GILLEPSIE AND WRIGHT FAMILY PAPERS, #275, 1735-1877
Chiefly legal and financial papers of the Gillepsie and Wright families, owners of
thousands of acres of land and significant numbers of slaves in the lower Cape Fear region of
North Carolina, especially in Duplin County. The collection contains slave bills of sale and
other slave papers (1735-1861); tax-related
slave documents (1801-1845); papers relating to
a court case involving two slaves accused of stealing a pig (1825);
and a note giving the average value of slaves in Cumberland and Sampson counties, North
Carolina (1861). Other items include two undated acrostics by black
poet George Moses Horton.
