A.L.S. from J.F. Thomas of Charlotte, North Carolina to Thomas W. Holloway, Secretary of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society of South Carolina, Anderson, South Carolina, concerning Thomas' rustproof seed wheat.
The Pendleton Farmers' Society was organized on June 12, 1815, as the "Farmers Society of Pendleton District"; its first president was Thomas Pinckney, Jr. The Pendleton Farmers' Society's original building, the Pendleton Farmers' Hall located on the square in Pendleton, South Carolina, is considered to be the oldest farmers' hall in the United States.