252. ROBERT "KING" CARTER PAPERS
6 items,1722-43, microfilm
(M-570)
The 1722-27
diary, four letterbooks, and the corn book of this
Corotoman, Lancaster County, planter. Extremely
good material on slavery in early eighteenth-century Virginia is found throughout. The diary contains many notations
in July and August
1727 on the buying and selling of slaves at auction and a mention of
boarding a "Negro Ship." The corn book has entries on the amounts of corn
paid to slaves. The letterbooks contain slavery information such as an October 10, 1727, letter from Robert Carter to his overseer, Robert Jones, instructing him to cut off the toes of a runaway
slave. Also included on the microfilm are the Robert
Carter letterbooks at the Virginia Historical Society.
(Acc.
3807)
