191. BAKER FAMILY PAPERS
ca. 250 items, 1781-1893, 1917-21
The collection contains correspondence, business and legal papers, and
surveys, and genealogical material of the Baker,
Mills, Quarles,
Swift families of Gordonsville. Correspondence is chiefly that of Martin Baker, Sr., and Martin
Baker, Jr. Of interest are letters discussing slaves and
freedmen, particularly illness and deaths of family slaves and black office
seekers during Reconstruction. Business and legal papers of Martin Baker, Jr., include an 1818-33 account book with the Farmers
Bank of Virginia, an 1835will, a slave sale document, and papers about the estates of
Martin Baker, Sr. and Jr.
(Acc. 10676)
