This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available through the World Wide Web. See the Duplication Policy section for more information.
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 300 items) |
Abstract | Gaston Hillary Wilder (1814-1873) was a planter of Johnston County and Wake County, N.C. The collection includes antebellum deeds, legal papers, and scattered accounts and letters of Gaston Hillary Wilder. Included are Wilder's account book as paymaster in the United States Army during the Mexican War; scattered household accounts and letters of Wilder's wife, Sarah E. Hinton Wilder, after his death; and papers of his brother, Samuel Wilder, of Greene County, Ala., including a farm account book, 1876-1880, general merchandise account books, 1885-1911, and other business papers. |
Creator | Wilder, Gaston Hillary, 1814-1873. |
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: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009; Nancy Kaiser, January 2021
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
Back to TopThe following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.
Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.
Gaston Hillary Wilder (1814-1873) was a planter of Johnston and Wake counties, N.C. He was a paymaster in the United States Army in the Mexican War.
Back to TopThe collection includes antebellum deeds, legal papers, and scattered accounts and letters of Gaston H. Wilder. Included are Wilder's account book as paymaster in the United States Army during the Mexican War; scattered household accounts and letters of Wilder's wife, Sarah E. Hinton Wilder, after his death; and papers of his brother, Samuel Wilder, of Greene County, Ala., including a farm account book, 1876-1880, general merchandise account books, 1885-1911, and other business papers.
Back to TopFolder 1aa |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1a |
Introductory material |
Folder 1b |
1838-1849 |
Folder 2 |
1850-1859 |
Folder 3 |
1860-1879 |
Folder 4 |
1880-1884 |
Folder 5 |
1885-1889 |
Folder 6 |
1890-1898 |
Folder 7 |
1905-1916 |
Folder 8 |
Undated |
Folder 9 |
Folder number not used |
Oversize Volume SV-779/1 |
Volume 1: Paymaster's account book, Gaston Hillary Wilder, 1847-1849 |
Folder 10 |
Volume 2: Plantation account book, Sarah E. Hinton Wilder, 1876-1880 |
Folder 11 |
Volume 3: Account book, Samuel Wilder, 1881-1882 |
Folder 12 |
Volume 4: Account book, Samuel Wilder, 1885-1886 |
Folder 13 |
Volume 5: Account book, general store, Samuel Wilder, 1885-1889 |
Folder 14 |
Volume 6: Account book, general store, Samuel Wilder, 1887-1911 |
Folder 15 |
Volume 7: Memorandum book, Samuel Wilder, 1887-1888 |
Folder 16 |
Volume 8: Account book, Samuel Wilder, 1911-1916 |