390. HUBARD FAMILY PAPERS
ca. 12,000 items, ca. 1750-1950
Correspondence, legal, and business documents of Robert T. Hubard, Sr., and his descendants of Rosny and Chellowe in
Buckingham County. This large family
collection has references to slavery including a list of Hubard's slaves and their value at emancipation; a list of Virginia counties having fewer than 500 taxable
slaves; a table of the population, both slave and white, of Virginia by decades from 1790 to 1870; and a
December 22, 1854, letter from Charles
Jones to Robert Hubard written for a
slave, Walker, who wanted Hubard to buy his wife
who was going to be sold.
(Acc. 8039)
