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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the John Parkhill Papers, #1826, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Microfilm copy available.

Acquisitions Information

Acquired 1951

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Original finding aid is filed in folder 1a.

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• Banks and banking--Florida--History--19th century.
• Centre College (Danville, Ky.)--Students--History--19th century.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Families--Florida--Social life and customs.
• Florida--History--19th century.
• Freedmen--Florida.
• Irish Americans--Florida--History--19th century.
• Irish Americans--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Migration, Internal--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Page, James.
• Parkhill, George Washington, 1822-1862.
• Parkhill, John, 1786-1856.
• Postal service--Florida--History--19th century.
• Southern States--Description and travel.
• Tallahassee (Fla.)--Social life and customs.

John Parkhill, a native of Londonderry, Ireland, immigrated to Florida in the 1820's and was a banker for many years in Tallahassee. Parkhill was married three times--to Eleanor Quarles, Eliza Copland, and Lucy Randolph--and he had a total of seven children.

Business papers and family correspondence of Parkhill, a native of Ireland who moved from Richmond, Va., to Leon County, Fla., in the 1820s and worked as a postmaster at Tuscawilla and a banker in Tallahassee. There are also papers and letters of some of Parkhill's sons and daughters. Included in the collection are deeds; travel accounts, Virginia to Florida, 1821 and 1827; biography and family history of John Parkhill; letters from sons at Centre College, Danville, Ky.; letters from son George Washington Parkhill (1822-1862), physician, Florida state legislator, and Confederate officer, to his wife, written primarily while he was stationed at Evansport, Va., in the months prior to his death in battle; and letters from James Page, a former Parkhill family slave, 1866- 1875.