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Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 96 items) |
Abstract | Ferdinand Hannon Whitaker was a farmer of Halifax County, N.C. The collection includes bills, receipts, accounts for the sale of cotton at Norfolk, Va., and Petersburg, Va., and Baltimore, Md., and for the purchase of goods; pocket account books of expenses and transactions, 1857-1890; family correspondence; and records of a Methodist Sunday school, 1854-1881. |
Creator | Whitaker, Ferdinand Hannon, d. 1896. |
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
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.
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Ferdinand Hannon Whitaker (d. 1896) was a farmer of Halifax County, N.C.
Back to TopThe collection includes bills, receipts, accounts for the sale of cotton at Norfolk, Va., and Petersburg, Va., and Baltimore, Md., and for the purchase of goods; pocket account books of expenses and transactions, 1857-1890; family correspondence; and records of a Methodist Sunday school, 1854-1881.
Back to TopScattered letters to Ferdinand H. Whitaker from friends and relatives, including his wife's brother, Lemuel D'Berry. The earliest letters concern leisure activities, travel, and the price of crops and commoditites. There are a few Civil War letters from M. T. Whitaker while stationed at Yorktown, Va., 1861, and a letter to F. H. Whitaker from his wife and daughter while he was serving in a Home Guard Regiment, 1864. Post war letters are scattered and irregular and mention taxes, sale of property, and other business and personal matters. There are some letters, 1894-1895, of genealogical inquiry.
Folder 1 |
Original finding aid |
1849-1895 |
Accounts with cotton factories and commission merchants in Norfolk, Va., and Petersburg, Va., and Baltimore, Md. There are also miscellaneous merchandise and fertilizer accounts, bills, statements, receipts, and price lists.
Folder 2 |
1852-1896 |
Folder 3 |
Volume I.1: Whitakers Chapel class book, 1854-1867Class roll with notes on marriages and family deaths. |
Folder 4 |
Volume I.2: Sunday school roll book, 1871-1881Includes notes on marriages, deaths, and removals. |
Includes a day book and nine pocket-sized account books for general merchandise and cotton.
Folder 5 |
Volume II.1: Day book, 1844 |
Folder 6 |
Volume II.2: Account book, 1857-1861 |
Folder 7 |
Volume II.3: Account book, 1861-1868 |
Folder 8 |
Volume II.4: Account book, 1867-1868 |
Folder 9 |
Volume II.5: Account book, 1870-1873 |
Folder 10 |
Volume II.6: Account book, 1874-1880 |
Folder 11 |
Volume II.7: Account book, 1881-1884 |
Folder 12 |
Volume II.8: Account book, 1884-1886 |
Folder 13 |
Volume II.9: Account book, 1885-1888 |
Folder 14 |
Volume II.10: Account book, 1889-1890 |