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Size | 44 items |
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 another on the health of members of their families, the weather, the price of crops, the price of slaves, and the progress of the Civil War. The remainder of the papers are financial and legal documents that trace family crop sales and farm puchases; these documents end with a 1908 listing of Burton's personal property. |
Creator | Burton, Thomas W. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, August 1996
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
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Thomas W. Burton and his wife Nancy lived in Yanceyville, Caswell County, N.C., from about 1850 to 1908.
Back to TopCorrespondence between Burton and family members in Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama; the correspondents report to one another on the health of members of their families, the weather, the price of crops, the price of slaves, and the progress of the Civil War. The remainder of the papers are financial and legal documents that trace family crop sales and farm puchases; these documents end with a 1908 listing of Burton's personal property.
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