ALEXANDER ELLIOT PAPERS, #4596, 1769-1909
Primarily correspondence of Elliot, lumberman of Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North
Carolina, who also served as a colonel in the militia and was a member of the North Carolina
House of Commons, 1824-1825, and the North
Carolina Senate, 1826. Contained in the collection are bills and
receipts documenting the purchase and sale of slaves. Correspondence covers various topics
including the possibility of slave insurrections in Mississippi and North Carolina
(1840s).