Joseph R. Wickes papers

Conditions Governing Access StatementCollection is open for research.

Preferred Citation[item identification], Joseph R. Wickes papers, MS 0066, Archives and Special Collections, Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland.

Scope and ContentThis collection contains the papers of Col. Joseph Wickes. Many of the papers are legal documents from his law practice while there are also various financial records. The collection has been organized alphabetically by subject. As Maryland was a slave state there are numerous documents dealing with the inventory, sale, and hire of enslaved African Americans. As well as legal dealings with free African Americans. There is a contemporary compiles Wickes family genealogy at the end of the collection.