Charles Lewellyn Letter, March 23, 1847

Dublin Core

Title

Charles Lewellyn Letter, March 23, 1847

Subject

Antebellum Plantation Life

Description

The overseer describes planting corn, sowing oats and cotton seed, not whipping runaway Milton until he is back to health after his journey, slave Martha giving birth to a son, general health of slaves, and summer clothing ready for slaves.

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

March 23, 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: 1005

Coverage

United States: Alabama (Greene County; Greensboro; Montgomery)

Text Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Paper

Files

Charles_Lewellyn_1847_3_23.pdf

Citation

Charles Lewellyn, “Charles Lewellyn Letter, March 23, 1847,” Plantation Letters, accessed October 20, 2026, https://plantationletters.org/items/show/48.