Leathers
- Name
- Leathers
- Latitude
- 36.09285938
- Longitude
- 78.81368008
- State or Province
- North Carolina
- Country
- USA
- Description
- Leathers likely refers to land sold by the Leathers family to white enslaver Richard Bennehan (1743-1825) in 1814, 1816 or 1826. Members of the Leathers family served as overseers of land for the Cameron and Bennehan families.
- Black people were enslaved by members of the white Cameron and related families at this place in the 1800s before emancipation.
- Place Type
- Plantation
- Bibliographic Citation
- Anderson, Jean Bradley. Piedmont Plantation: The Bennehan-Cameron Family and Lands in North Carolina. Durham, North Carolina: The Historic Preservation Society of Durham, 1985.
- Cameron Family Papers, 1757-1978. Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Orange Co. N. C. – Deed Book 15
- Source Resource
- https://onthesegrounds.lib.unc.edu/api/items/1220
- Source Site
- https://onthesegrounds.lib.unc.edu/
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