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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)
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