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| Scott Number | 1 |
|---|---|
| Date | February 11, 1850 |
| From City | Charleston |
| From State | SC |
| To City | Monks Corner |
| To State | SC |
| Addressee | Dr. Rhett J. Motte |
| Cert Author | PF |
| Cert # | 569203 |
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| Quantity 1 | 1 |
| Quantity 2 | 0 |
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Lot 412 #1 5c Red Brown, complete to full margins, tied to 1850 folded letter to Monks Corner, S.C. by red "Paid" handstamps, "Charleston S.C. 5 Feb 11" red cds, crease through adhesive Est. 200-250
Richard C. Frajola, Inc. sale 38 realized 250
Alexander listed as 2/11/50
Schuyler J. Rumsey, Inc sale 59 lot 4130 realized 210
PF 569203 genuine use
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Letter to Dr. Jacob Rhett Monte (1811-1868) of Monck’s Corner, South Carolina.
Jacob Rhett Motte was a U.S. Army surgeon during the Seminole Wars of the early nineteenth-century. He later worked in private practice in Charleston, South Carolina.
In 1836, 24-year-old Jacob Rhett Motte, a Harvard-educated southern gentleman with a literary flair, departed his hometown of Charleston to serve as an Army surgeon in wars against the Creek and Seminole Indians. He found himself transported from aristocratic social circles into a wild frontier.
Motte recorded his experiences in a lively journal, presented in full in Journey into Wilderness. In his journal, Motte relates observations of Indian warfare from southern Georgia and eastern Alabama to Key Largo in Florida. He reports his impressions of pioneer settlements, military fortifications, towns, roads, frontier life and society, and geography. His journal also offers glimpses of the economic, political, and religious trends of the time. A fascinating story and travelogue, it is a rare firsthand account of life on the Georgia-Alabama-Florida frontier.
1845 – Dr. Jacob Rhett Motte purchased Exeter Plantation – Moncks Corner – Berkeley County, South Carolina
1868 – Dr. Motte died of Typhoid Fever at Exeter Plantation Number of slaves – 12 in 1848; 51 in 1859; 57 in 1865
Richard C. Frajola, Inc. sale 38 realized 250
Alexander listed as 2/11/50
Schuyler J. Rumsey, Inc sale 59 lot 4130 realized 210
PF 569203 genuine use
(image)
Letter to Dr. Jacob Rhett Monte (1811-1868) of Monck’s Corner, South Carolina.
Jacob Rhett Motte was a U.S. Army surgeon during the Seminole Wars of the early nineteenth-century. He later worked in private practice in Charleston, South Carolina.
In 1836, 24-year-old Jacob Rhett Motte, a Harvard-educated southern gentleman with a literary flair, departed his hometown of Charleston to serve as an Army surgeon in wars against the Creek and Seminole Indians. He found himself transported from aristocratic social circles into a wild frontier.
Motte recorded his experiences in a lively journal, presented in full in Journey into Wilderness. In his journal, Motte relates observations of Indian warfare from southern Georgia and eastern Alabama to Key Largo in Florida. He reports his impressions of pioneer settlements, military fortifications, towns, roads, frontier life and society, and geography. His journal also offers glimpses of the economic, political, and religious trends of the time. A fascinating story and travelogue, it is a rare firsthand account of life on the Georgia-Alabama-Florida frontier.
1845 – Dr. Jacob Rhett Motte purchased Exeter Plantation – Moncks Corner – Berkeley County, South Carolina
1868 – Dr. Motte died of Typhoid Fever at Exeter Plantation Number of slaves – 12 in 1848; 51 in 1859; 57 in 1865
