Abstract The Mary Stevenson Collection documents the people and places of the South Carolina counties of Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens—especially the Clemson-Pendleton area—through the research of Mary Stevenson, a Clemson University librarian and chair of the Research and Publication Committee of the Foundation for Historic Restoration in the Pendleton Area. The collection also documents the families who lived in or were associated with the two historic houses the Foundation operates, Ashtabula and...

Scope and Contents The records consist of 14 account books, ledgers received and paid out, and reveal a diversified and successful agricultural operation using one tenant and a number of sharecroppers, mainly on "Hamilton place." Cotton was the principal cash crop, but he and his tenants grew and sold hay, oats, corn, and garden-truck crops. His principal tenants/share croppers were W.A. Miller and the Belton, Benton and Brown families. Personal expenses for members of his family and cash advances to his...