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[Identification of item], in the The Street Family Papers #5805-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Carol Melton, December 2010 (Acc. 103721).

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Encoded by: Laura Smith, December 2019

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

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• Collecting of accounts.
• Moore County (N.C.)
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Slavery.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• Street family.
• Street, Richard, 1779-1826.
• Street, Richard, 1822-1899.
• Yellow fever.

Richard Barron Street (1779-1826) was a farmer by trade and was married to Anne McQueen (1791-1857), who was the daughter of Scottish immigrant, Murdoch McQueen. Together the pair had six recorded children: Donald, Robert, Murdoch, George, Richard, and Elizabeth Street.

Richard Barron Street (1822-1899) was a quartermaster sergeant, magistrate, planter, and a doctor. Street served with his brother Murdoch in the Civil War with the 26th Regiment, Company H of the Confederate Army. Street enlisted as a sergeant on 3 June 1861 and was promoted to quartermaster sergeant 1 December 1861. He was discharged from duty after August of 1862. Street was married to Elizabeth Dobbin (1826-1858) and together had one son, John Dobbin (1858-1950). After Elizabeth died, Street married Nancy Candace Phillips (1843-1906) in November 1862. The pair had eight recorded children: Charles, Murdoch, Nancy, Louis, Ella, Richard, Anna, and Frank.

This collection chiefly consists of legal and financial items related to estates, debts, and the purchase of sugar, cotton, wool, gun powder and buckshot, tobacco, and other goods. There are also letters to and from Richard Street (1822-1899), including several written during the Civil War from army camps near Kinston, N.C., and Goldsboro, N.C. Of interest is an 1823 letter pertaining to the sale of an unnamed enslaved individual for fifty dollars; the 1877 will of Joseph D. Wilcox (also spelled Willcox) of Lafayette County, Miss.; and a receipt from the sale of tobacco from the Cameron family of North Carolina. Also included are cartes-de-visite portraits of John Willcox and R.P. Willcox.

• Photographs (PF-05805/1)