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

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Price Family Papers, #2850, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Loaned by E. J. Price of Charlotte, N.C., October 1952.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, September 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Estates (Law)--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Family--Tennessee--Social life and customs.
• Fayette County (Tenn.)--History.
• Giles County (Tenn.)--History.
• Mecklenburg County (N.C.)--History.
• Migration, Internal--Southern States--History.
• Price family.
• Price, Isaac Jasper, b. 1819.
• Price, Isaac, 1747-1811.
• Price, Isaac, 1788-1833.
• Steele Creek Church (Mecklenburg County, N.C.)

The Price family and connections resided in Mecklenburg County, N.C., and Fayette and Giles counties, Tenn., where several members of the family moved to settle and where many of them owned land. Notable family members include Isaac Price (1747-1811), Isaac Price Junior (1788-1833), and Isaac Jasper Price (born 1819).

The collection is primarily business, financial, and legal papers, with some family letters, of several generations of the Price family. Papers are mainly those of Isaac Price, Isaac Price Junior, and Isaac Jasper Price and consist of deeds, bills, receipts, notes, land plats and surveys, and tax accounts. Papers concern farming, estate settlement, sales of slaves, lands and property, weaving, whiskey sales, medical services, settlement in Tennessee, the Steele Creek Church in Mecklenburg County, and family matters. Other families mentioned in the papers include Alexander, Berryhill, Boyd, Davidson, Faires, Grier or Greer, Henry, Hampton, Irwin, Know, Neal, Porter, Springs, and Whiteside. Also included is a large family Bible, containing some Price genealogical notes.