Joseph Purcell & John Diamond's Rare Early Manuscript South Carolina, Outside Charleston

PURCELL, Joseph (1750-1806) AND DIAMOND, John (fl. 1790-1810).
Rare Early Manuscript South Carolina Survey [Outside Charleston].
Pen and ink on paper.
Signed and dated.
c. 1789
15 5/8" x 13 1/8" sheet, 22 5/8" x 20 1/4" framed.

The survey reads:

State of South Carolina. The above plat represents the form & marks, Buttings and Boundings of a Tract of Land situated on the west side of Wassamassaw Swamp in the District of Charleston, contained in the whole two thousand and fourteen acres by this survey, being part of a thousand acres formerly Granted to John Ashby, & by him conveyed to Abraham Dupont (deceased) March 2nd 1725, which now consists of seventy one acres of swamp, sixty one acres of oak and Hickory land; and eighty two acres of prime land belonging to James Heyward Esquire. Resurveyed the 23rd day April 1789 by John Diamond

The survey of the above Tract of Land was taken by Mr. Diamond at the Instance of Joseph Purcell, Surveyor

The hand-drawn survey drawing in pencil and blue and black inks with “nota bene”
Swamp fit for the culture of rice...........71 acres
high Land fit for Indigo & provision......61 acres
timber Land..........................................82 acres

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Amount..............214 acres

The verso inscribed: James Heyward Esqr, 24 Acres on Wassamassaw Swamp, surveyed by John Diamond, C.D. (Charleston District) St. James Goose Creek

And later ink stamp PARKER PAPERS

Purcell, an Irish American surveyer working in South Carolina in the eighteenth century. After emigrating tothe United Staes in 1765 where he apprenticed under William De Brahm. Under De Brahm he created manuscrip maps of Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Purcell went on to work with the southern district of the British Inian Department. Purcell drafted a manuscript map showing the southeastern American indian lands, which is often referred to as the Stuart Purcell map. Purcell contributed a map for Jedediah Morse’s publication American Universal Geography, though his main focus appeared to be legal surveys.