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34. POWELL FAMILY PAPERS

684 items, 1785-ca. 1900
Personal letters of this family of Loudoun County, Winchester, Alexandria, and Henry, Illinois. There is no significant material on Afro-Americans except for a January 3, 1849, letter mentioning the hiring of a slave and a March 12, 1866, letter from Richmond mentioning the difficulty of living with freedmen.
(Acc. 65 P875)