GRIMBALL FAMILY PAPERS, #980, 1683-1930
Correspondence, plantation accounts, and financial and legal papers of the Grimball family,
owners of Pinebury and Grove Plantations near Charleston, South Carolina. Correspondence
discusses attempts to locate former slaves (1865); leasing of
Grimball plantations, including Pinebury, which was leased to Adam Deas, believed to be a
former slave of the Grimball's (1871); a Ku Klux Klan incident (1871); and the arrest of an
African-American suspect in a shooting incident (1898). Financial materials contain bills of
sale for slaves bought by Martin L. Wilkins and John Berkley Grimball (1826); lists of items purchased for slaves (1858); and a
list of John Berkley Grimball's slaves who deserted to the Union Army (1862). Legal materials include an agreement with Henry Jenkins, a freed slave, to
cultivate rice (late 1860s), and a lease with Adam Deas (1871). Microfilm available.
