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Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 250 items) |
Abstract | William H. McLaurin (1840-1913) was a Scotland County, N.C., planter and a student, 1859-1861, at the University of North Carolina. The collection includes bills, receipts, accounts, and slight family correspondence, chiefly 1866-1880, of McLaurin. Also included are letters McLaurin wrote when he was a student at the University of North Carolina in the late 1850s; a volume containing stud records and remedies for horse and cow diseases, 1887-1889; and scattered antebellum accounts for purchases, slave records, estate settlement papers, and letters of members of the McLaurin family, planters in Richmond County, N.C., and other locations. |
Creator | McLaurin, William H., 1840-1913. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Staff, 1993
Encoded by: Peter Hymas, November 2004
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, December 2009
Funding from the State Library of North Carolina supported the encoding of this finding aid.
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William H. McLaurin (1840-1913) was a Scotland County, N.C., planter and a student, 1859-1861, at the University of North Carolina. McLaurin was one of the Confederate veterans awarded his degree from UNC in 1911.
Back to TopThe collection includes bills, receipts, accounts, and slight family correspondence, chiefly 1866-1880 of William H. McLaurin. Also included are letters McLaurin wrote when he was a student at the University of North Carolina in the late 1850s; a volume containing stud records and remedies for horse diseases and cow diseases, 1887-1889; and scattered antebellum accounts for purchases, slave records, estate settlement papers, mortgages, deeds, and letters of members of the McLaurin family, planters in Richmond County, N.C., and other places.
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Papers include bills, receipts, accounts, and slight family correspondence, chiefly 1866-1880, of McLaurin. Of interest are letters McLaurin wrote when he was a student at the University of North Carolina in the late 1850s. In addition, there are scattered antebellum accounts for purchases, slave records, estate settlement papers, mortgages, deeds, and letters of members of the McLaurin family, planters in Richmond County, N.C., and other locations; and a manuscript of a chapter on the 18th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, C.S.A., by McLaurin for Walter Clark's History of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War of 1861-1865 (Goldsboro, 1901).
Folder 1 |
1789-1819 |
Folder 2 |
1820-1823 |
Folder 3 |
1824-1832 |
Folder 4 |
1833-1849 |
Folder 5 |
1850-1859 |
Folder 6 |
1860
Digital version: Letter from William H. McLaurin to D. A. McLaurin, 2 [October] 1860 |
Folder 7 |
1861-1866 |
Folder 8 |
1867-1869 |
Folder 9 |
1870-1872 |
Folder 10 |
1873-1874 |
Folder 11 |
1875-1876 |
Folder 12 |
1877-1878 |
Folder 13 |
1879-1880 |
Folder 14 |
1881-1913 |
Folder 15 |
Undated |
Folder 16 |
Manuscript |
Arrangement: chronological.
Pocket-sized volumes of day-by-day accounts.
Folder 17 |
Volume 1, 1842Daily accounts for pork, potatoes, whiskey, corn, and fodder. |
Folder 18 |
Volume 2, 1872Daily accounts for tools, staple foods, and general merchandise. |
Folder 19 |
Volume 3, 1880Daily accounts for bags and cash as well as personal memoranda. |
Folder 20 |
Volume 4, 1887-1889Stud book, also containing some remedies for horse and cow ailments. |
Photographs of William H. McLaurin, 1861-1875 and undated.
Image Folder PF-1596/1 |
Photographs of William H. McLaurin, 1861-1875 and undated |
PF-1596/1
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