ELSIE H. BOOKER, COLLECTOR, PAPERS, #4580, 1712-1966
Correspondence, business and legal papers, scrapbooks, genealogical information, pictures,
and miscellaneous papers of the Markham, Leigh, Durham, Lloyd, and other families, chiefly of
North Carolina. The collection contains business and legal papers primarily of the Shephard,
Leigh, and Markham families of Orange and Durham Counties, North Carolina. Papers include a
will that calls for the sale of land and slaves (1819); a property
inventory listing slaves (1821); and documents relating to the
hiring of slaves (1832, 1839). Among the
Durham and Lloyd family correspondence is a letter of application for a position as a teacher
at an African-American public school in the Beth-Carr district, probably in Orange County,
North Carolina. (1900). In addition, the collection contains
post-Civil War letters of three African-American families: the Goodwins of South Carolina,
the Pickens of Connecticut, and the Mitchells of Durham, North Carolina.