'Gaillard Family papers, 1758–1901' (SCHS 1033.00) — Peter Gaillard Sr. planting book & plantation accounts, p2
Book 4, Page 28 ·1758–1832
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A typeset PDF page produced by the South Carolina Historical Society — the second page of the finding aid for the Gaillard Family papers. The top half of the page completes the Library of Congress-style search terms list begun on page 1; the bottom half opens the item-level inventory.
Gaillard family.
Gaylord family.
Pineville Jockey Club (S.C.) – Records and correspondence.
Smith & Groning.
Plantations – South Carolina.
Slave records – South Carolina.
Slaves – South Carolina.
South Carolina – History.
The Rocks Plantation (Orangeburg County, S.C.)
Genre: Account books.
Estate records.
Journal.
Legal documents.
Plats.
11/149/1 Gaillard, Peter. 1757–1833
Planting book, 1803–1825. 1 vol.
St. John’s and St. Stephen’s parish planters. Planting records and journal (1803–1825) of PG’s plantations The Rocks, Headen Hill, Peyre’s land, St. John’s Parish, Berkeley; Laurel Hill and Swamp Place, St. Stephen’s Parish, Berkeley Co; and others. Appraisals of conditions, progress, planting, and yield of crops including corn, peas, potatoes, oats, clover and blackseed, and greenseed cotton. Accounts of cattle and other livestock. Scattered listings of carpenter work, purchase of wine and liquor, tax records for PG’s lands, agreements with overseers. Much material regarding slaves including lists of slaves, record of blankets, hoes, and shirts given to the slaves, lists of slaves sent off for road work duty, other work details, scatter notations of slave life. Notes on experiments in growing cotton, corn, potatoes, and other crops. Recipe for the preservation of wood (pg. 55), cures for whooping cough (pg. 32), dropsy (pg. 36), dysentery (pg. 37) and other ailments.
11/149/2 Gaillard, Peter Sr., 1757–1833
Plantation accounts & memos, 1783–1832. 1 ms. vol.
Berkeley Co. planter. Plantation and other accounts & memo book (1783–1832) of PG Sr. Includes sundry accounts of PG Sr. (1801–1825). Tax returns for PG Sr.'s Charleston and Berkeley County land (1824–1831), a remedy for dropsy, memoranda of furniture and silver (1829), listing of children of PG Sr. and their birth and death dates, list of slaves’ births and deaths (1783–1832), memoranda for painting house in Charleston (1824).
11/149/3–13 Gaillard, Peter 1757–1833
Papers, 1758–1832. 17 items
St. Stephens planter. Grants, leases, plats and other land documents of PG, Tacitus Gaillard and others. Included are grant (1771) to William Flud in St. Johns Berkeley; marriage settlement and bond (1792–1793) of Samuel Miller and Ann Findlay; land conveyance (1795) to PG for land in St. Stephens parish; lease (1763) of Tacitus Gaillard land to Charles Cantey; indenture (1758); plat (1758) of St. Johns, Berkeley land; estate book (1781–1808) of Theodore Gaillard including will, list of slaves and their prices, and estate accounts; release in fee (1804) for Pineville land;
[Description of 11/149/3–13 continues on page 3.]
Source: South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, S.C., Gaillard Family papers, 1758–1901 (collection 1033.00, container 11/149), finding aid, page 2. The source PDF is archived in this repository at additionalDocumentation/Gaillard-Family-papers-1033.00.pdf.
AI Notes
Page 2 of the SCHS finding aid for the Gaillard Family papers (collection 1033.00), continuing from page 1. The page completes the Library of Congress-style search terms list and then begins the item-level inventory of the collection, covering three sub-units:
- 11/149/1 — Peter Gaillard’s planting book (1803–1825): a single bound volume of planting records and journal entries for The Rocks and several adjacent plantations (Headen Hill, Peyre’s land, Laurel Hill, Swamp Place), with crop appraisals (corn, peas, potatoes, oats, clover and blackseed, greenseed cotton), livestock accounts, overseer agreements, tax records, and — in extended sections — lists of enslaved people and the blankets, hoes, and shirts issued to them, lists of those “sent off for road work duty,” and other work details. The volume also preserves several household medical recipes including cures for whooping cough (p. 32), dropsy (p. 36), and dysentery (p. 37), and a recipe for the preservation of wood (p. 55) — placing it alongside the household receipt-books typical of early-19th-century Lowcountry plantations.
- 11/149/2 — Peter Gaillard’s plantation accounts & memos book (1783–1832): a separate manuscript volume of sundry accounts (1801–1825), Charleston- and Berkeley-County tax returns (1824–1831), an additional remedy for dropsy, a 1829 memorandum of furniture and silver, a Charleston house-painting memorandum (1824), and — most useful for family genealogists — a listing of Peter Gaillard Sr.'s children with birth and death dates and a separate list of enslaved people’s births and deaths (1783–1832).
- 11/149/3–13 — A bundle of 17 land and family documents covering 1758–1832, including the 1758 plat of St. John’s Berkeley land, a 1763 lease of Tacitus Gaillard land to Charles Cantey, a 1771 grant to William Flud, the 1792–1793 marriage settlement and bond of Samuel Miller and Ann Findlay, and the estate book (1781–1808) of Theodore Gaillard (1710–1781) including his will, list of enslaved people and their prices, and estate accounts. The bundle continues onto page 3 of the finding aid.
Two of these item-level descriptions are particularly relevant to the album’s record: the family birth/death notes in 11/149/2 would provide the documentary check needed to confirm or revise the album’s Gaillard-line tradition (the obituary at book-001/p134 names the émigré as “Pierre Gaillard 1685” — the finding aid’s biographical note instead documents Joachim Gaillard, b. 1625, arrived ca. 1687); and the estate book (1781–1808) of Theodore Gaillard in 11/149/3–13 would be the source through which any descent claim from the album’s “Theodore Gaillard” line back to the émigré can be primary-source verified.