1770-1779, 1760-1769, 1740-1749, 1750-1759, 1720-1729, and 1730-1739
Description:
The Ball Family Account and Blanket Book, 1720-1778, includes lists of purchases, expenses, blankets given out to enslaved persons, and names/ages of enslaved persons at Midway, Limerick, Comingtee and Kensington Plantations. The book includes a loose list of enslaved men with their place of birth and ages, ca. 1750, currently on exhibit at the South Carolina Historical Society Museum.
The Account Book of John Ball Sr., 1788-1812, is an unbound book containing financial accounts for clients such as Hyde Park Plantation overseer David Franklin and the freedman Robin. The account book also makes various references to enslaved persons named Almanza, Caesar, Daniel, Hercules, Mauney, Plimoth, Sampson and Terror.
The Allston-Pringle Plantation Account Book is a bound volume recorded by Adele Petigru Allston and later her daughter, Elizabeth Waities Allston Pringle, for White House, Chicora Wood, and Greenfield Plantation. The book records the financial accounts for the male and female laborers on the properties and documents their expenses and wages in 1867. The end pages of the book, appearing upside down, were used by Elizabeth W.A. Pringle to record daily entries of the tasks performed by laborers in 1913-1914. Also found inside the volume is a loose sheet of paper listing Adele P. Allston's expenses in 1873.