LEWIS THOMPSON PAPERS, #716, 1723-1894
Papers of Thompson, a North Carolina political leader and owner of plantations near
Woodville (also called Hotel), Bertie County, North Carolina, and at Bayou Boeuf, near
Alexandria, Louisiana. The collection consists chiefly of correspondence, accounts, bills,
receipts, and sharecropping documents relating to the production and sale of wheat and cotton
in Bertie County in North Carolina and sugar in Rapides Parish, Louisiana. Included are slave
lists (1792, 1830, 1850); records of slave purchases and sales (1812, 1820, 1859, 1860); a letter written on behalf of a slave in Orange County, North
Carolina, to a slave who had apparently been purchased by Lewis Thompson (1860); several sharecropping agreements between freedmen and Thomas W. Thompson
(1865); a letter from William Thompson about taking some of his
black workers to register to vote (1867); and a record book
registering accounts with black sharecroppers. Microfilm available.
