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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the William J. Ball books #1820, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Lent for filming by Mrs. D. E. Combe of Charleston, S.C., in June 1952.

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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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• Agriculture--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Agriculture--South Carolina--Societies, etc.--History--19th century.
• Ball family.
• Ball, William J., fl. 1847-1890.
• Berkeley County (S.C.)--History--19th century.
• Cedar Hill Plantation (S.C.)
• Charleston District (S.C.)--History.
• Enslaved persons--South Carolina--Social conditions.
• Halidon Hill Plantation (S.C.)
• Hyde Park Plantation (S.C.)
• Jericho Plantation (S.C.)
• Limerick Plantation (S.C.)
• Midway Plantation Site (S.C.)
• Plantations--South Carolina--Berkeley County.
• Quinby Plantation (S.C.)
• Slave records--South Carolina--Berkeley County.
• Strawberry Agricultural Society (S.C.)

• John Ball and Keating Simons Ball Books (#1811).

Records of three generations of the Ball family at a group of Cooper River plantations, Charleston District (later Berkeley County), S.C., including Cedar Hill, Halidon Hill, Hyde Park, Jericho, Limerick, Midway, and Quinby. Volumes include intermittent slave, planting, and weather records, 1804-1890; minutes, 1847-1858, of the Strawberry Agricultural Society; and a hog killing record, 1819-1834, detailing distribution of meat to slaves.