SHANKS FAMILY PAPERS, #2090, 1801-1923
Chiefly business papers, with scattered family correspondence and miscellaneous items, of
the related families of tobacco planters William Shanks and William A. Moody of Granville
County, North Carolina, and Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Business papers relate to the
administration of estates and to plantation finances, and correspondence touches on slavery
and overseer duties in North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Virginia. Included are slave
bills of sale and slave lists (1801-1865).