BRITTON AND MOORE FAMILY PAPERS, #4136, 1782-1890
Legal papers, financial records, and family correspondence, chiefly 1850-1889, of the Blodgett, Britton, and Moore families of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Northampton County, North Carolina; and New Orleans, Louisiana.
Correspondence includes two letters to Ellen (Britton) Moore from Howard Moore, the son of a
former Moore slave, concerning his progress in a Raleigh, North Carolina, school. Financial
papers contain records of the hiring of slaves (1854-1855) and the purchase of a slave (1850).
