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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Stoney and Porcher Family Papers #823, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Lent for filming by Charlotte M. Stoney of Charleston, S.C., in March 1944.

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Arithmetic--Study and teaching--South Carolina.
• Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 16th--Registers.
• Croft family.
• Croft, Theodore Gaillard.
• Diaries (Blank-books)
• Dubois family.
• Jenkins family.
• Plantations--South Carolina.
• Porch family.
• Porcher, Isaac DuBose, 1832-1866.
• Slavery--South Carolina.
• South Carolina--Genealogy.
• Stoney family.
• Stoney, C. M.
• Stoney, Peter Gaillard, 1809-1884.

Records of a Charleston District, S.C., plantation, comprised of five parts: 1) Ophir plantation diary, notes, and records in five volumes, representing the years 1788, 1824, and 1826-1829; 2) miscellaneous letters and documents of members of the Porcher, Dubose, Croft, and Jenkins families of South Carolina, including genealogical records, letters and documents written between 1833 and 1861, and one undated letter written after the Civil War; 3) papers belonging to Peter Gaillard Stoney, including an arithmetic notebook of C. M. Stoney and plantation notes, 1832-1860, which record the names and activities of slaves at "Back River" during the years 1835, 1844, 1854, and 1858-1860; 4) diary of Isaac DuBose Porcher, January 1855-June 1860, moral philosophy lecture notes, and a contract for Ophir Plantation; and 5) a roster, belonging to Captain T. Gaillard Croft of Co. C, 16th Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, C.S.A., 1862.