African American Documentary Resources
Enhancing African American Documentary Resources in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill
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: Badger family.
Collection number: 953-z
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Abstract: The Badger family of North Carolina included George E. Badger, superior court judge, secretary of the Navy, and United States senator, 1844-1855, of Raleigh, N.C.; his third wife, Delia Continue reading “Badger family papers, 1835-1888.”
Creator: Blackford family.
Collection number: 1912
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Abstract: Blackford family members lived in Fredericksburg, Lynchburg, and Alexandria, Va. Chiefly correspondence of three generations of the Blackford family. Included are letters relating to the involvement of Mary Berkeley (Minor) Blackford Continue reading “Blackford family papers, 1742-1953.”
Creator: Bannister, Lemuel.
Collection number: 4811-z
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Abstract: Lemuel Bannister was president of the Green Swamp Company, a lumber business based in Wilmington and Bolton, N.C. Twenty-seven letters from Lemuel Bannister to his fiancee, Frankie (Frances?) Kenyon of Clevelend, Ohio, written between Continue reading “Lemuel Bannister papers, 1868.”
Creator: Burton, Thomas W.
Collection number: 4217
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Abstract: Thomas W. Burton and his wife Nancy lived in Yanceyville, Caswell County, N.C., from about 1850 to 1908. Correspondence between Burton and family members in Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama; the correspondents report to one Continue reading “Thomas W. Burton papers, 1809-1921.”
Creator: Branson, E. C. (Eugene Cunningham), 1861-1933.
Collection number: 2610
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Abstract: Branson was an educator, author, and editor, president of the State Normal School of Georgia, 1900-1912, head of its department of rural economics and sociology, 1912-1914, and founder and head of the rural social economics program at the Continue reading “E. C. Branson papers, 1895-1933.”
Creator: Bell, Hamon.
Collection number: 4084-z
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Abstract: Indentures, deeds, bonds, and other legal papers, 1738-1841, of Hamon Bell of Camden County, N.C.; letters received by Bell; and Bell family data. Included are items pertaining to the sale and exchange of land and slaves with Caleb Continue reading “Hamon Bell papers, 1738-1841.”
Creator: Bertie County (N.C.) account books.
Collection number: 1758
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Abstract: Antebellum account books from Bertie County, N.C., including general merchandising accounts of Cherry and Outlaw and of H. Thompson; accounts of Gray and Pierce for wages paid in the production of shingles and for sales of shingles Continue reading “Bertie County (N.C.) account books, 1833-1849; 1881-1893.”
Creator: Bruce, George Wolfe.
Collection number: 5225-z
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Abstract: George Wolfe Bruce of New York was the son of George Bruce, co-founder and co-owner of Bruce Type Foundry, New York, and the brother of David Wolfe Bruce, Matilda Bruce, and Catherine Bruce. Letters written by George Wolfe Bruce in Continue reading “George Wolfe Bruce papers, 1853-1854.”
Creator: Badgett, Kenneth Woltz, collector.
Collection number: 4692
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Abstract: Materials collected by Kenneth W. Badgett of Dobson, Surry County, N.C. Included are items relating to Devotion, the Surry County estate that Richard J. Reynolds, Jr., and Elizabeth Dillard Reynolds built between 1930 and 1939 for Continue reading “Kenneth Woltz Badgett (collector) papers, 1900-2001.”