University of Virginia Library

27. JERDONE FAMILY PAPERS

2,630 items, 1720-1918
Business, legal, and personal correspondence and accounts of this family of York, Charles City, and Louisa counties. Included is material on slavery, such as a list of slaves on the Forge estate in 1823. Letters of 1800 refer to the deaths of slave children, and a November 12, 1800, letter from George Breckenridge to Francis Jerdone mentions a planned slave insurrection in Virginia.
(Acc. 39.1 J47)