The Collection consists of a copy of a charter, deeds/indentures, an estate account, land grants, leases, a military commission, plats/surveys and transcriptions of some of those documents. Most of the material is from South Carolina but the states of Alabama, Georgia, Illinois and Pennsylvania, as well as the country of Great Britain, are also represented.

Among the items in the Collection are: a November 23, 1622, lease of Baker's Close, near Southampton, Great Britain, to Alice Mills by Barnaby Potter and others, with transcriptions of same; a grant for 775 acres of land in Craven County, SC, from George II issued to Arthur Foster on February 7, 1735, and an undated transcription of same by Dr. William Hayne Mills; a plat and grant for 500 acres of land along the Black River in South Carolina from George III issued to Joseph Forgartis on August 26, 1774, witnessed by William Bull; a December 3, 1798, plat and deed granted to General Andrew Pickens for a 162 acre tract of land along the Seneca River, Washington District, SC, signed by Governor Charles Pinckney; a September 15, 1815, lease of 515 acres of land in York County, SC, to John Anderson by the Catawba Indians and an undated transcription of same likely done by Dr. William Hayne Mills; a grant for land in South Carolina from George III issued to Richard Benbow on May 7, 1767, copied October, 8, 1819; and a certificate granting land in Lowndes County, AL, to John Till by President Millard Fillmore, February 2, 1852. Also included is a photographic copy, printed by the North Carolina Department of Archives and History in 1954, of page one of the Carolina Charter of 1633, with portraits of King Charles II of Great Britain and seven of the eight Lords Proprietors of the Carolina colony and the full text of the Charter.