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WILSON AND HAIRSTON #4134 10
PAPERS.
[underlined Chronological Analysis] (Continued):
[underlined 1814-1832] (Continued):
Included also are letters from Peter Hairston's overseers to him about plantation management; letters to Peter Hairston from Robert and Samuel Hairston about the Virginia markets and goods they had purchased for him; and five letters in 1832 from R.H. Toler (?), William H. Rives, R.R. Gurley, and John McPhail to Robert Hairston about the American Colonization Society and the manumission of six of Hairston's slaves who were sent to Liberia.

The majority of the legal papers as well as some business correspondence are related to the case of Robert Hairston v. Joel, Elisha, and William Estes, a suit concerning the sale of Robert Hairston's tobacco through the Estes commission business, which appears to have lasted from 1818 to 1829. There is correspondence between Robert Hairston and Joel, Elisha and William Estes, Peter Hairston, Thomas Ruffin and Thomas Settle about the case as well as summons and despositions.

In addition there are legal papers related to suits to which Peter Hairston was a party, especially Peter Hairston v. Joshua Young, and bills of sale for slave purchases, deeds for land purchases, property tax payments, promissory notes, overseers agreements, and jailors' bills for keeping runaway slaves, all for Peter, Robert, and Samuel Hairston.

The financial papers for this period are chiefly Samuel, Robert and Peter Hairston's accounts with Lynchburg, Petersburg, Richmond, and Fayetteville merchants for their crop sales and for general merchandise. There are also receipts for tobacco hauled to these markets; doctors' bills for attending slaves; and bills for the construction in 1823 of the Oak Hill home of Samuel Hairston.

There is scattered family and personal correspondence including letters between Ruth Stovall (Hairston) Wilson Hairston and Peter Hairston following her first husband's death; letters to Ruth Stovall (Hairston) Wilson Hairston and Peter Hairston from Agnes John Peter Wilson (1801-1880) away at Salem Boarding School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, from 1813 to 1814, and living in Raleigh from 1815 to 1816 (?); and letters to Ruth Stovall (Hairston) Wilson Hairston from her cousins Green and Peter Pryor about their homes in Williamson county, Tennessee.

The miscellaneous material in the period 1814 to 1832 includes Minutes of the Sandy Creek Baptist Association, 1825 to 1829; lists of clothing for the slaves of Peter, Robert, and Samuel Hairston; lists of clothing for the slaves of Peter, Robert, and Samuel Hairston; and lists of tools and livestock at their respective plantations.

[underlined 1833-1880]
3700 items.
The papers for this period are principally those of Samuel Hairston (1788-1875), Robert Hairston (1783-1852), Ruth Stovall (Hairston) Wilson Hairston (1783-1869), and Peter Wilson Hairston (1819-1886). [See family

Dec. 1978
by
M.V. Jones