--part1_43.101e10d3.27ab3222_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_43.101e10d3.27ab3222_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-yb05.mx.aol.com (rly-yb05.mail.aol.com [172.18.146.5]) by air-yb01.mail.aol.com (v77.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Feb 2001 15:27:54 -0500 Received: from sol.rune.org (sol.rune.org [207.201.197.191]) by rly-yb05.mx.aol.com (v77.27) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Feb 2001 15:26:42 1900 Received: (from [email protected]) by sol.rune.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA00650 for LOWCOUNTRY-outgoing; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:18:19 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: sol.rune.org: mail set sender to [email protected] using -f Received: from femail9.sdc1.sfba.home.com ([email protected] [24.0.95.89]) by sol.rune.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA00647 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:18:17 -0500 Received: from cc90185b ([24.10.5.60]) by femail9.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <[email protected]>; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:18:18 -0800 Reply-To: <[email protected]> From: "Nancy D. Peeples" <[email protected]> To: "Lowcountry" <[email protected]>, "Edisto Island" <[email protected]> Subject: [LC] Freedmen Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:22:31 -0500 Message-ID: <[email protected]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: [email protected] Precedence: bulk Daufuskie Island John Stoddard Trustee "Bloody Point", "Melrose Plantation", "Cooper River", "Mary Field" . . .for the restoration of Bloody Point Plantation, Daufuskie Island, SC having entered into an agreement by lease with the freedmen residing thereon and lease having approved by the Board of Supervisors and said plantation being held by the Bureau . . . Jan 13, 1866 . . . for the restoration of "Melrose" Plantation, Daufuskie Island, SC having entered into an agreement by lease with the freedmen residing thereon and lease having been approved by the Board of Supervisors and said plantation being now held by the Bureau . . . Jan 13, 1866 . . .for the restoration of "Cooper River" plantation Daufuskie Island, SC having entered into an agreement by lease with the freedmen resident thereon and lease having been approved by the Board of Supervisors and said plantation being now held by the Bureau . . . Jan 13, 1866 . . .for the restoration of a plantation on Daufuskie Island, So. Ca. known as "Maryfield" said plantation being unoccupied by Refugees or Freedmen, and no assignment of land having been made thereon pursuant to GEn. Sherman's S.F.O. No. 15 and being now held by the Bureau . . . Jan 8, 1866 Prince Williams Parish St. Bartholomews Parish "Cypress" stepfather John C. Whaley next friend of the infant children of Henry F. Ferguson children FAnnie B. Ferguson, John Ferguson, Frasier Ferguson, _______ Ferguson The petiton of John C. Whaley a loyal citizen of the State and United States aforesaid shows that by his marriage with the widow of the late Henry F. Ferguson he became the stepfather of his infant children by him said Fannie B. Ferguson, John Ferguson, Frasier Ferguson and Henry(?) Ferguson. That they have no _______ constitution(?) __ _______ _______ petitoner must act for them that they are entitled to the plantations the one lying in Prince Williams Parish in Beaufort District and the other in St. Bartholomews Parish in Colleton District in the State aforesaid. That the first names plantation has nver been planted by those entrusted with the same of the said children. That the second plnatation was on behalf of them cultivated by their mother and step-father your petitioner until military operations rendered the same impracticable. The said ________ the country was such that those entrusted(?) in behalf of the children could no longer control the possession of these lands. Your petitioner on behalf of said children prays that ___ __ _____ ______ restoring(?) the possession of these lands to the petitioner or some one exhibiting (rest missing) sworn by JOhn C. Whaley in Orangeburg Dist Sept. 1865 Henry Ellis No. Pub. John C. Whaley has dark complexion, dark hair, blue eyes, 5'9" high, 47(41?) years by profession a planter 4 pages unreadable one page partially able to read: 1. Cypress Plantation of Late John Ferguson in Prince Williams Parish Beaufort District. 2. Dr. Bullard (?) and for Gibbes Place in St. Bartholomews Colleton Disrict Skidaway Island, Ga. "Modena" W. R. Nelson . . .for the restoration of his plantation on SKidaway Isalnd, Ga. known as "Modena" the same being occupied by freedmen who hae entered into a contract for labor with the said Nelson said contract having been approved by the supervisory board and said plantation being held by the bureau . . . --part1_43.101e10d3.27ab3222_boundary--