624. WEBB-PRENTIS PAPERS
ca. 14,000 items, ca. 1770-1920
Correspondence, notebooks, journals, and manuscripts of these and
allied families of the Tidewater area of Virginia.
Material on blacks is generally sparse, but there are intermittent slave
sales and wills, such as a valuation and division of slaves belonging to the
estate of
Archibald Allen, December 27, 1860, and a 1771 will of John Blair
distributing his slaves. There is also a legal memorandum on petit larceny
cases for slaves, and a public record lists names and ages of Virginia slaves belonging to the Prentis family.
(Acc. 4136, etc.)
