SKINNER FAMILY PAPERS, #669, 1705-1900
Personal correspondence and papers, including financial and legal records, and plantation
journals of four generations of the Skinner family, chiefly of North Carolina. Correspondence
documents management of the family's plantations in Edenton, Bertie, Perquimans, and Chowan
Counties, North Carolina, discusses problems with slaves and slave management (1823, 1861, 1863) and the family's relationship with
their slaves (1849). Also included are wills that mention the purchase of slaves (1816); slave lists that record the names, ages, skills, dates of birth,
deaths, sales, and sometimes escapes, of family slaves (1843-1860); and a list of slave
"women having children and annual increase."