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383. JOHN HOOK AND BOWKER PRESTON PAPERS

146 items, 1787-1882
Personal correspondence, business correspondence, and ledgers of Hook and his son-in-law, Bowker Preston, of Franklin and Bedford counties. Included are a one-volume ledger, 1851-69, with slave birth records, etc.; a promissory note on a hired-out slave in 1787; and an 1806 warrant for the arrest of a man suspected of harboring a fugitive slave. A September 9, 1834, letter describes the death of a young male slave from cholera; an October 8, 1834, letter describes the sickness of a slave with a bowel complaint; and a December 23, 1835, letter mentions the possibility of hiring out slaves.
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