Letter from Hyde Park Plantation Overseer Jesse Coward to John Ball, October 11, 1833

Title:

Letter from Hyde Park Plantation Overseer Jesse Coward to John Ball, October 11, 1833

Date:

1833

Creator (Personal):

Coward, Jesse

Description:

A letter from Hyde Park Plantation overseer Jesse Coward to John Ball in Charleston discussing the corn crop, the mill pond, sickness on the plantation, the enslaved man August under Dr. Edward's care who believes August is suffering from consumption, the enslaved women and children gathering peas, and Lucy confined for giving birth to a boy.

Collection Title:

Ball Family Papers, 1631-1895

Contributing Institution:

South Carolina Historical Society

Media Type:

Manuscripts

Personal or Corporate Subject:

Ball family

Topical Subject:

Slave records, Tuberculosis, Plantations--South Carolina, Slavery--South Carolina, Physicians, Letters, Corn, Ponds, Crops, Plantation overseers, Birth, Sick, Letter writing, Enslaved women, Enslaved persons, and Enslaved children

Geographic Subject:

South Carolina

S.C. County:

Berkeley County (S.C.)

Language:

English

Shelving Locator:

11-516A-34B (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:

291006