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Papers of the Palmore family

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  • "Joseph S. Palmore papers"
  • "Palmore family papers"

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  • "In addition the collection contains rosters, returns, commissions, orders, and other material, 1836-1844, from the 17th regiment, Virginia militia; lists of court cases, bills, levies, summonses, and other papers, 1839-1846, from the Cumberland County Court; Bible records and Palmore genealogy; papers, 1956-1958, regarding the settlement of the estates of Charlie Ben Palmore and Sarah Palmore, and three ambrotypes."
  • "Business and legal papers contain accounts, receipts, promissory notes, deeds, a land plat, and tobacco receipts. Several items pertain to slavery, particularly hiring and sales, a whipping, and overseer accounts. Civil War items include a tax-in-kind receipt, a conscription exemption, a substitute acknowledgement, and an oath of allegiance."
  • "Topics and items of note in the correspondence include life of Mississippi settlers; slavery, including a reference to the loss of 18 slaves to cholera; crops and prices; a crippled child as God's judgment; banking affected by the Mexican War; prison life, 1864-1865, in Point Lookout, Md., and Elmira, N.Y.; Reconstruction including the death of General Hindman, and the black vote in the 1869 Virginia gubernatorial race."
  • "Correspondents include Lucy Ann Allen Palmore Gauldin, William James Palmore, Charles Benjamin Palmore, Martha J. Phillips Palmore and Thomas S. Bocock."
  • "Personal and official papers of Joseph S. Palmore together with family correspondence, business and legal papers, Bible records and ambrotypes."

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  • "Military records"
  • "Letters (Correspondence)"
  • "Ambrotypes"
  • "Bible records"
  • "History"
  • "Family papers"
  • "Genealogies"

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  • "Papers of the Palmore family"