Mss 77-6

Most, if not all of the items were assembled by the Allston family.  In chronological order, the collection contains the following documents:

1733/34 March 1
Copy of a plat of 176 acres on the Pee Dee River and Squirrel Creek granted to George Pawley and surveyed by Matt Drake (copied in 1824 and certified by Robert F.W. Allston, Surveyor General of South Carolina).

1780 July 29
Printed parole granted by General Henry Clinton with conditions filled in by hand.  The document is signed by the surgeon, 5th Continental Regiment.

1787 January 29
Broadside offering shares in a company created "for cleaning and making navigable Edisto River, and the Forks thereof–for opening a communication between Edisto and Ashley Rivers, by a Canal and Locks, and for clearing the latter...."  The document is signed with a list of subscribers' names and shares.  The State Legislature had approved the creation of this company and had agreed to give the subscribers priority for land grants in areas made accessible for navigation.

1795 June 29
Printed circular letter by US Senator Robert Goodloe Harper addressed only to "Dear Sir" (evidently a letter to major constituents) from Philadelphia outlining the stipulations of the controversial Jay Treaty with Great Britain.

1795 July 29
Letter from J[ohn] Rutledge to the Governor [Arnoldus Vanderhorst] resigning as Chief Justice of South Carolina to become Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.

1854 February 15
Fragmentary copy of the Pee Dee Times.

1856 February 14
Stock certificate issued by the Bank of Charleston for 25 shares to R. Mure in trust for Grace Carson.

1859 May 28
Issue of Harper's Weekly with a lengthy obituary for Alexander Humboldt and with related illustrations and articles.

1863 February 1
South Carolina paper currency issued by the Bank of the State of South Carolina for fifty cents.

1864
Title page of Miller's Planters' & Merchants' State Rights Almanac... signed by A. Allston.

1874 October 20
An unsigned holograph "Description of the great-gale of 1874 as seen from Sullivan's Island" (a poetic description of the Hurricane of 1874).

1886 September 2
Account of the Charleston Earthquake of 1886 from the New York World.

1895 April 6
The Meteor, "the Colonial Dames' Supplement to the News & Courier."

n.d.
"Recipes from the Text book of Nursing & Food for invalid wine whey" (excerpt copied by hand).

n.d.
Broadside advertising "Dotterer's sulky rice planter..." offered by T.D. Dotterer and the manufacturer, Eason's Iron Works, Charleston (S.C.).  Printed by [J]oseph Walker with a photograph by Osburn (c. 1880; the two-wheeled apparatus was operated by a driver who regulated both the speed of a horse and the flow of the seed).

n.d.
Linen handkerchief with embroidered flowers.