RUFUS REID PAPERS, #2712, 1772-1911
Business and legal papers, family papers, account books, and other items relating to the
family of Rufus Reid, the second largest slaveholder in Iredell County, North Carolina, and
the related Davidson, Guy, Morrison, Smith, and Torrance families, chiefly of Rowan and
Iredell Counties, North Carolina. The collection contains receipts for purchases of slaves
(1852-1861); papers relating to the capture of a runaway slave (1822); the renting of slaves and their treatment (1824, 1850-1851, 1855- 1861); and a
court case concerning a slave sale (1853). Account books record
work done by slaves for the Mississippi Central Railroad (1859-1860) and blankets and
clothing given to slaves (1845-1852, 1855-1860).