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437. LEWIS, ANDERSON, AND MARKS FAMILY PAPERS
ca. 800 items, ca. 1770-1900
Personal, business, and legal correspondence of these Albemarle County residents. Included are an April 6, 1778, letter from an elderly slave to
Lucy Marks and numerous documents and letters
concerning slavery, as well as a series of letters in 1827-28 from Sidney
Reese, a member of Congress, to Reuben
Lewis describing the payment of a debt to Reese in the form of slaves.
(Acc. 9041)
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