoirs, river swamps, and pineland.
This document is the last will and testament of Mary Magdalen Poyas. Makes the notation that her two female slaves, Lydia and Sarah, are free upon her death.
