233. BUCK FAMILY PAPERS
200 items, ca. 1830-60
Correspondence, personal, and business papers of this Winchester family. It is a very good archive of one
family's business and personal interests. There is much correspondence about
slavery, including October 6
and 27, 1848, letters from a slave hunter, Joseph Kinsel; a November
30, 1848, letter from a runaway slave to his mother requesting
that she ask "Master William" to take him back;
and a February 1, 1843, letter about a
family of slaves afflicted by a serious illness.
(Acc. 4932)
