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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)