501. WILSON CARY NICHOLAS PAPERS
ca. 1,150 items, ca. 1725-1830
Mostly personal correspondence of the Randolph family of Edgehill and of
Nicholas. The documents concerning slavery include a June 1802-June 1803 list of the
sale of slaves; a December 21, 1808, letter
of Peggy Nicholas to Wilson
Cary Nicholas about a massacre plotted by slaves; and several
undated items: a note by Nicholas about slaves
and land, a note on the sale of Edmund Randolph's
slaves, and a petition for educating slaves before freeing them.
(Acc.
5533)
