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ROBERT TREAT PAINE PAPERS, #1110, 1830-1900

Family, political, and military correspondence of Paine, an Edenton, North Carolina, lawyer, state legislator, Mexican War officer, and U.S. Representative. Included are scattered slave bills of sale (1842, 1854, 1857-1858); papers concerning a gift to Sarah Paine of an adult slave and slave children (1853); and an inquiry from a former Paine slave about his father (1871).