221. BREMO RECESS PAPERS
ca. 3,500 items, ca. 1690-1950
Business and personal papers of the Cocke
and Cabell families of Bremo
Recess in Fluvanna County. The papers
contain a number of references to blacks and letters of former slaves who
had emigrated to Liberia, e.g., Matilda Skipwith
to Miss S. F. Cocke, October 1844, and
Matilda Lomax to Miss Sarah
Cox, 1853. Included are an 1865 list of slaves at Recess; an 1856 letter from the president of the American Colonization
Society, J. H. Latrobe; and an 1823 letter (9513-h) from Ann B.
Cocke to Louisiana Cocke about a slave
wedding.
(Acc. 9513, etc.)