Kenneth Rayner Letter, December 21, 1845
Dublin Core
Title
Kenneth Rayner Letter, December 21, 1845
Subject
Antebellum Plantation Life
Description
Rayner writes to family friend and banker Duncan Cameron in Raleigh, describing the purchase of a new plantation in Arkansas with specifics on the land (acreage, above "high overflow" or flood stage, portion cleared, caving bank, in a favorable "Whig" county), land values per acre, and intention to relocate his slaves from Tennessee down river to the new plantation. He asks Cameron to sell some of his stocks to pay for the land acquisition. He notes missing his family in N.C.
Creator
Kenneth Rayner
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
December 21, 1845
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: 975
Coverage
United States: Arkansas
United States: Louisiana (New Orleans)
Text Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Paper
Files
Collection
Citation
Kenneth Rayner, “Kenneth Rayner Letter, December 21, 1845,” Plantation Letters, accessed October 20, 2026, https://plantationletters.org/items/show/65.