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35. LEVEN POWELL PAPERS
93 items, 1774-1806
Personal, military, and political letters of this soldier and
politician from Middleburg. In the personal
letters are mentions of slaves including a June 9,
1797, letter from Leven to Burr Powell in Kentucky
explaining that Leven's slave John was put in jail "because he was making wild threats and
drinking too much." There is also a mention of Blacks in Lord Dunmore's army in 1776.
(Acc. 65 P87)
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