433. LEESBURG FAMILY PAPERS
ca. 10,000 items, ca. 1650-1960
Business, legal, and personal papers of five interrelated Loudoun County families: the Fendall, Harrison, Miller, Murray, and Jones families. Included
are lists and descriptions, 1823-30, of slaves belonging to Miss McCall, whose estate was settled by Walter
Jones.
The diary of Sterling Murray, 1812-16, includes a fine description of a trip to Havana, Cuba, by the slaves on a sugar plantation.
Also mentioned are the slave trade in Havana and an incident in which an
African chief boarded a slave ship and removed all the slaves in retaliation
for the abduction of some of his warriors.
(Acc. 8557-a)
