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[Identification of item], in the Borough House Books #1597, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Copied from Mrs. Walter White of Gates Mills, Ohio, in April 1949.

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• Anderson, John Benjamin, fl. 1853-1857.
• Borough House (Stateburg, S.C.)
• Childs, Thomas, 1796-1853.
• Diaries (Blank-books)
• Estates (Law)--South Carolina.
• Freedmen--South Carolina--Economic conditions.
• Gaillard, Samuel Porcher, 1811-1880.
• Hotels--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Medicine--Practice--Accounting--History--19th century.
• Physicians--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Plantations--South Carolina.
• Puebla de Zaragoza (Mexico)--Politics and government.
• Stateburg (S.C.)--History.
• Stateburg Democratic Club (S.C.)
• United States. Army--History--Mexican War, 1846-1848.

Records of several generations of the Anderson family, physicians and planters near Stateburg, S.C., chiefly their account books containing records of physicians' fees, planting, advances to freedmen, estates, and lumber. Also included are a diary, 1853-1857, of John Benjamin Anderson at Stateburg; Stateburg tavern accounts, 1834-1838; plantation records of Samuel Porcher Gaillard, 1863-1868; minutes of the Stateburg Democratic Club, 1890-1910; and a letterbook of Col. Thomas Childs (1796-1853) of Massachusetts as U.S. military governor of Puebla, Mexico, 1848.