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274. COMPTON FAMILY PAPERS

24 items, 1825-47
Letters of this Culpeper County family chiefly written to Thomas A. Compton in Mississippi. Included are an 1826 letter in which the writer indicated a willingness to part with some of his slaves in exchange for land; an 1846 estate list, including slaves; and an 1847 request to see that the writer's slaves got across a river by ferry safely.
(Acc. 38-116)