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Description
John Stoney wrote from Hilton Head to John Kean, addressed to New York. He wrote to give Kean an update on his plantation at Hilton Head. He said the crops were coming up well and specifically mentioned corn and indigo. He gave a bushel of Indigo seeds to Mr. Wiggs as requested. He also mentioned briefly a job tasked to thee enslaved people and that they were all doing well.
Author/Creator
John Stoney
Recipient
John Kean (1755-1795)
Creation Date
5-22-1788
Document Type
Manuscript
Location
Hilton Head, SC
Inventory Location
Bay 1, Column 1, LHC Series 2
Recommended Citation
Stoney, John. John Stoney to John Kean, May 22, 1788. Manuscript. From Special Collections Research Library and Archives, Kean University, Liberty Hall Collection 1780s. https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/lhc_1780s/208
Rights
This collection is open to the public for research use. Copyright remains with Kean University. Credit this material. Personal photographs may be made for research purposes. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to Lynette Zimmerman, Executive Director at the Liberty Hall Academic Center & Exhibition Hall at lzimmerm@kean.edu.
Publishing Repository
Special Collections Research Library and Archives, Kean University

Collection
The Liberty Hall Collection consists of the correspondence, financial records, legal documents, and other manuscript material of the Livingston and Kean families, dated from 1739-1847. The bulk of the collection is related to Susan Livingston Kean Niemcewicz (1759-1833). The Livingston and Kean families frequently corresponded and held accounts with other wealthy, prominent, colonial and early American families in New Jersey, especially Elizabethtown, Philadelphia, New York City, upstate New York, England, France, and Poland. A small portion of the collection includes correspondence with early Virginia families, unrelated to the Livingston and Kean families. The collection includes second hand accounts of enslaved people who were owned by the Kean and other families, offering a glimpse into their forced work and places of residence.