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Police Book 1855-1856
LibGuide on this item available.This volume is the briefest police book in this collection, and covers the period from Thursday, December 27, 1855 to Sunday, June 1, 1856. The last page of records contains the note, "The Privates of the Guard are…
Poll Tax Lower Ward, 1859
LibGuide on this item available.This volume covers taxes paid in 1859 in the "lower wards," which consisted of the peninsula south of Calhoun Street. This period starts just over two years after the deadly 1885 hurricane, an a little over one year…
City Taxes 1863 M-Z
LibGuide on this item available.This ledger includes tax return information for the year 1863, the middle of the Civil War. It covers taxpayers whose last names begin with the letters M-Z. The state of South Carolina came under martial law in 1862,…
Tax Book Free Persons of Color 1863
LibGuide on this item available.This ledger includes tax return information paid by free people of color for the year 1863, the middle of the Civil War. The state of South Carolina came under martial law in 1862, and would remain so until the end of…
City Taxes 1864 A-L
LibGuide on this item available.This ledger includes tax return information for the year 1864, toward the end of the Civil War. It covers taxpayers whose last names begin with the letters A-L. The state of South Carolina came under martial law in…
City Taxes 1864
LibGuide on this item available.This ledger includes tax return information for the year 1864, toward the end of the Civil War. It covers taxpayers whose last names begin with the letters M-Z. The state of South Carolina came under martial law in…
City Taxes 1865
LibGuide on this item available.This ledger includes tax return information for the year 1865, the last year of the Civil War, which ended in April. The state of South Carolina came under martial law in 1862, and would remain so until the end of…
Monthly Returns from November 1865 to February 1866
LibGuide on this item available.This ledger includes monthly tax return information from November 1865 to February 1866, just after the end of the Civil War. The state of South Carolina came under martial law in 1862, and would remain so until the…
City Taxes 1865-1868
LibGuide on this item available.This ledger includes tax return information for the years 1865 through 1868, immediately following the end of the Civil War. The state of South Carolina came under martial law in 1862, and would remain so until the end…
1867 City Taxes
LibGuide on this item available.This ledger includes tax return information for the year 1867. The state of South Carolina came under martial law in 1862, and would remain so until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. For each taxpayer listed it gives…