Isaac Hayne Journal: Register, ca. 1764-1781

The Isaac Hayne Journal (1764-1781) is a bound volume compiled by planter, Revolutionary War colonel, and South Carolina legislator Isaac Hayne (1745-1781).  Serving with Patriot forces in the Colleton County regiment, Hayne was captured by the British during the Siege of Charleston in 1780.  Initially given parole and allowed to return to his home, Hayne was later asked to take up arms for the British and refused to do so, seeing it as a violation of his parole agreement.  He was executed by the British in 1781 for treason. The owner of Hayne Hall Plantation in Jacksonboro, Colleton County, Hayne lived there with his wife Elizabeth Hutson and their seven children, who all came down with severe smallpox.  At least one family member succumbed to the illness. His bound journal contains records of enslaved people’s names, births, deaths, marriages, and memorandums with notations regarding the sale of enslaved people and attempts to runaway or leave the plantation. The journal also contains information on horse breeding.