Feb 28, 2017 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
The estate inventory of John McPherson, made in December of 1806, lists enslaved ancestors at Laureum, Pine Comfort, Cotton Hall and Heneka Hill Plantations in Prince William Parish, Beaufort District, and Newton on Pon Pon in Colleton District, SC. This document was...
Mar 25, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
This letter was written by James Perkins of Jacksonboro, Colleton County, SC. Perkins, a veteran who served in Company K, 35th United States Colored Troops, was inquiring about bounty pay due him for his service from 1863 to 1866. Perkins asks that correspondence to...
Aug 25, 2012 | SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contract Colleton District, June 1865-Feb. 1868 Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA M1910, Roll 103, Target 5 TITLE OF CONTRACT: Frederick Fraser with...
May 19, 2010 | LCA Main Blog
Every now and then one of those remarkable documents comes along – the ones that bridge the 1870 Divide and positively link a freed person with a surname to a former slaveholder. In this case we come close. The Freedmen's Labor Contract below...
