The Travel Expenses Book, 1806-1810, is a bound volume kept by John Ball listing expenses for his travels to New York, Boston, Cambridge, Montreal, Quebec, Philadelphia, Bowling Green, Washington, Alexandria, Trenton, and other locations. Expenses are kept for food, clothing, lodging, and hiring servants. Notes indicate Mr. Ball's rating for service and fare at hotels and taverns in various locations.
A list of enslaved persons and a mortgage sold to Henry Gooch from William Davidson for $3,206. The names of the enslaved persons are Nancy, George, "Gus," Mary, David, Phebe, and Edmond.
Appraisement and inventory of the personal estate of the late Robert F.W. Allston. The list includes plates, china, furniture found at the mansion in Charleston, sundries at numerous plantations, tools, securities and a list of 590 enslaved persons divided by plantations including one in North Carolina.
A letter from a North Carolina businessman asking Senator Maybank to reconsider changing the draft age to eighteen and nineteen. He brings up another point of "negro" men who had not had their venereal diseases treated, being released back into the community. He suggests that they are a menace to society and with all the young white men gone, altercations with black men could arise. A response from Maybank's secretary is included, stating the letter will be given to the Senator when he returns to office.
Handwritten class notes written by Bernice Robinson from Community Action Technicians training programs in Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana, and North Carolina.