In the last entry, we created a brief research plan for several record groups available online. Having completed the research, the information located, and citations for the sources searched, appear below in the research log.
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Ancestry.com
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1880 Federal Census
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Robert S. Tarleton household
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SOURCE: 1880 U. S. Census, Colleton Co., S. C., pop sched, Blake Twp., ED 100, SD 2, pg. 19, dwg. 248, fam 250; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 Dec 2010); citing FHL microfilm 1,255,226.
R. S. Tarlton, B, age 48, Farmer
Nanny [Tarlton], B, age 38, Wife
Nancy [Tarlton], B, age 14, Daughter
Joseph [Tarlton], B, age 12, Son
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Ancestry.com
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1900 Federal Census
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Robert S. Tarleton household
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SOURCE: 1900 U. S. Census, Colleton Co., S. C., pop sched, Blake Twp., ED 39, SD 1, sheet 4B, dwg. 89, fam 89; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 Dec 2010); citing NARA microfilm T623, roll 1524.
Robert Tarleton, Head, B, b. Jan 1835, age 65, married 40 years, Farmer, owned home
Florence [Tarleton], Wife, B, b. Sep 1840, age 60 [sic], married 40 years, mother of 1 child, 1 child living
Sarah [Tarleton], Daughter, B, b. Nov 1870, age 29
[ibid], dwg. 90, fam 90
Joseph Tarleton, Head, B, b. May 1867, age 33, married 10 years, Farm Laborer
Mary [Tarleton], Wife, B, b. Jan 1869, age 31, married 10 years, mother of 2 children, 2 children living
Samuel [Tarleton], Son, B, b. Mar 1892, age 8
Frederick [Tarleton], Son, B, b. May 1895, age 5
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Ancestry.com
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1910 Federal Census
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Robert S. Tarleton household
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Not located – searched for “Tarleton” and phonetic/Soundex variants, in “Colleton County, South Carolina, USA” and “South Carolina, USA”
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Ancestry.com
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1920 Federal Census
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Robert S. Tarleton household
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Not located – searched for “Tarleton” and phonetic/Soundex variants, in “Colleton County, South Carolina, USA” and “South Carolina, USA”
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Ancestry.com
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1930 Federal Census
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Robert S. Tarleton household
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Not located – searched for “Tarleton” and phonetic/Soundex variants, in “Colleton County, South Carolina, USA” and “South Carolina, USA”
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Lowcountry Africana
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Colleton County Freedmen’s Bureau
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Tarleton work contracts
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SOURCE: “Freedmen’s Labor Contracts, Colleton County, South Carolina, 1866,” digital transcripts w/ images, Lowcountry Africana (http://lowcountryafricana.net/colleton_labor_contracts_a_thr.asp : accessed 3 Dec 2010)
None located
SOURCE: “Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office Reports Colleton County, SC,” digital images, Lowcountry Africana (http://lowcountryafricana.net/freedmens-bureau-field-records.asp : accessed 3 Dec 2010); citing Records of the Field Offices, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872, NARA Micropublication 1910 [sic], Reel 103.
Page-by-page search conducted. No “Tarleton” (or variants) records located.
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South Carolina Archives
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Online Indexes
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References to Robert S. Tarleton
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No references located using the index search engine. The following record located using a “browse” search method.
SOURCE: “Militia Enrollments of Men Between The Ages of 30 and 45 for Colleton County,” digital image, South Carolina Archives & History, (http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/Thumbnails.aspx?recordId=308682 : accessed 3 Dec 2010); citing Series no. S192021, “Militia Enrollments of 1869,” Volume 9, pg. 10, entry no. 135, for Robert Toolton, Blake Township. Robert Toolton, age 31, Farmer, Blake Twp., colored |
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Google
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Google Books
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References to Robert S. Tarleton
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SOURCE: South Carolina General Assembly, Joint Investigating Committee on Public Frauds, Report of the Joint Investigating Committee on Public Frauds and Election of Hon. J.J. Patterson to the United States Senate…Part 3 (Columbia, S. C.: state printers, 1878), pg. 314; digital images, Google Books (http://www.books.google.com : accessed 3 Dec 2010).
“Testimony of R. S. Tarleton.
October 3, 1873. R. S. Tarleton, sworn, says:
Lives in Colleton County ; was a member of the House for four years, commencing in 1870; received money from A. O. Jones, Clerk of the House and one of the Republican Printing Company, for his votes on printing Bills; recognizes his signature on check No. 195, February 27, 1873, for $100, signed by Jones. Jones sent me to Benedict at another lime and he gave me $100 in certificates of indebtedness.
R. S. TARLETON.”
SOURCE: ibid., pg. 632-633.
“Testimony of R. S. Tarleton.
October 3, 1877.
R. S. Tarleton, sworn, says :
Resides in Colleton County, Green Pond or Whitehall P. O. “Was a member of the Legislature of 1870-71, 1871-72, 1872-73, 1873-74, House of Representatives. Voted for the Blue Ridge Scrip Bill. I received $100 from John J. Patterson, over Hardy Solomon’s bank, for it. Patterson said nothing to me about the Bill. H. G. Worthington told me that if I voted for the Bill that I would get something. We went into one door and came out at another at Solomon’s. After the Bill was passed I went up to this place and John J. Patterson asked me my name. I told him R. S. Tarleton. He looked on his list and then counted me out the money ($100).
R. S. TARLETON.”
SOURCE: ibid., pg. 880.
“R. S. Tarleton, member from Colleton, testifies that Worthington told him that if he would vote for Patterson he would get something; that he voted for Patterson, and received in an envelope seventy-five dollars, and was told to go to Patterson’s house; that he went accordingly with Abram Dannerly, of Orangeburg, and afterwards applied to Worthington at the Custom House, but failed to receive any more.
“Abram Dannerly, member from Orangeburg, testifies that Patterson promised to give him some money if he voted for him, and paid him fifty dollars at the bank. That Patterson said he had $50,000 or $60,000 to spend on his election. That subsequently Patterson fixed the amount for his vole and influence at $400; that Worthington, on the morning of the election, told him that he would see that he (Dannerly) got the $400. That after the election Worthington handed him twenty-five dollars, at which he was quite indignant. That he called with Representative Robert Tarleton, of Colleton, at Patterson’s house to get the balance due, but that Patterson, after offering them liquor and cigars, said he was busy and would see them again.”
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Note several aspects of this research log:
- full source citations have been included;
- where no information was located, the type of search/search terms were included;
- abstracted information does not appear in quotation marks, but quoted information does.
The next step is to identify any clues to additional records or information that may be contained within the records located. This will be addressed in the next article.