Overseer's Report for Nightingale Hall Plantation, July 13th, 1864

Title:

Overseer's Report for Nightingale Hall Plantation, July 13th, 1864

Date:

1864

Description:

A letter to Charlotte Allston from the overseer at Nightingale Hall Plantation discussing tasks performed by enslaved persons as well as those who are sick and crops. Makes a notation about the enslaved person Toney from Chicora Wood Plantation who returned from the "yankees." The overseer believes Toney and his family should be sent to North Carolina as he does not wish to have him sent to the military.

Collection Title:

Allston Family Papers, 1730-1901

Contributing Institution:

South Carolina Historical Society

Media Type:

Manuscripts

Topical Subject:

Slave records, Slaveholders, Plantations--South Carolina, Slave labor, Slavery--South Carolina, Fugitive slaves, Diseases, Letters, Crops, and Plantation overseers

Geographic Subject:

South Carolina

S.C. County:

Confederate States of America, United States--Civil War, 1861-1865, and Georgetown County (S.C.)Chicora Wood Plantation (S.C.)

Language:

English

Shelving Locator:

12-06_F34 (1164.00)

Date Digital:

2022-10

Digitization Specifications:

600 dpi, 24-bit depth, color, Epson Expression 10000XL. Archival masters are tiffs.

Format:

image/jpeg

Copyright Status Statement:

Public Domain.

Access Information:

For more information and re-use requirements contact the South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, SC, 29401.

Admin ID:

265446