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MCELWEE FAMILY PAPERS, #2692, 1800-1893

Financial and legal papers, correspondence, clippings, and account books of the McElwee family of Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina, and the Alexander family of Iredell County, Hardiman County, Tennessee, and Lowndes County, Alabama. Correspondence contains discussion of slaves (1861). An account book details the sale and hire of slaves (1850-1852).