The papers consist of three blacksmith account books/daybooks (1848-1850, 1851-1855 and 1858-1864), accounts and receipts. The account books/daybooks record blacksmithing work that Trapp did for various Fairfield County residents. In addition, the 1858-1864 account books contains copies of correspondence, prayers and poems written in 1879 on unused parts of the pages by Mrs. Lula Trapp of Pleasant Valley, Winnsboro, Fairfield County, SC. The accounts and receipts document purchases of cloth, food and other supplies for the period 1851-1866 by Major Nathan Cook, a planter in Fairfield County (born c.1774 in Richland County, SC) and his wife, Christiana (born c.1790, also in Richland County); some of these payments are deducted from the proceeds of cotton sales. One receipt, dated January 5, 1865, is for "Negro shoes". Eugene Trapp is noted as having paid on October 17, 1866 bill on another of the receipts.