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Title: Patterson Family. William Patterson. Papers
Creator: Patterson, William, 1806-1886
Date Created: 1826-09-09, 1872-04-03
Subjects--Topical: Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Farm management, Armies, Swearing, Enslavement
Description: Includes a certificate for militia duty, a marriage license (Photostat), correspondence (concerning typhus fever outbreak among enslaved individuals on the plantation), and a legal complaint by William Patterson against Thomas M. Alexander for pro...

Title: Patterson Family. William Patterson. Receipts
Creator: Patterson, William, 1806-1886
Date Created: 1827, 1868
Subjects--Topical: Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Farm management, Home economics, Enslavers
Description: Primarily receipts, I.O.U.s, and other financial documents about various purchases including medical services, weaving services, textiles, real estate, newspaper subscriptions, butter, eggs, cotton, school tuition, horses, and other farm animals. ...

Title: Patterson family. William Patterson. Freedmen and enslaved individuals
Creator: Patterson, William, 1806-1886
Date Created: 1832, 1865
Subjects--Topical: Enslavers, Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Farm management, Slave bills of sale, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Enslaved persons--Emancipation, Sharecropping, Enslavement
Description: Includes slave bills-of-sale, correspondence regarding formerly enslaved people, correspondence regarding the Freedmen's Bureau, sharecropping terms offered to individuals formerly enslaved by William Patterson, and bartering and wage documentatio...