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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the William Attmore Papers, #3607, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Caroline P. Constable of Charlotte, N.C., December 1962 and January 1967.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

Sensitive Materials Statement

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, September 2009

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.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Attmore family.
• Attmore, George Sitgreaves, 1794-1859.
• Attmore, Sarah Sitgreaves, 1771-1843.
• Attmore, William, d. 1800.
• Deeds--North Carolina--Craven County.
• Family--United States--Social life and customs.
• French Americans--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Merchants--North Carolina--History--18th century.
• Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Merchants--Pennsylvania--History--18th century.
• New Bern (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• New Bern (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• North Carolina--Commerce--Pennsylvania--History--18th century.
• Oliver, William H.
• Pennsylvania--Commerce--North Carolina--History--18th century.
• Philadelphia (Pa.)--Economic conditions.
• Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs.
• Sitgreaves family.
• Villard, Henry H., fl. 1821-1828.
• Women--United States--Social life and customs.

• Benjamin Robinson Huske Collection (#2323).

William Attmore (1750-1800) was a merchant and shipper of Philadelphia, Pa., and New Bern, N.C., who married Sarah Sitgreaves (1771-1843) of New Bern in 1790. They had four children including a son, George Sitgreaves Attmore.

George Sitgreaves Attmore (1794-1859) was a lawyer of New Bern, N.C., who married Mary Taylor (1806-1852), daughter of Isaac and Hannah Taylor. They had seven children.

Among the children of George S. and Mary Taylor Attmore were: Hannah T. (1829-1881), who married William Hollister Oliver (1829-1908); Sarah, who married Robert S. Primrose; and Dr. George S. Attmore who married Kate Lane.

The collection includes correspondence and business and personal papers of the Attmore family of Philadelphia, Pa., and New Bern, N.C., and other related persons. Papers, 1769-1800, are chiefly business papers of William Attmore and of Kaighn and Attmore, and consist of bills, accounts, receipts, and other items relating to trade in tea, rum, fine cloth, and other merchandise. There are also papers, financial and legal, concerning the acquisition of New Bern, N.C., real estate, military bounties for land in Tennessee, judgements and collections of debts due the merchants, and related business. The collection also includes papers, beginning in 1825, of George S. Attmore, concerning his law practice and his acquisition of property in New Bern, and papers, 1850-1859, of William H. Oliver also related to real estate in New Bern and Craven County, N.C. Throughout the collection are letters to Sarah Sitgreaves Attmore, chiefly from female relatives in New Bern, but also from her husband and other family members. Also included is a series of apparently unrelated letters of Henry H. Villard, a North Carolina schoolteacher of French parentage.

Oversize papers (X-OPF-3607/1).