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Size | 4.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1000 items) |
Abstract | Correspondence between Webb family members from the early 1900s through the 1950s and early twentieth-century love letters compose the majority of papers from the affluent, white family of Hillsborough, N.C. Webb family members represented in the correspondence include James H. Webb, Annie Hudgins Webb, their son James Webb (b. 1904), who was president of the Eno Cotton Mills and later vice president of Cone Mills Corporation, and Margaret Raney Webb. Collection materials also include v-mail and letters from members of the armed services during the Second World War; genealogical and family history files; a scrapbook from the late 1940s and early 1950s pertaining to Eno Cotton Mills and Cone Mills Corporation; materials related to James Webb's political career in the North Carolina state senate in the late 1940s; subject files on Hillsborough, N.C., history; and an audio cassette tape of local historian Jean Anderson speaking in 1999. Genealogical files contain letters, newspaper clippings, family trees, family histories, copies and transcriptions of historical documents pertaining to related families including the Norwood family and Huske family, and writings by family members. Family history materials include a transcribed 1843 estate document listing people enslaved in Orange County, N.C., by William Norwood (1767-1842) and a reminiscence by an unnamed white female author, who was a child in the late antebellum and Civil War period. In the composition, she perpetuates the southern plantation myth, characterizing her "black Mammy" and other enslaved people her father owned as contented "servants." |
Creator | Webb (Family : Hillsborough, N.C.) |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Summary description was created in October 2017.
Encoded by: Laura Smith, October 2017
Updated: May 2019
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The Webb family of Hillsborough, N.C., is descended from James Webb (1774-1855), a physician from North Carolina's white planter, slave holding class, and his son James Webb, Jr., a Hillsborough merchant. The elder Webb helped to establish the North Carolina State Medical Society in 1799 and attended the University of North Carolina in its first year (1795), becoming a member of the university's debating organization, the Dialectic Society, which he purportedly named.
Back to TopCorrespondence between Webb family members from the early 1900s through the 1950s and early twentieth-century love letters compose the majority of papers from the affluent, white family of Hillsborough, N.C. Webb family members represented in the correspondence include James H. Webb, Annie Hudgins Webb, their son James Webb (b. 1904), who was president of the Eno Cotton Mills and later vice president of Cone Mills Corporation, and Margaret Raney Webb. Collection materials also include v-mail and letters from members of the armed services during the Second World War; genealogical and family history files; a scrapbook from the late 1940s and early 1950s pertaining to Eno Cotton Mills and Cone Mills Corporation; materials related to James Webb's political career in the North Carolina state senate in the late 1940s; subject files on Hillsborough, N.C., history; and an audio cassette tape of local historian Jean Anderson speaking in 1999. Genealogical files contain letters, newspaper clippings, family trees, family histories, copies and transcriptions of historical documents pertaining to related families including the Norwood family and Huske family, and writings by family members. Family history materials include a transcribed 1843 estate document listing people enslaved in Orange County, N.C., by William Norwood (1767-1842) and a reminiscence by an unnamed white female author, who was a child in the late antebellum and Civil War period. In the composition, she perpetuates the southern plantation myth, characterizing her "black Mammy" and other enslaved people her father owned as contented "servants."
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Box 1-2
Box 1Box 2 |
Letters, circa 1890s-1950s |
Box 2-3
Box 2Box 3 |
Materials related to James Webb (b. 1904)Includes biographical information, memorials, newspaper clippings, correspondence, certificates, and items related to the Episcopal Church, his alma mater the University of North Carolina, fraternal organizations, and Webb's tenure in the North Carolina state senate in the late 1940s. |
Oversize Volume SV-5532/1 |
Scrapbook of James Webb (b. 1904), circa 1940s-1950sPertains chiefly to Eno Cotton Mills and Cone Mills Corporation. |
Rolled Item R-5532/1-2
R-5532/1R-5532/2 |
Half-tone images of the North Carolina state senate, 1947 and 1949 |
Box 3 |
Family histories and genealogy |
List of people enslaved by William Norwood (1767-1842)Transcription of estate documents from 1843, including "Negroes Belonging to the Estate of William Norwood Deceased." The list includes the first names, ages, and assigned monetary values of 60 enslaved people. |
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Reminiscence, undated circa early 1900sBy an unnamed white female author who was a child in the late antebellum and Civil War era. In keeping with the Lost Cause and white supremacist framing of slavery prevalent in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century South, she characterized the enslaved people her family owned as contented and loyal servants. |
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Audiocassette C-5532/1 |
Recording of historian Jean Anderson speaking at a "H.S. Meeting," October 1999"H.S" may refer to Hillsborough, N.C.'s historical society. |