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Size | 76 items |
Abstract | Planter, of Hawfields, Person County, N.C., and Democratic- Republican U.S. representative, 1797-1816. Chiefly letters, 1804-1816, to Stanford in Washington, D.C., from his family at home in Person County, giving news of the family and plantation; and a smaller number of Stanford's letters home, discussing public affairs and giving advice on how to manage the family's slaves. There are also scattered family papers, including correspondence between Cornelia Adeline (Stanford) Webb and her mother, Mary (Moore) Stanford. |
Creator | Stanford, Richard, 1767-1816. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, August 1996
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, December 2009
Updated by: Laura Hart, July 2021
This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
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Chiefly letters, 1804-1816, to Stanford in Washington, D.C., from his family at home in Person County, giving news of the family and plantation; and a smaller number of Stanford's letters home, discussing public affairs and giving advice about the people they claimed as property and enslaved. There are also scattered family papers, including correspondence between Cornelia Adeline (Stanford) Webb and her mother, Mary (Moore) Stanford.
Back to TopFolder 1 |
1767-1806 |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-2096/1 |
Oversize deed, 1787? |
Folder 2 |
1808-1842 |
Folder 3 |
Undated |