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Size | Approximately 155 items. |
Abstract | The collection contains late 18th- and 19th-century financial and legal papers of the Grimes and Montgomery families of Orange County, N.C. Financial documents are primarily accounts and receipts for cash, taxes, debts, goods, and livestock. Legal documents are land indentures, grants, and deeds (some containing land surveys); court summonses and bench warrants for unpaid debts; and wills and estate papers. Also included are two family letters about financial concerns written in 1857 from Santa Fe, Tenn.; paper money from North Carolina's late colonial period; and an 1857 certificate signed by Andrew Johnson, then governor of Tennessee. |
Creator | Grimes (Family : Orange County, N.C.)
Montgomery (Family : Orange County, N.C.) |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Laura Clark Brown, February 2013
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The collection contains late 18th- and 19th-century financial and legal papers of the Grimes and Montgomery families of Orange County, N.C. Financial documents are primarily accounts and receipts for cash, taxes, debts, goods, and livestock. Legal documents are land indentures, grants, and deeds (some containing land surveys); court summonses and bench warrants for unpaid debts; and wills and estate papers. Also included are two family letters about financial concerns written in 1857 from Santa Fe, Tenn., paper money from North Carolina's late colonial period, and an 1857 certificate signed by Andrew Johnson, then governor of Tennessee.
Individuals represented in the documents include Charles Grimes, Phebe Grimes, Lidia Grimes, Betsey Grimes, Elizabeth Grimes, Alexander Montgomery, William Montgomery, Rebecca Montgomery, James Montgomery, Hamilton Montgomery, Hugh Montgomery, Alexander Mebane, and John Armstong.
Back to TopOversize Paper OP-270/1 |
North Carolina paper money, 1760-1772 |
Folder 1 |
1774-1813 |
Folder 2 |
1814-1849 |
Folder 3 |
1850-1870 |
Oversize Paper OP-270/2 |
Land deed, 1868 |