Thomas Legare's receipt book, 1767-1774, Charleston District, South Carolina [microform].

Author: Legare, Thomas, active 1760
Published: Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America, [1990]
Copyright Date: ©1990
Physical Description: 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
Additional Creators: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Series J, Selections from the Southern Historical Collection, Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Part 3, South Carolina ; reel.07-0150

Summary

Collection contains receipts written by various South Carolina planters to Thomas Legare, a commission merchant in Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1760s and 1770s. Most of the receipts resulted from Legare's sale of planters' crops, like rice and produce. Some receipts indicated that Legare acted as a commission agent for products like deer skins or slaves; he also operated as a supply merchant, buying construction materials and reselling them to local plantation owners.

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Legare, Thomas, active 1760—Archives
Commission merchants—South Carolina—Charleston District—History—18th century—Sources
Merchants—South Carolina—Charleston District—History—18th century—Sources
Plantation life—South Carolina—Charleston District—History—18th century—Sources
South Carolina—History—Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775—Sources

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