204. BELL FAMILY PAPERS
ca. 200 items, ca. 1790-1880,
microfilm (M-1313)
Business and legal papers of this Augusta County family. Slave documents include
depositions attesting to the sale of slaves from John
Bell's estate and a public sale notice of a superannuated female
slave to be cared for by the lowest bidder. In a
November 21, 1831, letter describing a wedding, the writer
reported that she had heard that at the celebration the groom "left a pack
of white people to wait on a pack of Negroes."
(Acc. 6688)
