Allen Jones Letter, April 8, 1847
Dublin Core
Title
Allen Jones Letter, April 8, 1847
Subject
Antebellum Plantation Life
Description
A Mr. Allen C. Jones relays a message to Paul Cameron that his overseer Charles Lewellyn sent a Mr. Barnes to retrieve the runaway slave Milton in Tuskegee and return him to Greensboro, Alabama, where Lewellyn picked him up and returned him to the plantation. See related letter by W. F. Wade.
Creator
Allen C. Jones
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
April 8, 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: 1006
Coverage
United States: Alabama (Greensboro)
Text Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Paper
Files
Collection
Citation
Allen C. Jones, “Allen Jones Letter, April 8, 1847,” Plantation Letters, accessed October 20, 2026, https://plantationletters.org/items/show/71.