MARY HUNTER KENNEDY PAPERS, #3242, 1759-1955
Personal correspondence and papers of Mary Hunter Kennedy and four generations of her
ancestors of Iredell County, North Carolina. Letters discuss domestic matters and plantation
management, such as buying and supervising slaves (1824-1834); the prices of slaves
(1835-1860); and problems with former slaves and Reconstruction policies (1866-1879). The
collection also contains contracts for the sale of slaves (1812) and for the hire of slaves
(1835-1860) and freedmen (1866-1870).
