University of Virginia Library

557. SABINE HALL PAPERS

ca. 500 items, 1659-1780
Business, legal, and personal papers of Landon Carter of Sabine Hall, Richmond County. Two of the personal letters mention slaves: a January 1, 1764, letter from Landon Carter, Jr., to Landon Carter mentioning a runaway slave and a 1770 letter from Charles Carter to Landon Carter complaining of runaways. A published guide is available: Walter Ray Wineman, The Landon Carter Papers in the University of Virginia Library (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1962).
(Acc. 1959)