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Size | About 50 items |
Abstract | Family and business correspondence, chiefly 1830s, and some financial papers, including slave bills of sale, of Laxton, merchant and postmaster at Collettesville (originally Burke County, later Caldwell County), N.C. Correspondence deals with buying and selling merchandise and with family and community matters, and includes one 1839 letter describing land for sale in "Cherokee country." |
Creator | Laxton, Levi. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, August 1996
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, December 2009
This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
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Family and business correspondence, chiefly 1830s, and some financial papers, including slave bills of sale, of Laxton, merchant and postmaster at Collettesville (originally Burke County, later Caldwell County), N.C. Correspondence deals with buying and selling merchandise and with family and community matters, and includes one 1839 letter describing land for sale in "Cherokee country."
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