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BURGWYN FAMILY PAPERS, #1687, 1787-1987

Miscellaneous papers of the Burgwyn family of Northampton County, North Carolina, largely of William Hyslop Sumner Burgwyn. Volumes include plantation accounts, a personal diary, deeds and family letters. Financial and legal materials contain receipts of slave sales and slave lists (1830-1861), and correspondence of Henry King Brown discusses the handling of slaves (1843). Microfilm available.