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[Identification of item], in the John Palmer Account Books, #2793, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Account books.
• Benoist, John.
• Berkeley County (S.C.)--History--18th century.
• Estates (Law)--South Carolina.
• Fitzgerald, John.
• Gravel Hill Plantation (Berkeley County, S.C.)
• Monk, John.
• Palmer, John, fl. 1750-1756.
• Palmer, John, fl. 1778-1784.
• Plantations--South Carolina--Berkeley County.
• Richmond Plantation (Berkeley County, S.C.)
• Slave records--South Carolina.
• United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Destruction and pillage.

MICROFILM ONLY. An account book, 1750-1756, kept by John Palmer of Gravel Hill Plantation, probably in what is now Berkeley County, S.C., and an account book, 1778-1784, kept by John Palmer Junior, of Richmond Plantation, also probably in what is now Berkeley County. Included are accounts from the estates of John Monk and John Benoist, slave lists, mercantile accounts, and a memoranda of bonds and notes of John Fitzgerald that were destroyed by British troops in 1781.