Legal documents - Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia
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Identifier: 4780
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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Legal documents include wills, estate inventories, indentures and other land documents, summonses and other court documents, and accounts. Many relate to the ownership of slaves.
Dates
- 1750-1879.
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
.4 cubic feet. (.4 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Legal documents include wills, estate inventories, indentures and other land documents, summonses and other court documents, and accounts. Many relate to the ownership of slaves.
Physical Description
Financial Records, Legal Documents, Manuscripts
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- {**Date Initial Box List Was Completed**}
- EAD encoding:
- RMC Staff, Date of Encoding**}
- African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 19th century.
- African Americans -- History -- To 1863.
- Georgia -- History.
- Georgia -- Social life and customs.
- Indentures.
- Judicial records.
- Kentucky -- History.
- Kentucky -- Social life and customs.
- Legal documents.
- Legal instruments.
- North Carolina -- History.
- North Carolina -- Social life and customs.
- Slavery -- Georgia.
- Slavery -- Kentucky.
- Slavery -- North Carolina.
- Slavery -- United States.
- Slavery -- Virginia.
- Summonses.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Virginia -- History.
- Virginia -- Social life and customs.
- Wills.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- {**Date EAD Guide Is Published**}
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu