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Lewis Malone Ayer papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-10367
Scope and Contents
The 1567 manuscripts in this collection document the economic and political activities of Lewis Malone Ayer (1769-1863), who served with Francis Marion in the Revolutionary War, and of his son, Lewis M. Ayer, Jr. (1821-1895), who served in the Confederate Congress. Topics discussed date to the Colonial era, the Revolutionary War, the Early National period, and the antebellum and Civil War periods.
Correspondence with factors, merchants, and other planters shows the growth, especially during...
Dates:
1769 - 1863
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
Singleton Family papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-5176
Scope and Contents
Chiefly correspondence, business records, and estate papers of Richard Singleton (1776-1852), including letter, 10 April 1823, from "Parson" Mason Locke Weems (Charleston, S.C.) to Richard Singleton (High Hills, Sumter District, S.C.), re mention of a box of books that Singleton had ordered, writing that he "took the liberty to place a little pamphlet of my own scribbling, just reprinted here a day or two ago. It is popular and Judge Waties who sat on the bench when the Heroine of this...
Dates:
1750-10-25 - 1956
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
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- Columbia (S.C.) -- Social life and customs. 1
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- Confederate States of America -- Economic conditions. 1
- Cotton -- Prices. 1
- Cotton growing -- Southern States. 1
- Cotton trade -- United States. 1
- Divorce -- United States. 1
- Embargo, 1807-1809. 1
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- Ayer, Lewis M., Jr. (Lewis Malone), 1821-1895 1
- Ayer, Lewis Malone, 1769-1863 1
- Brown, Tarleton, 1757-1845 1
- Elmore family 1
- Hammond, James Henry, 1807-1864 1
- Peeples, Darling, 1774-1850 1
- Singleton family 1
- Singleton, John Coles, 1813-1852 1
- Singleton, John, 1754-1820 1
- Singleton, Marion Videau, 1815-1862 1
- Singleton, Rebecca Travis Coles, 1782-1849 1
- Singleton, Richard, 1776-1852 1
- Stephen, William, Rev. 1
- Taylor family 1
- Van Buren, Angelica Singleton, 1816-1877 1
- Weems, M. L. (Mason Locke), 1759-1825 1
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