333. GARRETT FAMILY PAPERS
ca. 300 items, ca. 1800-1935
Correspondence, personal, and business papers of this family of York County. Many scattered references to slavery
include a July 2, 1843, letter to William Nelson giving permission for a slave, Jim, to be baptized; a
December 20, 1851, letter from G. R.
Garrett to his brother who had reported trouble at a Richmond college because blacks were allowed to be
married there; an April 15, 1852, letter
telling of a Captain Ravley who stabbed several
blacks and killed at least one black person and, according to an October 11, 1852, letter, was found not
guilty; and an October 4, 1852, letter
mentioning that Fanny had been sold for behaving
badly.
(Acc. 9974, -a)
