THOMAS PARKS COLLECTION OF PARKS AND MCELBRATH FAMILY PAPERS, #4464, 1771-1981
Correspondence, financial and legal papers, photographs, and other items relating to
ancestors and relatives of Thomas Parks. Account books contain lists of slave births
(1836-1915). The McElbrath papers include details of the use of slaves in California gold
mines (1851-2); actions taken to thwart a slave insurrection (1857); and a deed of gift transferring ownership of a family slave to a physician,
possibly in payment for health services (1827). Microfilm
available.
