Peckatone papers, 1758-1898 (bulk 1760-1834).

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Peckatone papers, 1758-1898 (bulk 1760-1834).

Peckatone papers, 1758-1898 (bulk 1760-1834).

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Papers of members of the Corbin, Turberville, Taliaferro, and Brown families who successively owned Peckatone plantation, Westmoreland county, Va. The collection reflects the history of colonial Virginia's trans-Atlantic tobacco economy, the management of family property and family relationships, and slavery and plantation life in the 18th and 19th centuries. Correspondence, 1764-1782, and accounts, 1760-1774, of Gawin Corbin's widow, Hannah (Lee) Corbin (1728-1782), concern her slaves and her participation in the tobacco economy. Correspondence, 1761-1774, and accounts, 1769-1774, of her lover, Richard Lingan Hall (d. 1774), pertain to the tobacco trade and his medical practice. Correspondence, 1774-1784, and accounts, 1764-1793, of Hannah's son-in-law, George Turberville (1742- 1793), concern plantation agriculture and disputes about family property. Accounts, 1786-1812, of his son, Gawin Corbin Turberville (d. 1814), include lists of slaves. Correspondence, 1829-1834, of George Frederick Brown (1810-1869) illuminates his service as U.S. consular agent in Algiers.

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