Receipt book belonging to Mary Motte Alston Pringle containing recipes, methods and remedies for food, housekeeping, and medicine from family, friends, articles and world travelers. Pringle often notes on effectiveness and provides personal anecdotes. Pages numbered 74 through 97 in Pringle's book are blank and therefore omitted. The table of contents can be found at the end of the book.
A cash book for Robert F.W. Allston for the years 1823-1843. The book includes account transactions conducted by Allston including payment of overseer wages, the hiring out of enslaved people, transportation, taxes, governesses, nurses, crops, sundries, and cloth distributed to slaves. This book also includes accounts between Allston and other individuals including the Estate of Charlotte A. Allston (primarily for the purchases of blankets, shoes, and cloth for enslaved people) and an account with Mary P. Jones. The last several pages of the book contain cash ledgers. Allston explicitly notes accounting related to Matanza Plantation, later known as Chicora Wood. Other account records do not explicitly state plantation sites.
400 acre plot of David Elliot that includes what appears to be a marsh called Great Bay, no land types or detail. Names associated with this plat are David Elliot, Washington, Henry Sattus and J. Hardwick. Notable geographic locations include Georgetown and Great Bay.
A stereoscopic image of African American women and children posed on a large raft with rice plants. In the backgroud is a large body of water. One person holds a bail of rice.
A pamphlet by A. E. Salley using Washington's travels through South Carolina to highlight genealogy of South Carolinian families and the histories of their plantations. Salley also uses the footnotes to correct errors other historians made when interpreting Washington's travel diary.
The program for the 41st annual meeting of the South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, held at Bethel AME Church and Bethel Baptist Church in Georgetown, South Carolina.
