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FRANCIS ASBURY DICKINS PAPERS, #218, 1729-1934
Chiefly correspondence between the family of Dickins, planter of Ossian Hall in Fairfax County, Virginia, agent for the U.S. War and Treasury Departments, and lawyer of Washington, DC, and the family of his wife, Margaret Harvey Randolph. Correspondence includes advice on the handling of slaves (1845); the purchase of two elderly slaves (1848); and a mention of post-Civil War servants in Virginia (1868).
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