Kenneth Rayner Letter, January 18, 1845
Dublin Core
Title
Kenneth Rayner Letter, January 18, 1845
Subject
Antebellum Plantation Life
Description
Rayner begins to set up his new plantation, slaves and mules relocated to site after 36-hour steamboat journey from Memphis, slave houses and fencing repaired, desires to purchase neighboring land from Arkansas Sentator Ashley, asks banker Duncan Cameron to forward check to New Orleans for payment on the land.
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
January 18, 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: 977
Coverage
United States: Chicot County, AR; New Orleans, LA; New York; Philadelphia, PA; Fayette, TN; Memphis, TN
Text Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Paper
Files
Collection
Citation
Kenneth Rayner, “Kenneth Rayner Letter, January 18, 1845,” Plantation Letters, accessed October 20, 2026, https://plantationletters.org/items/show/66.