Daniel Huger Receipt Book, 1812-1819

Title:

Daniel Huger Receipt Book, 1812-1819

Date:

1810

Creator (Personal):

Huger, Daniel, 1779-1858

Description:

The Daniel Huger Receipt Book, 1812-1819, is a bound book documenting the receipts by various employees of Daniel Huger and Charleston merchants he frequented. Receipts include the payments made to buyers of enslaved people, money sent for subscriptions to newspapers and to the Charleston Library Society, the American Revolution Society, and churches. Other receipts include money for advertisements and political campaigns, employee wages, tuition money for his daughters and funeral expenses and memorials following the death of his son, Daniel Huger Jr.

Collection Title:

Bacot Family Papers, 1752-1973

Contributing Institution:

South Carolina Historical Society

Media Type:

Manuscripts

Personal or Corporate Subject:

Bacot family

Topical Subject:

Slavery, Slaveholders, Account books, Newspapers, Advertising, Slave bills of sale, Merchants, Church buildings, Cost, Salaries, Political campaigns, Nineteenth century, Wages, Payment, Invoices, Employees, Tuition, and Enslaved persons

Geographic Subject:

South Carolina

Language:

English

Shelving Locator:

11/49A (1004.00)

Date Digital:

2021-12

Digitization Specifications:

400 dpi, 24-bit depth, color, Bookeye 4 Basic. 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:

268512