Karen Sutton asked the other day about Carter Braxton, Virginia signer
of the Declaration of Independence, and whether there is an expert out
there on him and his slaves.

The only good scholarship on Braxton is that of the late Alonzo Thomas
Dill, who wrote mostly on Braxton's public life, there being a limited
amount of good documentation available on his private life and his early
career as a planter. Braxton died in October 1797, in rather dire
financial straits, suggesting that the enslaved Missiouri residents
about which Karen Sutton once asked may have belonged to some other
(perhaps a namesake) member of the Braxton family for a long time before
going out to Missouri.

Brent Tarter
The Library of Virginia
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