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14. BYERS FAMILY PAPERS
884 items, 1820-1906
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
family of Augusta County. Included are materials
of 1830-39 on the hiring of
slaves. A January 1, 1839, letter from Briscoe G. Baldwin concerns the hiring of a slave
of his to Mr. Shumate as a blacksmith.
(Acc.
65 B99)
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