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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)