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Size | 600 items (0.5 linear feet) |
Abstract | Laurens Hinton was a merchant and planter of Mobile, Ala., and Raleigh, N.C., who lived at Broomfield, a plantation three miles south of Raleigh. The collection includes correspondence, business items, and legal papers of Hinton; letters from Hinton's father in Wake County, N.C.; letters from Willis L. Miller at Union Theological Seminary; letters to Jane Constance (Miller) Hinton, wife of Hinton and daughter of Henry Miller and Isabella Miller, when she was a student at the Hillsboro Female Academy, in Hillsborough, N.C., and while visiting relatives in Virginia; and letters, 1825-1833, from Thomas P. Hunt. Letters deal chiefly with family matters, but touch on cotton prices, the slave trade, Wake County politics, and Broomfield plantation affairs during Reconstruction. The addition of 1974 is a commonplace book by Jane Constance Hinton. The addition of 2003 is Jane Constance Hinton's account of her wartime experience, "The Reminiscences of the Key Basket of a Southern Matron." The account describes her life and duties at Broomfield prior to Laurens Hinton's death in 1864; service rendered by individual slaves and freedmen; and aid given to "Sherman's bummers" by other slaves and freedmen, particularly with respect to the 13 April 1865 raids on the plantation. |
Creator | Hinton, Laurens, d. 1864. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English. |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, October 2009
This collection was rehoused with support from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Laurens Hinton was a merchant and planter of Mobile, Ala., and Raleigh, N.C. He married his cousin, Jane Constance Miller (1827-1897), in 1851. The following year they purchased and moved to Broomfield, an 843-acre plantation located three miles south of Raleigh. Laurens died in 1864, leaving a widow and four small children behind. Jane Constance Hinton remained at Broomfield until her death in 1897.
Back to TopThe collection includes correspondence, business items, and legal papers of Laurens Hinton, a merchant and planter of Mobile, Ala., and Raleigh, N.C. Included are letters from Hinton's father in Wake County, N.C.; letters from Willis L. Miller at Union Theological Seminary; letters to Jane Constance (Miller) Hinton (b. 1827), wife of Hinton and daughter of Henry Miller and Isabella Miller, when she was a student at Hillsboro Female Academy in Hillsborough, N.C., and while visiting relatives in Virginia; and letters (1825-1833) from Thomas P. Hunt. The letters deal chiefly with family matters, but touch on cotton prices, the slave trade, Wake County politics, and Broomfield plantation affairs during Reconstruction. The addition of 1974 is a commonplace book by Jane Constance Hinton. The addition of 2003 is Jane Constance Hinton's account of her Civil War experience, "The Reminiscences of the Key Basket of a Southern Matron." The account describes her life and duties at Broomfield prior to Laurens Hinton's death in 1864; service rendered by individual slaves and freedmen; and aid given to "Sherman's bummers" by other slaves and freedmen, particularly with respect to the 13 April 1865 raids on the plantation.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
Correspondence, business items, and legal papers of Laurens Hinton, a merchant and planter of Mobile, Ala., and Raleigh, N.C. Included are letters from Hinton's father in Wake County, N.C.; letters from Willis L. Miller at Union Theological Seminary; letters to Jane Constance (Miller) Hinton (b. 1827), wife of Hinton and daughter of Henry Miller and Isabella Miller, when she was a student at Hillsboro Female Academy in Hillsborough, N.C., and while visiting relatives in Virginia; and letters (1825-1833) from Thomas P. Hunt. The letters deal chiefly with family matters, but touch on cotton prices, the slave trade, Wake County politics, and Broomfield plantation affairs during Reconstruction. The addition of 1974 is a commonplace book by Jane Constance Hinton. The addition of 2003 is Jane Constance Hinton's account of her Civil War experience, "The Reminiscences of the Key Basket of a Southern Matron." The account describes her life and duties at Broomfield prior to Laurens Hinton's death in 1864; service rendered by individual slaves and freedmen; and aid given to "Sherman's bummers" by other slaves and freedmen, particularly with respect to the 13 April 1865 raids on the plantation.
Folder 1 |
7 June 1825-7 May 1839 |
Folder 2 |
3 February 1840-28 May 1844 |
Folder 3 |
June 1844-December 1846 |
Folder 4 |
January 1847-December 1851 |
Folder 5 |
January 1852-December 1853 |
Folder 6 |
January 1854-December 1856 |
Folder 7 |
January 1857-December 1859 |
Folder 8 |
January 1860-December 1862 |
Folder 9 |
January 1863-September 1896 |
Folder 10 |
Undated |
Folder 11 |
Commonplace book |
Folder 12 |
"The Reminiscences of the Key Basket of a Southern Matron," 1890, 1895, and undated |
Folder 13 |
Typed transcription, "The Reminiscences of the Key Basket of a Southern Matron," 1890, 1895, and undated |