Conveyances
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents, such as deeds, by which title to property is conveyed from one person to another.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Dickins family papers
Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 302
Abstract:
The Dickins Family Papers contains correspondence, writings, legal documents, and other papers relating to Rachel Dickins, Thomas Eden Dickins, and other members of the Dickins family, as well as diaries, poetry, and a collection of fifteenth through seventeenth century charters with seals. Other materials in the collection relate to James Bean, an assistant paymaster with the East India Company in the Philippines in 1764, Captain William Wilkinson, a financial agent to Sir George Hay, and...
Dates:
1449-2000 and undated, bulk 1449-1899
E. L. McGlashan collection of documents concerning slavery in the United States
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 555
Abstract:
This collection of 49 documents consists of manuscript bills of sale, receipts, estate appraisals, deeds of gift, manumission statements, promissory notes, and other papers documenting slave ownership and the slave trade in the United States between 1770 and 1863. The bulk of the material documents slavery in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Kentucky and Alabama. There are also legal documents recording slavery transactions in Maine, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and...
Dates:
1770-1863