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.
(Acc. 247)
