Envelope of Milliken tombstone inscriptions; protested promissory note, 1833
Book 1, Page 213 ·1833
Transcription
Two items are pasted at the top of an otherwise blank album page.
Envelope (upper left)
A folded white envelope, sealed at the lower-right point with a small dark wax seal. Handwritten in blue ink across the face:
Inscriptions on Milliken Tombstones in Charleston S. C. Copied by Minnie F. S. Alston —
[The signer ‘Minnie F. S. Alston’ is Mary Anne Perry FitzSimons (“Minnie”), b. 1859, using her maiden FitzSimons initials as a middle between given and married names. The envelope’s contents — gravestone inscriptions for the Milliken family — are not separately mounted on this page.]
Promissory note slip (upper right)
A small narrow slip of aged paper, docketed in ink at the top in an early-nineteenth-century hand:
Barnard & Bro’s Note To Thomas Milliken $100. — Protested Nov. 4. 1833
Below the docket, faint additional writing in a smaller hand is largely [illegible], with what appears to be a figure ending in “$57.[–]” near the foot of the slip — possibly a notation of partial payment or a related charge.
AI Notes
Two items pasted at the top of an otherwise blank album page. Upper left: a folded white envelope sealed with a small dark wax seal, inscribed in blue ink as ‘Inscriptions on Milliken Tombstones in Charleston S. C. Copied by Minnie F. S. Alston.’ ‘Minnie F. S. Alston’ is Mary Anne Perry FitzSimons (‘Minnie’), b. 1859, signing with her maiden FitzSimons initials between given and married names. Upper right: a small slip of aged paper docketed in ink in an early-19th-century hand as a promissory note from Barnard & Bro to Thomas Milliken for $100, marked protested November 4, 1833 — the protest evidencing dishonor of the note. Thomas Milliken (the payee) was the father of Ellen Milliken Barker (1807–1874) — herself the mother of Susan Milliken Barker FitzSimons (1827–1900) by Samuel Gaillard Barker, so Susan was Thomas Milliken’s granddaughter. Faint additional writing on the slip below the docket is largely illegible — appears to record a partial payment or figure ending near ‘$57’ or similar.
Thomas Milliken was the father of Ellen Milliken Barker (1807–1874), who married Samuel Gaillard Barker; their daughter was Susan Milliken Barker FitzSimons (1827–1900), making Susan a granddaughter of the payee on this slip. The protested 1833 note thus represents a small fragment of family financial paper preserved through generations.