Lewis O’Bryan Papers, 1834-1857 - Gifts to Manuscripts Division Announced 2005 (USCS) - South Caroliniana Library - University Libraries

Lewis O’Bryan Papers, 1834-1857
A gift to the SCL Manuscripts Division announced in 2005

Four manuscripts, 1834-1857, relate to enslaved African Americans owned by Lewis O’Bryan, of Colleton District, S.C.

A 13 June 1834 bill of sale from William S. Price, Walterboro, S.C., conveys "two Negroes" for $550—a boy Limus, aged about twelve, and a girl Sue, aged ten years. A second bill of sale, 13 April 1841, documents O’Bryan’s purchase of five slaves, Hannah and four children, Joe, Kewa, Frank, and Daphney, from John Boyle via agent Tho[ma]s N. Gadsden. A receipt dated 22 April 1841 from William Furgerson, of Colleton District, acknowledges O’Bryan’s payment of $300 for Liddy, a girl aged about nine years.

Also present is an order in equity, 2 June 1857, to deliver slaves Sarah, Plenty, March, Jim, Harry, Clara, Nanny, and an infant child of Sarah to Lewis A. O’Bryan, trustee for Margaret Jones under a marriage settlement in the case of Margaret Jones "by next friend" Lewis A. O’Bryan v. Lewis M. Jones and Lewis O’Bryan. The order was issued by J[ob] Johnston[e]; a true copy made 20 September 1861 bears the signature of W.F.B. Haynsworth.

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