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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Walter B. Myrick Papers, #538, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. Daniel L. Grant prior to 1940.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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• Agricultural laborers--Southern States--History--20th century.
• Columbus (Miss.)--Social life and customs.
• Commission merchants--Virginia.
• Hertford County (N.C.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
• Kader Biggs and Company (Norfolk, Va.)
• Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Merchants--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Murfreesboro (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Myrick, Anne O. Neal.
• Myrick, Walter B.
• Neal, John N.
• Neal, Thomas S.
• Newsome, Thomas, fl. 1838-1849.
• North Carolina--Economic conditions.
• Southampton County (Va.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
• Tenant farmers--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Virginia--Economic conditions.

Walter B. Myrick (fl. 1866-1905) was a general merchant in Murfreesboro, Hertford County, N.C., and Southampton County, Va.

The collection includes business correspondence, accounts, and other business papers, chiefly 1866-1905, relating primarily to Walter B. Myrick's transactions with Kader Biggs and Company, commission merchants and cotton factors, of Norfolk, Va. Also included are antebellum papers of Myrick's business and letters to Myrick's wife, Anne O. Neal Myrick of Murfreesboro, N.C., from her brothers, John N. Neal of Columbus, Miss., and Thomas S. Neal, of Virginia. Volumes are a merchandise daybook of Thomas Newsome, Southampton County, 1838-1849; a store ledger, 1891-1901; and accounts with farm laborers or tenants, 1904-1910.