CALVIN JONES PAPERS, #921, 1785-1929
Correspondence, financial and legal papers, personal documents and miscellaneous items of
the family of Calvin Jones, physician, officer in the North Carolina militia, editor of the
Raleigh Star, and owner of a plantation near Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tennessee. Letters
discuss runaway slaves (1805, 1844, 1850); a rumored slave insurrection (1830); and freedmen
in Georgia and Tenn. (1867). Other documents include receipts for
the sale of slaves (1847-1850) and newspaper clippings containing advertisements for slave
sales and runaways (1819).
