Letter from Stoke Plantation Overseer Thomas Finklea to John Ball, September 13, 1833

Title:

Letter from Stoke Plantation Overseer Thomas Finklea to John Ball, September 13, 1833

Date:

1833

Creator (Personal):

Finklea, Thomas

Description:

A letter from Stoke Plantation overseer Thomas Finklea to John Ball in Charleston discussing that he sent Elsie and Thomas down with butter, the birth of an enslaved child, the rice crops and fields, a list of sick enslaved persons, the work of Scipio and Bristol, Billey and Tom each having a sore hand and an inventory of cattle.

Collection Title:

Ball Family Papers, 1631-1895

Contributing Institution:

South Carolina Historical Society

Media Type:

Manuscripts

Personal or Corporate Subject:

Ball family

Topical Subject:

Cattle, Slave records, Wounds and injuries, Plantations--South Carolina, Slavery--South Carolina, Rice, Inventories, Health, Letters, Butter, Crops, Birth, Sick, Letter writing, Plantation overseer, Enslaved persons, and Enslaved children

Geographic Subject:

South Carolina

S.C. County:

Berkeley County (S.C.)

Language:

English

Shelving Locator:

11-516A-32A (1134.00)

Date Digital:

2023-07

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:

290901