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[Identification of item], in the Samuel Lander Ledgers #5449, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from DeWitt Stone in January 2010 (Acc. 101228).

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Encoded by: Kiley Orchard, May 2010

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• Account books--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Carriage and wagon making--North Carolina.
• Enslaved persons--Employment--North Carolina.
• Lander, Samuel, 1792-1865.
• Lincolnton (N.C.)--History.
• Lincolnton (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Lincolnton (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Methodists--North Carolina.
• Slave bills of sale--North Carolina.
• Slavery--North Carolina.

The Reverend Samuel Lander Sr. was born in Tipperary, Ireland, in 1792, the son of William Lander. He married Eliza Ann Miller (b. 1793) in 1812; the couple had at least four children: William Lander; S. (Samuel) Lander, 1833-1904; Anne Lander (d. 1845), who married John Weber; and Sarah Lander, who married a Sherrill. Lander, a Methodist minister and carriage maker, moved to Boston, Mass., in 1818 because of Catholic intolerance of Methodism in Ireland. The family first lived in Newark, N.J., before settling in Salisbury, N.C., where Lander became a United States citizen. He lived in Lincolnton, N.C., from 1828 until his death in 1865.

Some of the information in this note was found in William L. Sherrill's Brief History of the Lander Family (Greensboro, N.C.: The Advocate Press, 1918).

The collection consists of two ledger books kept by Samuel Lander between 1838 and 1865. The books include records, often annotated with detailed information, of money received and expenditures for various household goods, his carriage making business, boarders, and land; records of deaths; and hours, terms of employment, agreements, and notes on various hired hands, apprentices, and slaves, some of whom may have been hired out by Lander's son William. Notes on hands and apprentices include conditions of hire, reports of bad conduct, and discharges. The entry for 2 March 1847 records the sale of slaves.

• SV-5449/1-2