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Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 80 items) |
Abstract | Richard Everard Meade was a physician, of Amelia County, Va. Members of the Whitaker family lived in Halifax County, N.C. The collection contains family correspondence of Richard Everard Meade up to 1808 (including a few Revolutionary War items), and of Meade and his son-in-law at various places in Alabama and Mississippi, 1828-1866. Also included are scattered family papers, 1775-1893, of the Whitaker family of Halifax County, N.C., including letters from Confederate soldiers and a lawyer's letterpress copybook, 1890-1893. |
Creator | Meade (Family : Amelia County, Va.)
Whitaker (Family : Halifax County, N.C.) |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, March 1996
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, November 2010
This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
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Richard Everard Meade was a physician, of Amelia County, Va. Members of the Whitaker family lived in Halifax County, N.C.
Back to TopThe collection contains family correspondence of Richard Everard Meade up to 1808 (including a few Revolutionary War items), and of Meade and his son-in-law at various places in Alabama and Mississippi, 1828-1866. Also included are scattered family papers, 1775-1893, of the Whitaker family of Halifax County, N.C., including letters from Confederate soldiers and a lawyer's letterpress copybook, 1890-1893.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
Correspondence includes scattered indentures, deeds, patents and family notes among the letters.
Folder 1 |
Whitaker, 1775-1876 |
Oversize Paper OP-1132/1 |
Letter from "Nath Green" to Headquarters, 25 October 1781 |
Folder 2 |
Meade, 1730-1810 |
Folder 3 |
Meade, 1828-1841 |
Folder 4 |
Meade, 1844-1853 |
Folder 5 |
Meade, 1854-1866 |
Arrangement: chronological.
Folder 6 |
Volume 1: Whitaker family bible, 1855500 pp. |
Folder 7 |
Volume 2: Letterbook (press copies) of C. Whitaker, indexed, 1890-1893725 pp. |