Overseer's Daybook (Westwood Plantation)
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0230
Original daybook and typed transcript. The daybook contains daily accounts of work undertaken (up to 1830, mostly by slaves), weather conditions, expenses, illnesses, holidays, burials and cultivation and planting records. There are also wage records and copies of poetry, song lyrics and other items. The transcript was prepared under the title of "Overseer's Day Book of a Small Plantation 1822-1917" by Lula May McNinch of Columbia, SC, in 1936 as part of W.P.A. Project 65-33-118, which was sponsored by the University of South Carolina and supervised by Dr. Anne K. Gregorie and Flora B. Surles.
William T. Newell was likely an overseer for Westwood Plantation [Abbeville County, South Carolina?] during the period 1822-1830. A Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) listing of tombstone inscriptions for Long Canes Cemetery in Abbeville County shows a William T. Newell as having died on August 19, 1875, at age 80.
2 item(s)
English
Original daybook deposited by D.E. Newell, Jr. and received by William Hayne Mills, Professor of Rural Sociology at Clemson College, before 1936. Accession 81-6 (formerly 82-3).
Part of the Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Repository