Land, Credit & Foreclosure Risk: Black Mingo Township (1879–1930)

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Black Mingo Township, Williamsburg County, S.C.

1879–1930

Land, Credit & Foreclosure Risk

Agricultural Production, Mortgage & Merchant Debt Records

Collection Statement

This archival series contains agricultural settlement statements, merchant credit accounts, crop-lien records, mortgage listings, and bank-documented obligations connected to residents of Black Mingo Township between 1879 and the early twentieth century.

The records reflect the operational mechanics of the rural credit system, including cotton settlement sheets, seed advances, wage payments, land-backed mortgages, and financial instruments processed through institutions such as People’s Bank of Georgetown, S.C.

Together, these materials document how agricultural production, merchant credit, and mortgage enforcement structured land retention and land loss within the township. The archive preserves named individuals participating in a credit economy that increasingly tied crop production to collateralized debt.

“This series provides primary-source evidence of how economic pressure, market volatility, and financial enforcement shaped patterns of land transfer in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Williamsburg County.”

— Digital Ledger: Debt & Mortgage Records —

Agricultural Debt Record — Page 1

Document Image Pending Preservation

The first page of this series is currently being processed for digital display.

Archival Provenance & Citation: Records in this collection are sourced from the Rhem Family Papers (#443), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.

Curated and interpreted by Our Mahogany Heritage Institute.

Archival Citation

Our Mahogany Heritage Institute. “Land, Credit, and Foreclosure Risk: Black Mingo Township (1879–1930).” [Accessed March 2026]. https://ourmahoganyheritage.com/land-credit-foreclosure-black-mingo/

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