Woodlawn Plantation House, Berkeley County, SC
Historic American Buildings Survey, www.loc.gov
Freedmen’s Bureau labor contracts were some of the earliest records which listed former slaves with newly-chosen surnames.
These records, which predate the 1870 census by several years, can provide clues for breaking through the 1870 Brick Wall by connecting census records with surnames to plantation journals with first names only.
Lowcountry Africana Co-Administrator Alana Thevenet has transcribed labor contracts for Berkeley County, SC. Here you will find records for slaveholder surnames beginning with the letter “N.”
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Freedmen’s Labor Contract
Berkeley County, SC, 1866
Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872
NARA Record Group 105
MC 1910, Reel 62, Target 3
TITLE OF CONTRACT:
James R. Noble & Calvin Tyson, freedman
DATE OF CONTRACT:
March 20, 1866
PLACES MENTIONED IN CONTRACT:
Berkeley County
South Carolina
SC
Mount Pleasant, S.C.
Fishbrook Plantation
NAMES OF FREEDPERSONS
Calvin Tyson
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts
Berkeley County, SC, 1868
Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872
NARA Record Group 105
M1910, Reel 63, Target 2
TITLE OF CONTRACT:
J.L. Nowell and the Freedmen & women
DATE OF CONTRACT:
March 2, 1868
PLACES MENTIONED IN CONTRACT:
Berkeley County
South Carolina
SC
Belle Vue Plantation
NAMES OF FREEDPERSONS
Samuel Flagg, Foreman
Joe Bennett
Amos Bennett
Mary
Fanny Flagg
Hanibal Maxwell
Sylla Manigault
Lizzy Hadwell
Stepney Manigault
Lucy Ford
Libby Camel
Aaron Flagg
Charles Campbell
Betsy Campbell
Ned Hinds, carpenter
Peter Alston
Hannah Alston
Ria Murray
Isabella
C(illegible) Wells
Jane Wells
Romeo Maguire
Sukey Maguire
