Juliet Georgiana Elliott Account Book

Juliet Georgiana Elliott Account Book

1844 - 1874

City of Charleston and Colleton County woman's systematic accounts of annual expenditures, including charities and presents. Also includes items purchased for enslaved peoples. Annual income statements list sources of receipts, including hiring out of enslaved peoples. Juliet was born in 1805 to parents Barnard Elliott, III and Juliet Georgiana Gibbes Elliott. Her “Daily Book” consists of expenses such as piano tuning, presents for loved ones, mourning clothes for when her mother died, and a trip to Paris. Income is indicated for the sale of enslaved peoples’ labor, dividends on investments, and the sale of her pearls in New York. Juliet also included a small section detailing her travel to Europe, during the years 1867 to 1871, indicating “absent nearly 4 years, spent 10,000 Francs.” The account book concludes with the sentence “1863 War, lost all negroes on plantation $467.35.” It is unclear when the Library Society acquired this item, though the Library’s connections with the Elliott family are deep: among the early Elliott family who were members, Juliet’s mother’s name can be found in our list of members in 1835 (as Mrs. J. Elliott, widow to Barnard Elliott, III) and numerous times within our Circulation Book starting in 1811. Additionally, we have the elder Juliet’s sheet music and Revolutionary War-era military records that belonged to her g.grandfather, Captain Barnard Elliott.

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Ms. 51, Elliott and Gibbes Family Manuscripts, 1779-1874

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Conservation funded by Jim Treyz for Juliet Elliott's Daily Account Book (series 2), in 2025. Details on conservation are available in the item notes. See staff for details.