519. PETER FAMILY PAPERS
ca. 2,000 items, ca. 1700-1900
Business, legal, and personal papers of this family of Georgetown,
D.C., and of Frederick and
Montgomery counties, Maryland. The frequent references to slavery
include a series of letters in 1836-45 mentioning the buying and selling of slaves in Georgetown; an 1850 letter
from John Denning to L. W.
Candler discussing the current market in slaves; and an undated
letter from John Candler to George Peter about seventy-five runaway slaves from Charles County heading through Rockville County to Pennsylvania.
(Acc. 7605-a)
