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Abstract | Richard Grist (fl. 1827-1830) presumably owned and operated a large business, probably in general merchandising, provisions, the shipping of cotton and lumber, ginning and bagging, bridge tolls, and credit and note collecting, in Beaufort County, Pitt County, and Craven County, N.C. The collection includes a volume of unitemized accounts and records of this operation. The account records are partly pasted over with scrapbook materials. An incomplete index is included. |
Creator | Grist, Richard, fl. 1827-1830. |
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, January 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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Richard Grist (fl. 1827-1830) owned and operated what was likely a large business, probably in general merchandising, provisions, the shipping of cotton and lumber, ginning and bagging, bridge tolls, and credit and note collecting, in Beaufort, Pitt, and Craven counties, N.C.
Back to TopThe collection includes a volume of unitemized accounts, records of a mercantile operation, presumably operated by Richard Grist. The account records are partly pasted over with scrapbook materials. An incomplete index is included.
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Original finding aid |
See Oversize Volume SV-3859/1 |
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Oversize Volume SV-3859/1 |
Volume 1: Ledger, 1827-1830 |