Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts | ||
555. RORER FAMILY PAPERS
ca. 500 items, ca. 1770-1935,
microfilm (M-1385)
Business, legal, and personal papers of this family
of Pittsylvania
County. A diary entry for February 24, 1848, mentions that a slave
named Margaret murdered a white female baby of the family of John Jones and Angeline Rorer
Jones in Wentworth, North Carolina. In
a journal is a "Register of Blacks, 1835-1865" with birth dates and mothers'
names of family slaves.
(Acc. 7901)
Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts | ||