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Size | 162 items |
Abstract | Frances Broadfoot Claypoole was a genealogist from New Bern, N.C. The collection is primarily letters written to Claypoole during the 1930s and 1940s requesting data on branches of her family and various other New Bern families. Also included are a few financial and legal papers and letters, 1766-1856, the earlier ones relating to business in Boston, Mass., and the later ones to land ownership and other business in eastern North Carolina. |
Creator | Claypoole, Frances Broadfoot. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, May 2010
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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Frances Broadfoot Claypoole was a genealogist from New Bern, N.C.
Back to TopThe collection is primarily letters written to Frances Broadfoot Claypoole during the 1930s and 1940s requesting data on branches of her family and various other New Bern, N.C., families. Also included are a few financial and legal papers and letters, 1766-1856, the earlier ones relating to business in Boston, Mass., and the later ones to land ownership and other business in eastern North Carolina.
Back to TopArrangement: Folders 1-3 contain genealogical correspondence and are arranged alphabetically by the name of the family in question.
Folder 1 |
Original finding aid |
Papers, A-E |
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Folder 2 |
Papers, F-R |
Folder 3 |
Papers, S-W |
Folder 4 |
Miscellaneous papers |
Folder 5 |
Family documents, 1766-1856 and undatedIncludes letters and legal documents that belonged to Frances Broadfoot Claypoole's ancestors. |