510. SAMUEL PANNILL PAPERS
765 items, 1847-1938
Letters, indentures, accounts, receipts, promissory notes, and tax
receipts of this Pittsylvania County plantation
owner. Many concern tobacco, grist mill accounts, railroad shipments, and
the hiring of laborers. Of interest are 1858 and
1862 accounts for medical treatment of slaves,
receipts for slaves impressed to work on Confederate fortifications, an
1867 list of wages paid to sharecroppers, and
a Freedman's Bureau apprenticeship indenture.
(Acc. 10721)