Richard Stanford Papers, 1767-1842

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Summary

Creator:
Stanford, Richard, 1767-1816.
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.

Extent:
76 items
Language:
Materials in English
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Background

Scope and content:

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.

Acquisition information:

Received before 1940.

Processing information:

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.

Sensitive materials statement:

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Access and use

Restrictions to access:

No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to use:

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], in the Richard Stanford Papers #2096-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of this collection:
Louis Round Wilson Library
200 South Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27515
Contact:
(919) 962-3765
wilsonlibrary@unc.edu