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Preferred Citation:
Martin Parks Burks Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Martin Parks Burks was the deputy sheriff of Bedford County, Virginia. Chiefly accounts, receipts, and business letters of
Martin P. Burks, 1798-1866, including records while he was deputy sheriff of Bedford County, Virginia.
Arrangement: Collection is arranged chronologically. Organization: The collection has been broken down into three series.
Series 1 are the accounts of Thomas Turpin, Series 2 are the papers relating to the sheriff's office of Bedford County, and
Series 3 are the personal papers of Martin P. Burks.
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