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482. MINOR FAMILY PAPERS

ca. 200 items, 1838-1944
Business and personal papers of Launcelot Minor and his family of Pedlar Mills, Amherst County. An 1838-87 farm ledger has information on slaves, especially birth dates, and on sharecropping by freedmen after the war. Bible records note slave births and deaths, and there is a daguerreotype of a female slave.
(Acc. 6055)