JOHN MCKEE SHARPE PAPERS, #3592, 1793-1954
Papers of Sharpe of Statesville, North Carolina, consisting of his correspondence on family
and local history and papers of his Sharpe and McKee ancestors of Iredell County, North
Carolina. Papers belonging to Silas Alexander Sharpe, a colonel of the North Carolina Home
Guard for Iredell and Alexander Counties, concern conscription, apprehension of deserters,
and slaves detained to work at Ft. Fisher. Also includes a Maryland bond to a North Carolina
resident demanding the delivery of a slave (1793); letters concerning the purchase of slaves
(1846, 1849); letters describing race relations in Laurens
District, South Carolina, during Reconstruction (1871); and early 1850s letters concerning
the death of John Stevenson and the manumission of his slaves, who emigrated to Liberia.