EDMONIA CABELL WILKINS PAPERS, #2364, 1782-1949
Personal and business correspondence, financial and legal papers, genealogical materials,
and other papers of several generations of the family of genealogist Wilkins of Greenville
and Brunswick Counties, Virginia, and Northampton County, North Carolina. Financial and legal
materials make up the bulk of the collection, and contain documents concerning property,
plantation affairs, and the purchase and upkeep of slaves. Also included are inventories of
slaves (1824-1841) and a letter from Elijah Wilkins, a slave, on the condition of the
Wilkins' plantation (1851). Microfilm available.
