The collection includes listings of purchasers and the items they purchased at the auction of Howell McLemore's effects in 1841; an account of the disposal of Howell McLemore's goods by the administrators of his estate; slave birth records (written after 1847); and a deed of gift from Howell's son Chesley B. to his own daughter by his first wife before he remarried in 1849. Some of these documents would have been recorded in Emanuel County official records.