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[Identification of item], in the Chatham County (N.C.) Miscellaneous Account Books, #2909, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Volumes 6 and 19 are available on microfilm.

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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, April 2011; Dawne Howard Lucas, May 2021

This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.

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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• Account books.
• Blacksmiths--North Carolina--History.
• Bynum (N.C.)--History.
• Chatham County (N.C.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
• Chatham County (N.C.)--Politics and government.
• Clegg, Isaac.
• Clegg, Thomas J.
• Court records--North Carolina--Chatham County--History--19th century.
• Estates (Law)--North Carolina.
• Farrar, James M.
• Gaines, James R.
• Hooker, J. W.
• Industries--North Carolina--Chatham County--History--19th century.
• Leach, Eliza A.
• Luther, H. C.
• Merchants--North Carolina--History.
• Merony, William.
• Nash, W. A.
• Oak Forest (N.C.)--History.
• Odell, John Milton.
• Patterson, William.
• Pittsboro (N.C.)--History.
• Ragland, Robert.
• Saint Lawrence (N.C.)--History.
• Schools--North Carolina--Chatham County--Records and correspondence.
• Sheriffs--North Carolina--Chatham County--History--19th century.
• Textile industry--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Thompson, George W.
• Williams, Charles Judson.
• Womack and Moore (Chatham County, N. C.)

The collection contains records of unrelated businesses in, and of the local government of Chatham County, N.C., including general merchants' ledgers and daybooks; blacksmiths' accounts; trustees' and executors' accounts; the docket book of a local court, 1825-1848; accounts reported by local officials, 1846- 1868, including the sheriff and superintendents of common schools; and a record of hours worked and wages paid, 1898-1900, at a Bynum textile mill owned by John Milton Odell (born 1831). Among the persons represented are James Gaines, William Merony, Robert Ragland, Charles Judson Williams, H. C. Luther, William Patterson, J. W. Hooker, George W. Thompson, Eliza A. Leach, Isaac Clegg, Thomas J. Clegg, Womack & Moore, James M. Farrar, and W. A. Nash. Among the localities represented are Pittsboro, St. Lawrence, Oak Forest, and Bymun.

• Oversize volumes (SV-2909/4, 12, 13, 17)
• Microfilm (M-2909/1)