CAPEHART FAMILY PAPERS, #1494, 1782-1983
Correspondence, volumes, financial items, and other material (1811-1899) of the Capehart family of Scotch Hall Plantation, Bertie
County, North Carolina, with some material concerning the Martin family of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. The collection includes slave records (1840-1864), a recipe book containing a list of the names and births of former
slaves who remained on the plantation after the war, and letters from Kate (Mary Carey
Capehart) to her father (Cullen Capehart) mentioning freed blacks who wished to remain with
their former owners (1866). Microfilm only.
