JAMES GWYN PAPERS, #298, 1653-1946
Personal correspondence, financial and legal items, diaries and accounts, and other papers
of the family of Gwyn and his wife, Mary Ann Lenoir Gwyn, of Green Hill Plantation, Wilkes
County, North Carolina. Included are slave bills of sale (1844-1846); a memorandum of
agreement between James Gwyn and several young free blacks (1866);
and letters describing Reconstruction politics in North Carolina and Louisiana (1868-1877),
and race relations in Tennessee and North Carolina (1898).
