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251. CARTER-SMITH PAPERS

ca. 2,700 items, 1726-1870
Materials on the Carter, Coles, Smith, and Nicholas families. Primary interest centers on General Samuel Smith and his son, John Spear Smith of Baltimore, and his daughter Margaret who married Robert Hill Carter of Redlands, Albemarle County. A series of April 1870 letters from A. Drummond in Williamsburg to the Coles family in Albemarle discuss among other things the selling and buying of slaves.
(Acc. 1729)