Charles Lewellyn Letter, September 10, 1846
Dublin Core
Title
Charles Lewellyn Letter, September 10, 1846
Subject
Antebellum Plantation Life
Description
The overseer indicates he has 60 cotton pickers working fields picking 5000 to 6000 pounds of cotton per day. He lists seven pickers and their average poundage picked over three days. The name of the local tax collector is provided, and 12 sick slaves are listed by name.
Creator
Charles Lewellyn
Source
Cameron Family Papers, 1757-1978
Publisher
Photographed, transcribed, tagged, and shared in this Omeka Collection by Dr. Kevin Oliver, North Carolina State University College of Education
Date
September 10, 1846
Rights
As noted in the source collection, “copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.”
Relation
The Southern Historical Collection at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Format
PDF
Language
English
Type
Personal correspondence, letter
Identifier
series: 1.3.3, box: 42, folder: 992
Coverage
United States: Alabama (Greene County; Hobbie)
Text Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Paper
Files
Collection
Citation
Charles Lewellyn, “Charles Lewellyn Letter, September 10, 1846,” Plantation Letters, accessed October 21, 2026, https://plantationletters.org/items/show/38.