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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in Louise Taylor Pharr's Ancestors and Descendants of the Honorable Seth Lewis (1764-1848) and His Wife, Nancy Hardeman, #3132-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Louise Taylor (Mrs. John Newton) Pharr of New Iberia, La., May 1955.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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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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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, June 2010

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• Hardeman family--Genealogy.
• Lewis family--Genealogy.
• Lewis, Nancy Hardeman.
• Lewis, Seth, 1764-1848.
• Louisiana--Genealogy.
• Mississippi--Genealogy.
• Perkins family--Genealogy.
• Plantation life--Louisiana--Saint Landry Parish.
• Plantations--Louisiana--Saint Landry Parish.
• Saint Landry Parish (La.)--Social life and customs.
• Taylor family--Genealogy.
• Tennessee--Genealogy.
• Watts, Amelia Thomas, b. 1826.

Seth Lewis (1764-1848) was a native of New England who moved to the South with his parents around 1774. He was chief justice of the Mississippi Territory and district judge in Louisiana. In 1793 he married Nancy Hardeman of Nashville, Tenn.

The collection includes "Ancestors and Descendants of the Honorable Seth Lewis (1764-1848) and His Wife, Nancy Hardeman," compiled circa 1955 by Louise Taylor Pharr of New Iberia, La. The compilation contains genealogy and pertinent documents relating to the Lewis, Hardeman, Perkins, Taylor, and allied families in Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, and other southern states, with index and biography. Included is "A Summer on a Louisiana Cotton Plantation in 1832" (17 pages), by Amelia Thomas Watts, relating to the plantation of Seth Lewis near Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, La.