• Fairfield Plantation

Emma Clara Pringle Alston Recipe Book

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[Library Title: Alston family papers, 1846-1902]
Manuscript Location
South Carolina Historical Society, Reading Room, College of Charleston, Addlestone Library
Holding Library Call No.
Manuscript ; 1002.00
Manuscript Cookbooks Survey Database ID#
1565
Place of Origin
United States ➔ South Carolina ➔ McClellanville
Date of Composition
ca. 1851-1871
Description
The library's Alston family papers includes a cookbook compiled by Emma Clara Pringle Alston  (1803-1889) between 1851 and 1871. She married Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Alston (1796-1881) in 1824 and lived with him at Fairfield Plantation, near McClellanville, South Carolina. The couple had four children.