1820s-1864
Johnson, Woodson, fl. 1820-1864
Header Record
Title: [Collection of Woodson Johnson] [Decimalized .01- .65]
Materials including 1850s ledger book, dozens of letters, and slave bills of sale from tobacco planter and slave dealer in Pittsylvania Co., Va., and Rockingham Co., N.C. Archive includes: Johnson's ledger book from the 1850s, recording debts for various plantation items as well as household goods, sales of tobacco and brandy, and dozens of entries re hiring of negro slaves, expenses, recording labor usage, etc.; Watson, F.W. ALS, dated 5-31-1850: "I sold Bob the day after you started…for $750, believing it was better to take that price than to risk his going back to Guilford where he might…
GLC09302
