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420. KENNON PAPERS

ca. 950 items, 1808-1903
Personal and business papers of William Henry Kennon and his son, William Upshur Kennon, of Norwood, Powhatan County. A two-volume journal, 1808-83, of Beverly Randolph's Powhatan County plantation contains slave records. The voluminous general correspondence probably contains reference to slaves and slavery.
(Acc. 38-95)