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Collection Number: 00144

Collection Title: Caswell County (N.C.) Papers, 1701-1905.

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available through the World Wide Web. See the Duplication Policy section for more information.

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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Size 3.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1550 items)
Abstract Caswell County, N.C., was established in 1777. The collection includes unrelated business and legal papers and books of several generations of Caswell County, N.C., residents, including papers, 1701-1905, relating to pension claims, bonds, mortgages, real estate, and other legal matters; and volumes, 1807-1873, including general merchandise daybooks and ledgers, and blacksmiths' accounts, 1807-1850, of William Lea and Company; other merchants' accounts, 1853-1859, with the common schools; and county court accounts, 1872-1873.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Caswell County (N.C.) Papers, #144, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from the Caswell County (N.C.) Commissioners prior to 1940.
Additional Descriptive Resources
A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, December 2009; Nancy Kaiser, January 2021

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

Diacritics and other special characters have been omitted from this finding aid to facilitate keyword searching in web browsers.

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Caswell County, N.C., was established in 1777.

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The collection includes unrelated business and legal papers and books of several generations of Caswell County, N.C., residents, including papers, 1701-1905, relating to pension claims, bonds, mortgages, real estate, and other legal matters; and volumes, 1807-1873, including general merchandise daybooks and ledgers, and blacksmiths' accounts, 1807-1850, of William Lea and Company; other merchants' accounts, 1853-1859, with the common schools; and county court accounts, 1872-1873.

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Contents list

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Folder 1a

Original finding aid

Folder 1

1778, 1781-1799

Folder 2

1800-1804

Folder 3

1805-1806

Folder 4

1807-1809

Folder 5

1810-1811

Folder 6

1812-1813

Folder 7

1814-1815

Folder 8

1816

Folder 9

1817

Folder 10-11

Folder 10

Folder 11

1818

Folder 12

1819

Folder 13

1820

Folder 14

1821

Folder 15

1822

Folder 16

1823-1824

Folder 17

1825-1826

Folder 18

1827-1828

Folder 19

1829-1830

Folder 20

1831

Folder 21

1832

Folder 22

1833

Folder 23

1834

Folder 24

1835

Folder 25

1836

Folder 26

1837-1838

Folder 27

1839

Folder 28

1840

Folder 29

1841

Folder 30

1842

Folder 31

1843-1844

Folder 32

1845-1847

Folder 33

1848-1849

Folder 34

1850

Folder 35

1851

Folder 36

1852

Folder 37

1853

Folder 38

1854-1856

Folder 39

1857

Folder 40

1858

Folder 41

1859

Folder 42

1860

Folder 43

1861

Folder 44

1862

Folder 45

1863-1867

Folder 46a-46b

1868

Folder 46c

1869

Folder 47

1870-1876

Folder 48

1877-1879

Folder 49

1880-1883

Folder 50

1884-1887

Folder 51

1888-1889

Folder 52

1890-1899

Folder 53a-53b

1901

Folder 53c

1902-1905

Folder 54-57

Folder 54

Folder 55

Folder 56

Folder 57

Undated

Folder 58-63

Folder 58

Folder 59

Folder 60

Folder 61

Folder 62

Folder 63

Bills and receipts

Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-144/1

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Folder 64-66

Folder 64

Folder 65

Folder 66

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See Oversize Volumes SV-144/1-13.
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Volume 1: Daybook, 1807-1809

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Volume 2: Ledger, William Lea, 1808-1821

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Volume 3: Daybook, William Lea, 1819-1822

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Volume 4: Ledger, William and James Lea1822-1824

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Volume 5: Daybook, William Lea, 1823-1863

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Volume 6: Daybook, 1824-1826

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Volume 7: Ledger, 1824-1835

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Volume 8: Daybook, 1826-1827

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Volume 9: Daybook, William Lea, 1831-1833

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Volume 10: Daybook, 1835-1836

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Volume 11: Daybook, William Lea, 1836-1839

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Volume 12: Daybook, William Lea & Co., 1838-1839

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Volume 13: Daybook, 1841-1843

Folder 67

Volume 14: Account book, Thomas Gatewood, 1841-1846

Folder 68

Folder number not used

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Volume 15: Account book, 1843-1846

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Volume 16: Daybook, 1843-1854

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Volume 17: Daybook, William Lea & Sons, 1848

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Volume 18: Daybook, William Lea & Sons, 1848-1849

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Volume 19: Daybook, William Lea, 1849-1850

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Volume 20: Daybook, 1850-1852

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Volume 21: Daybook, 1852-1854

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Volume 22: Account book, Board of Superintendants of Common Schools, 1853-1859

Folder 69

Volume 23: Daybook, 1854-1855

Folder 70

Volume 24: Court account book, 1872-1873

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