Author Topic: Not sure if this fits: but a piece of colonial history  (Read 610 times)

Offline Salkehatchie

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Not sure if this fits: but a piece of colonial history
« on: September 10, 2024, 05:28:57 PM »
Cleaning up files on my computer, ran across this and...thought it might be interesting.

Its an estate inventory from an ancestor in SC in 1772.  I found it interesting to see what was on it and...the relative market price/appraisals of each.  Particularly the rifle gun, smooth bore and...bee hives!  Starts on the left hand side down.  Abraham Hollingsworth.  There are two other estates listed on the page with item details as well.

A little glance at life in Colonial South Carolina.




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Offline HSmithTX

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Re: Not sure if this fits: but a piece of colonial history
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2024, 06:15:56 PM »
Super neat, thanks for posting!!

Offline rich pierce

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Re: Not sure if this fits: but a piece of colonial history
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2024, 08:21:07 PM »
Excellent. Seems like a successful farmer. Have you transcribed it?
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Re: Not sure if this fits: but a piece of colonial history
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2024, 08:58:06 PM »
Rich:

No, have not.  And there is another one.  An associate/cousin of this family that was earlier.  1740s or such.  He was a trader out of Charleston and his estate inventory was 11 pages long.  Had all kinds of items in it.  I distinctly recall a barrel of trade knives being listed.  A barrel of them.  I need to dig that out of my files, photocopy and load into the forum. Most of my people were either Quakers or French Huguenots.  The trader was French.

Maybe when it gets cold out...

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Re: Not sure if this fits: but a piece of colonial history
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2024, 09:13:11 PM »
I’d love to see these. Very cool insight into past lives.
Andover, Vermont