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Preferred Citation

James Cunningham Letter #5152-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance

Purchased from Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC, of Philadelphia, Pa., in March 2004 (Acc. 99750).

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• Blount County (Tenn.)--History.
• Cunningham, James, fl. 1797.
• Family--Tennessee--Social life and customs.
• Real property--Tennessee--History--18th century.
• Tennessee--Church history.

James Cunningham (fl. 1797) lived in Blount County, Tenn., with his wife and children and is later believed to have moved to Knox County, Tenn.

The collection consists of one letter, 25 January 1797, from James Cunningham (fl. 1797) of Blount County, Tenn., to his uncle Robert Cunningham and family in Pennsylvania. The letter contains updates on the health, marital, and financial situations of various family members, as well as physical descriptions of Blount County and of land James Cunningham had purchased in Knox County, Tenn., where he intended to relocate. Also included are some comments on the decision of three local church members, denomination unclear, to form another church after quarrelling over a newly written creed.