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Size | 100 items |
Abstract | The collection includes accounts and business papers of Stephen Moore of New York, who moved to North Carolina during the Revolution, and of his son, PHillips (b. 1771), and grandsons Stephen and William, merchants in Hillsborough, N.C. Included are occasional letters from Stephen (1734-1799) to his father, Phillips, a New York City merchant, documenting their business affairs. Volumes include one shipping account book, New York City, 1767-1770; eighteen account books, 1781-1827, for farming operations, sales, and miscellany, at Mount Tirzah plantation in Person County, N.C.; thirteen account books, 1831-1867, of a general merchant at Hillsborough; and letters from William Moore to his father. |
Creator | Moore, Stephen, 1734-1799. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Tim West, August 1992
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
Updated by: Dawne Howard Lucas, December 2021
This collection was rehoused under the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.
Updated because of addition, January 2019
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The collection includes accounts and business papers of Stephen Moore of New York, who moved to North Carolina during the Revolution, and of his son, PHillips (b. 1771), and grandsons Stephen and William, merchants in Hillsborough, N.C. Included are occasional letters from Stephen (1734-1799) to his father, Phillips, a New York City merchant, documenting their business affairs. Volumes include one shipping account book, New York City, 1767-1770; eighteen account books, 1781-1827, for farming operations, sales, and miscellany, at Mount Tirzah plantation in Person County, N.C.; thirteen account books, 1831-1867, of a general merchant at Hillsborough; and letters from William Moore to his father.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
Almost all letters to Phillips Moore (b. 1771) from his sons Stephen (b. circa 1801) and William in Hillsborough, N.C., and from other relatives. Most letters concern family property or finances, and several give news of the health and whereabouts of family members. There is one letter, 1806, from Richard Stanford (1767-1816), husband of Phillips Moore's sister, Mary, about congressional activities in Washington and family matters. Two letters, 1828 and 1829, from Green County, Ala., mention North Carolinians who had moved there, and one of these discusses religious experiences of family members in Alabama. An 1829 letter discusses how best to sell a runaway slave who recently had been captured. An undated letter from Judge William Norwood (1767-1842) discusses the legality of purchasing property from an estate.
Folder 1 |
1805-1829 |
Folder 2 |
1830-1851 and undated |
Arrangement: chronological.
Chiefly miscellaneous bills and receipts, tax assessments and receipts (some including slave lists), records of accounts, and survey maps of Phillips Moore of Person County and of Stephen Moore of Orange County. Exceptional items include an indenture, 1769, from Orange County (Thomas Gibson to William Tapp); a document, 1790, offering a rationale for the purchase of Stephen Moore's West Point, N.Y., property by the U.S. Government; three lists, 1782-1792, of tobacco transactions, mostly in North Carolina and Virginia; a permit, 1809, for a slave to sell cotton; maps and other records of land in the estate of William Cocke, presumably of Person County; and a contract and accounts, 1819-1820, between Phillips Moore and two overseers, including records of work performance.
Folder 3A |
1769-1794 |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-2205/1 |
Treasury Department document, 3 June 1790 |
Folder 3B |
1800-1819 |
Folder 3C |
1820-1829 |
Folder 3D |
1830-1869 |
Folder 4 |
Undated |
Arrangement: chronological.
Miscellaneous items including a brief, unascribed address, probably 1797, calling for changes in the federal and/or state constitution; a one-page report of the meeting of the " Virginia Conference of Methodist Preachers" at Raleigh, N.C., March 1828; two lists of voters and results, 1835, from the Bumpass Precinct, presumably in Person County; a recipe for sunflower oil; and instructions for cultivating mangel-wurzel.
Folder 5 |
Other Loose Papers |
Chiefly farm and household account books of Phillips Moore and other members of the Moore family at Mt. Tirzah Plantation in Person County, N.C. Also included is a ledger from Quebec (City), presumably kept by Stephen Moore (1734-1799), personal accounts of this Stephen Moore and his estate, a small volume of Warrenton, N.C., general merchandise accounts, a volume of shipping accounts from Chestertown, Md., and notes about the construction of grist mills.
Ledgers and daybooks of S. #38; W. Moore, a general store in Hillsborough, N.C., operated by Stephen Moore (b. 1801), with his uncle, William Cain, or his brother, William, until 1836 and on his own afterward, and of a "shoe shop," also operated by Stephen Moore in Hillsborough.
Acquisitions Information: Acc. 101902.
Image Folder PF-02205/1 |
Portrait of Stephen Moore |