JONES AND PATTERSON FAMILY PAPERS, #578, 1777-1933
Personal, business, and political papers of four generations of the Jones and Patterson
families, merchants, manufacturers, and public officials of North Carolina. Included are
slave bills of sale (1808, 1822-1823); a ledger documenting accounts with slaves (1817-1818);
two books recording the allowances of slaves and servants (1858-1859, 1860-1866); and
accounts of Rufus Lenoir Patterson's textile mill in Salem, North Carolina, which contain
records of post-Civil War black labor.
