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366. HAWFIELD PLANTATION ACCOUNT BOOKS
ca. 120 items, ca. 1840-1930
The account books, ledgers, and journals of this Orange County plantation. Noted is a photograph of black and
white miners at Mineral Springs, a sulphur mine on
the plantation.
The account books of the 1840s and 1850s have infrequent references to
payment of slaves. There is also a plantation record book kept by the
overseer.
(Acc. 2198)
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