Charles Lewellyn Letter, February 9, 1847

Dublin Core

Title

Charles Lewellyn Letter, February 9, 1847

Subject

Antebellum Plantation Life

Description

The overseer indicates cotton has not been shipped due to back orders at the landing, corn land is ready for planting, and the runaway slave Milton has not been heard from and is probably on his way to North Carolina.

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

February 9, 1847

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: 43, folder: 1002

Coverage

United States: Alabama (Greene County; Hobbie)
United States: North Carolina

Text Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Paper

Files

Charles_Lewellyn_1847_2_9.pdf

Citation

Charles Lewellyn, “Charles Lewellyn Letter, February 9, 1847,” Plantation Letters, accessed October 20, 2026, https://plantationletters.org/items/show/46.