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BURTON AND YOUNG FAMILY PAPERS, #111, 1807-1911

Family correspondence among members of four generations of the Burton and Young families of Granville, Lincoln, Cabarrus, and Mecklenburg Counties, North Carolina. Included are papers sent to Sarah Virginia Burton Young by the managers of her plantation discussing the conduct of workers, especially rioting by freedmen, and the unsettled nature of local politics as related to freedmen's votes (1866-1896).