DE ROSSET FAMILY PAPERS, #214, 1671-1940.
Correspondence, legal and financial papers, record books and diaries of the De Rosset
family of Wilmington and Hillsborough, North Carolina, and Columbia, South Carolina.
Correspondence includes letters, discussing the hiring out of slaves written to the De
Rossets by their slaves in Wilmington, North Carolina (1861-1864) and activities of freed slaves (1865-1871). Financial materials include slave bills of sale; a deed of
emancipation for a Charleston, South Carolina slave (1817); and a
slave record listing births and deaths of De Rosset family slaves (1790-1854). The collection also includes four prints of charcoal
drawings of African Americans by H. P. Kimball.