Black family papers, 1797-1926 [manuscript].

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Black family. Black family papers, 1797-1926 [manuscript].

Black family papers, 1797-1926 [manuscript].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24201991

Family correspondence and business papers, scattered in time, location, and subject matter, genealogical material, and other items. Earlier papers are business and family letters of David Black, merchant ship captain of Alexandria, Va., including five letters, 1833-1848, from relatives in Scotland, who were linen weavers, discussing labor conditions and politics. The greater number of papers deal with the financial affairs of Robert Martin of Erwinton, S.C., and his Erwin relatives in the 1840s and after the Civil War. There also are business letters of U. M. Robert of Albany, Ga.

About 120 items.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill