My cousin, Jack Lynes, recently contributed to a genealogy story for International African American Museum. Jack had posted a scanned copy of the Guyton Family Bible from Oakley Plantation onto The Foxbank Project website (http://www.thefoxbankproject.org) and notified IAAM about an unusual entry in the bible....a record of purchase of several slaves in the late 1850s and 1860s. There are of course records of sales and purchases of slaves, but it is very unusual to notate it in the family bible.
You can read more details in the article, but the notation in the bible actually gave IAAM a piece of a puzzle for 3 of the 235 individuals sold from Pimlico Plantation in 1860. There was no record of where they were sold or what became of them until this bible entry. It goes to show you should "never give up on your search, because sometimes the pieces come together from many different sources." Thank you Jack for the contribution, and I hope it encourages more people to scan and share historical family documents. https://cfh.iaamuseum.org/african-american-genealogy-when-the-pieces-come-together-guyton-family-bible-oakley-plantation-berkeley-sc/
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