James Hamilton papers

Descriptive Summary
Title: James Hamilton papers
Creator: Hamilton, James, 1763-1829
Inclusive Dates: 1785-1868
Language(s): English
Extent: 1.5 Linear Feet 2 boxes
Collection Number: ms1611
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Historical Note

James Hamilton (d. 1829), merchant, plantation owner, lived in Charleston (S.C.) and Philadelphia (Pa.) and had land holdings, including Hamilton Plantation, on St. Simons Island, Georgia.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of papers of James Hamilton from 1785-1868. Papers concern mostly business matters relating to the Hamilton's merchant/factory businesses of McCredie & Hamilton and Hamilton & Couper of Charleston, South Carolina. Records include receipts, shipping records, accounts for sales, and invoices. The collection also includes correspondence from Paris, Liverpool, Rotterdam, Stockholm, Savannah, Baltimore, Embden, St. Simons, Tybee, Palmetto Grove, Wilmington, N.C., Georgetown, and various inlets. Several letters report on conditions of Hamilton's plantation, including crops and people who are enslaved.

Organization and Arrangement

Arranged roughly in chronological order.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

James Hamilton papers, ms 1611, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Finding Aid Publication

Finding aid prepared on: 2020.

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Related Materials and Subjects

Subject Terms

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

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Account for rice sales, 1785

 

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Letter regarding payment for shipments including indigo, 1786 March 6

 

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John S. Cripps bill from the owners of the ship Caroline for sail twine and barrels of tar, 1796

 

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Account for sales, 1789

 

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Letter to McCredie & Hamilton from Francis Morais, London regarding balance due, 1787

 

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Warrant for Richard Jenkins, 1793

 

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Bill of sale for an enslaved man named Lewie, 1798

 

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Promissory note , 1790

 

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Bill of sales of a Boatman named Jack, 1799 April 1

 

1	10	Articles and Role D'Equipage & signed affidavits of seamen leaving from the Port of Charleston, South Carolina for Naples and other ports of the Mediterranean, 1800 October
		Includes the names of the master, mate, and mariners, place of birth, residence, citizenship, age, height, description, and wages. Lists an enslaved mariner John Bowers, 28 years old.

 

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Promissory note for William Fiddy, 1797

 

1	12	Accounts of cash received; bills of sales; freight accounts, 1803
		Includes rope and sail makers; beef, butter, veal and tongue; freight on board the Isabella captained by Daniel Greene, includes illustration of freight marks

 

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Shipping records and manifest (cotton, coffee, rice, and deer skin) of the Ship Isabella; letter to J. Hamilton; agreement with John Couper to purchase seven enslaved people, 1802

 

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Account with sales; Isabella Shipwrights bill; Articles and Role D'Equipage & signed affidavits of seamen leaving from the Port of Charleston, South Carolina for Liverpool and then to the coast of Africa, 1804

 

1	15	Legal documents; receipts; shipping records; letters; accounts for sales; promissory notes, 1805
		Includes letters from the St. Simon's Hamilton plantation

 

1	16	Accounts for sales; circular; letters; shipping records; receipts, 1806
		Includes receipts for medical attention and clothes for enslaved population at Hamilton and Palmetto Grove plantations

 

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Shipping records; receipts, 1807

 

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Letter to James Hamilton from Samuel Mathis, Camden, 1808 May 28

 

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Account received for tea, sugar, decanters, glasses, and jugs, 1809

 

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Receipt of payment for porting ship Isabella, 1810 April 4

 

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Letters, 1811

 

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Description of the remaining lots of the Wharton estate , 1812

 

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Shipping records, 1815

 

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Balance sheets; account for sales, 1817

 

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Letters, 1818

 

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Receipts of payment for renting house of Jeremiah Emblen and subscription to Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 1823

 

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Court document, Court of Philadelphia, annual sum for Isabella, Elizabeth, and Richard Corbin, 1837

 

1	28	Receipts of payment, 1845
		Includes indenture receipt of Riley Haimons "free negroe"; receipt for an enslaved woman named Fany; sale of enslaved person

 

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Receipt of payment for executions, 1843

 

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Receipt, The Tredegar Company, Richmond, 1868 September 22

 

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Shipping paper; letter, undated

 

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Indentures, 1852, 1858