Slaves at the Rice Hope Plantation of J. Harleston Read, Berkeley, SC, 1860

The estate inventory of J. Harleston Read lists the names of 132 enslaved ancestors at Rice Hope Plantation near Moncks Corner, Berkeley County, South Carolina. The inventory was taken 29 November 1859 and filed 20 June 1860.

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Names indexed in this document:

· J Harleston Read - Estate

· Benjamin H Read

· Mousa - slave

· Amelia - slave

· Delia - slave

· Frank - slave

· Clarinda - slave

· Binah - slave

· Martha - slave

· Daphne - slave

· Infant - slave

· Isaac - slave

· Judy - slave

· Phillis - slave

· Primus - slave

· More - slave

· Rachel - slave

· Mary - slave

· Betsey - slave

· Isaac - slave

· Francis - slave

· Sam - slave

· Paul - slave

· Hannah - slave

· June - slave

· Thomas - slave

· Paris - slave

· Fortune - slave

· Suky - slave

· Cinda - slave

· Caroline - slave

· Ezekiel - slave

· infant - slave

· Daphne - slave

· William - slave

· Anah - slave

· Old Joe - slave

· Bess - slave

· Harriet - slave

· Dick - slave

· Smart - slave

· Old Caesar - slave

· Scipio - slave

· Betty - slave

· Nelly - slave

· Daniel - slave

· Patty - slave

· Edda - slave

· Rose - slave

· Monday - slave

· Esther - slave

· Lucy - slave

· Penelope - slave

· Ned - slave

· Charles - slave

· Leamor - slave

· Michael - slave

· Mary Ann - slave

· Louisa - slave

· Hester - slave

· Betty - slave

· Patty - slave

· Stephen - slave

· Betsey - slave

· Nelly - slave

· Bob - slave

· Christiana - slave

· Sampson - slave

· Lizzie - slave

· Ben - slave

· Joe - slave

· Lina - slave

· Sampson - slave

· Geoffry - slave

· Warnic - slave

· Caroline - slave

· Cotto - slave

· Phillip - slave

· Cupid - slave

· Robert - slave

· John - slave

· tom - slave

· Molly - slave

· Bella - slave

· Jim - slave

· Billy - slave

· Pleasant - slave

· Old Venus - slave

· Ben - slave

· Jack - slave

· Grace - slave

· Bob - slave

· Marcus - slave

· Lizzie - slave

· Charles - slave

· Juno - slave

· Louisa - slave

· infant - slave

· William - slave

· Rinah - slave

· Hector - slave

· Ben - slave

· Beck - slave

· Henry - slave

· Sylvia - slave

· Edward - slaved

· Charinda - slave

· Samuel - slave

· Grace - slave

· Dolly - slave

· John Harlston

· Keatg S Ball

· W P Massey

· Sally - slave

· Abram - slave

· Edmund - slave

· Isaac - slave

· Adam - slave

· Catherine - slave

· George - slave

· Scipio - slave

· Jack - slave

· Aleryn - slave

· John - slave

· Caroline - slave

· Thos L Webb

· Louis D DeSaussure

· Geo H Ingraham

· Benjamin H Read

· J G Hemming

· Benjamin C Wilson

· Francis S Parker

· Julius Izard Pringle

· Samuel Z Atkinson

· Mary - slave

The estate inventory of William Read, filed in 1845, also lists the names of slaves at Rice Hope Plantation:

Slaves at Rice Hope Plantation of William Read, Berkeley, SC, 1845

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