Estate Inventory of Edward M Barnwell, Free African American, Charleston, SC, 1852

"The Est of Edward M Barnwell a free person of colour decd consists only of a few articles of wearing apparel & c valued at about $30 A suit at Law: his interest therein supposed to be worth about $200 and some Jewelry valued at $57 H O'Hear, Thos B Swift, John W Palmer Appraisers Filed 17 Feby 1852"