Creator: Hughes, John, fl. 1797-1833.
Collection number: 5512-z
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Abstract: John Hughes was a Patrick County, Va., planter. The collection is chiefly court Continue reading “John Hughes Papers, 1797-1833”
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Creator: Hughes, John, fl. 1797-1833.
Collection number: 5512-z
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Abstract: John Hughes was a Patrick County, Va., planter. The collection is chiefly court Continue reading “John Hughes Papers, 1797-1833”
Creator: Bryan and Leventhorpe family.
Collection number: 3994
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Abstract: Represented are members of the related Bryan, Leventhorpe, Davenport, and Avery families, including Edmund (1791-1874) and Ursilla (Hampton) Bryan of Rutherfordton, N.C.; their daughters, Ann Eliza (Bryan) Mills and Louise (Bryan) Continue reading “Bryan and Leventhorpe family papers, 1797-1940.”
Creator: Warren, Jack, fl. 1787.
Collection number: 673
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Abstract: Documents from the case of Jack Warren (alias Will Warren) vs. Stephen Pettes, in Norwich, Continue reading “Jack Warren papers, 1787.”
Creator: Ball, John, 1760-1817.
Collection number: 1811
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Abstract: John Ball and Keating Simons Ball (1818-1891) were planters of Charleston District, S.C. Records of Comingtee, a Cooper River, S.C., plantation, in Charleston District (later Berkeley County), and other rice plantations of the Ball family, Continue reading “John Ball and Keating Simons Ball books, 1779-1911.”
Creator: Legare, Thomas, fl. 1767-1774.
Collection number: 974-z
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Abstract: Thomas Legare was a commission merchant in Charleston, S.C., in the 1760s and 1770s. The volume contains receipts written to Thomas Legare from various individuals whose Continue reading “Thomas Legare receipt book, 1767-1774.”
Creator: Brownrigg family.
Collection number: 2226
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Abstract: Brownrigg family of Wicklow County, Ireland; Chowan, Pasquotank, and Hertford counties, N.C.; and Mississippi. Included are Richard Brownrigg (d. 1771) of Ireland; brothers John and Thomas Brownrigg; Thomas’s wife, Ruth; their son, Continue reading “Brownrigg family papers, 1736-1986.”
Creator: De Caradeuc family.
Collection number: 1497
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Abstract: Family and business correspondence, legal and political documents, reminiscences, and family history of the De Caradeuc family of France, Haiti, and South Carolina. Early letters and legal documents, 1771-1783 (in French), include a grant Continue reading “De Caradeuc family papers, 1771-1947.”
Creator: Page, William, 1764-1827.
Collection number: 1254
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Abstract: William Page of Retreat Plantation, St. Simons Island (Glynn Co.), Ga., grew rice and Sea Island cotton. Page also owned Colonel’s Island, Ga. The collection is primarily business papers Continue reading “William Page papers, 1783-1825.”
Creator: Coffield and Bellamy family.
Collection number: 3162
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Abstract: Land grants, deeds, bills, accounts, wills, other business papers, and some family correspondence of David Coffield (d. 1818?) of Edgecombe County, N.C.; his sons, Spier W. Coffield and John W. Coffield; and their Whitaker, Bellamy, Hall, and Continue reading “Coffield and Bellamy family papers, 1723-1920.”
Creator: Weissinger, Eliza Mary Bond, 1805-1875.
Collection number: 4443
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Abstract: Correspondence, financial and legal papers, and other materials relating to Eliza Mary Bond Johnston Weissinger of Hillsborough, N.C., and her family. The collection consists chiefly of Continue reading “Eliza Mary Bond Weissinger papers, 1785-1868.”