Samuel Chapman papers
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- Title:
- Samuel Chapman papers
- Date:
- 1800 to 1822
- Creator:
- Chapman, Samuel, active 1800-1822
- Description:
- Ledger B (352 p.) records accounts of 1800-1817, mostly 1800-1815, itemizing Chapman's extensive personal and business transactions. They involve agriculture, property, buildings, labor, hiring, and sale of enslaved people, goods and services, bills of exchange, artisans, the militia, horse breeding, estate settlements, legal business, plantations, tobacco, tobacco warehouses, a midwife, free blacks, family genealogy, business at various towns in the county and elsewhere, and women as planters, property owners, and renters. Two financial documents, dating 1815 and 1822, include an additional list of slaves.
- Location:
- Charles County (Md.)
- Subject:
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- Trafficking in enslaved persons -- Maryland -- 19th century
- Women plantation owners -- Maryland -- 19th century
- Slaveholders -- 19th century
- Plantations -- Maryland
- Tobacco farmers -- Maryland
- Enslaved persons -- Maryland -- 19th century
- Agricultural laborers -- Maryland
- Decedents' estates -- Maryland
- Acceptances -- Maryland
- Lawyers -- Maryland
- Horse breeders -- Maryland
- Nurses -- Maryland
- Women in agriculture -- Maryland
- Charles County (Md.) -- Commerce
- Format:
- documents (object genre)
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 3 items
- Digital Collection:
- Samuel Chapman papers
- Provenance:
- Source unknown
- Rights:
- Free Re-UsePublic Domain
- Identifier:
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- RL.30470
- 000828676
- duke:600717
- secst0481
- ark:/87924/r4k934x7q
- bc0b5db7-4f7f-4365-a8a8-13547ac7ae4b
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- https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r4k934x7q
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