Patterson Family Medical Receipt

Patterson Family Medical Receipt

Enslaved People

Receipt for medical services (visit and medicine) by a local physician, Dr. G. W. Caldwell, to a slave, in 1862. William Patterson paid $10 for the doctor's services. It is unknown whether the slave was owned by Patterson or if he was acting on someone else's behalf.

Dr. G. W. Caldwell

J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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J. Murrey Atkins Library. University of North Carolina at Charlotte

January 25, 1862

Brayden Milam

Public Domain

English

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United States 19th Century

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