Leak and Wall family papers, 1785-1897 [manuscript].

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Leak and Wall family papers, 1785-1897 [manuscript].

Chiefly business correspondence and accounts of John W. Leak (1816-1876), Rockingham, N.C., planter, with commission merchants; and family papers, 1877-1897, of his son-in-law, Henry Clay Wall (1841-1899). Volumes include a record, 1833-1847, of the Rockingham Sabbath School; antebellum plantation and slave records; personal accounts; diary of H. C. Wall, 1862, in Virginia while serving in the 23rd North Carolina Regiment, C.S.A., and in 1869; diary of Fannie (Leak) Wall, 1869-1870; financial records, 1861-1864, for the Richmond County (N.C.) Relief Committee for the Families of Volunteers; and scrapbooks.

200 items (1.0 linear ft.).

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Leak family.

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Wall, Fannie Leak, fl. 1869-1870.

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