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53. ROBERT ANDERSON PAPERS

4,763 items, 1787-1858
Family, business, and personal correspondence and accounts of this merchant, insurance agent, and politician of Williamsburg and Yorktown. Among the business papers are arrest warrants for slaves. There is considerable correspondence concerning slavery, such as a January 11, 1846, letter from Anthony Baber to Robert Anderson discussing an incident in which the slave Salley was badly burned.
(Acc. Ms 72.2)