821. TOMPKINS FAMILY PAPERS
2,930 items, 1792-1869
Personal, legal, business, and plantation correspondence and accounts
of this family of Poplar Grove, Mathews County.
Included are lists of slaves and correspondence concerning individual
slaves. A 1864-65 diary of
Christopher Tompkins concerning operations at
the Dover Coal Mine, Goochland County, contains
lists of slaves, and there are 1863-64 letters written to Tompkins
from Jack Foster, a slave with the 36th Virginia
Infantry Regiment, Confederate States Army.
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