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Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 640 items) |
Abstract | The collection includes papers of the Turner and McNeill families of Cumberland and Harnett counties, N.C., chiefly deeds, plats, promissory notes, bills, accounts, and receipts. Family letters, chiefly 1843-1879, are those of Henry Marshall Turner (1800-1871), Alabama physician who moved to Cumberland County, N.C., and his wife Caroline McNeill Turner. These include letters from Martha and Julia Turner while they were enrolled in Floral College, near Fayetteville; letters from friends and relatives in Alabama, Tennessee, and Texas; and a few Civil War letters from members of the family in the Confederate Army in Tennessee and Virginia. Also included are physicians' accounts and records, 1822-1829 and 1848-1858, of Daniel McPhaul and, 1854-1858, of H. Turner; and merchants' daybooks, 1854-1860. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Roslyn Holdzkom, December 1992
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, October 2020
This collection was rehoused under the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.
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The collection includes papers of the Turner and McNeill families of Cumberland and Harnett counties, N.C., chiefly deeds, plats, promissory notes, bills, accounts, and receipts. Family letters, chiefly 1843-1879, are those of Henry Marshall Turner (1800-1871), Alabama physician who moved to Cumberland County, N.C., and his wife Caroline McNeill Turner. These include letters from Martha and Julia Turner while they were enrolled in Floral College, near Fayetteville; letters from friends and relatives in Alabama, Tennessee, and Texas; and a few Civil War letters from members of the family in the Confederate Army in Tennessee and Virginia. Also included are physicians' accounts and records, 1822-1829 and 1848-1858, of Daniel McPhaul and, 1854-1858, of H. Turner; and merchants' daybooks, 1854-1860.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
Many early papers are legal documents having to do with agreements or obligations concerning land and other property, money, debts, and estates. Many of these relate to John, Archibald, Neill, and other members of the McNeill family. In the 1830s, many of the papers relate to Archibald Stewart McNeill, Henry Marshall Turner, and members of the related Covington and Ferguson families. There are also family letters, dated chiefly 1843-1879, to Henry Marshall Turner and his wife, Caroline Elizabeth McNeill Turner, from their daughters Martha and Julia at Floral College, Robeson County, N.C., in the mid-1840s and from friends and relatives in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia. There are also a few Civil War letters from members of the family serving with Confederate forces in Tennessee and Virginia. There are also items relating to the Turners' son-in-law, physician William Murchison McNeill, and to other members of the McNeill and McDougald families of Harnett County.
Folder 1 |
1763-1805 |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-312/1 |
Land grants, 1789, 1804 |
Folder 2 |
1807-1828 |
Folder 3 |
1830-1839 |
Folder 4 |
1842-1845 |
Folder 5 |
1846 |
Folder 6 |
1847 |
Folder 7 |
1848-1849 |
Folder 8 |
1850-1859 |
Folder 9 |
1860-1863 |
Folder 10 |
1864-1869 |
Folder 11 |
1870-1877 |
Folder 12 |
1879-1909 |
Folder 13 |
Undated Letters |
Folder 14 |
Undated Other items |