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Size | 1 foot of linear shelf space (approximately 200 items) |
Abstract | Legal and financial documents related to the white Reed family of Cabarrus County, N.C., comprise the majority of the collection. Documents include receipts, indentures, deeds, accounts, lists of property, and court summons and pertain chiefly to estates, land sales, and taxes. Family members represented in the collection materials include Arthur Reed, George Reed, Henry Reed, and George Allen Reed. The collection also contains scattered family and business correspondence and a small number of Civil War era documents, some pertaining to a Unionist in the Reed family. Of interest are a notebook dated 1855 with detailed instructions for a musical performance and a document dated 1850 certifying Henry Reed (born circa 1820) to treat patients with stammers and other speech disorders using the signatory Allen Reed's "rules and presentation for curing" them. |
Creator | Reed (Family : Cabarrus County, N.C.) |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
The summary description was created in October 2017.
Encoded by: Laura Smith, October 2017
Processed by: Amy Morgan, June 2019
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The Reed (other spellings include Reid) family was established in North Carolina by John Reed (1757-1845) of Germany, who came to America in the 1770s as a Hessian soldier to fight for the British in the American Revolutionary War. In 1799, his son Conrad Reed uncovered a large gold nugget near the town of Midland, N.C., which led to the founding of the Reed Gold Mine, now a state historic site in Cabarrus County, N.C.
Back to TopLegal and financial documents related to the white Reed family of Cabarrus County, N.C., comprise the majority of the collection. Documents include receipts, indentures, deeds, accounts, lists of property, and court summons and pertain chiefly to estates, land sales, and taxes. Family members represented in the collection materials include Arthur Reed, George Reed, Henry Reed, and George Allen Reed. The collection also contains scattered family and business correspondence and a small number of Civil War era documents, some pertaining to a Unionist in the Reed family. Of interest are a notebook dated 1855 with detailed instructions for a musical performance and a document dated 1850 certifying Henry Reed (born circa 1820) to treat patients with stammers and other speech disorders using the signatory Allen Reed's "rules and presentation for curing" them.
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