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Size | 15 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 10,000 items) |
Abstract | Contains annotated materials compiled and created by David Southern (1946-2021), a white graphic designer, publisher, editor, and local historian. Materials mostly relate to Southern's research on land grants and early European land ownership in 17th- and 18th-century Orange and Durham counties in North Carolina, including records of early Native American settlements in the region. There are also some materials from surrounding counties, such as Alamance County and Granville County. Southern compiled many of the materials from other research repositories, including the State Archives of North Carolina. |
Creator | Southern, David, 1946-2021. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Rebecca Stubbs, May 2022
Encoded by: Dawne Howard Lucas, May 2022
Updated by: Dawne Howard Lucas and Jessica Venlet, September 2022
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David William Southern (1946-2021) was a white graphic designer, publisher, editor, and local historian. Southern owned Bull City Studios in Durham, N.C., served as the managing editor of the Carlyle Letters Project at Duke University Press, and co-authored the book Miss Mary's Money: Fortune and Misfortune in a North Carolina Plantation Family, 1760-1924.
Back to TopContains annotated materials compiled and created by historian David Southern, mostly relating to his research on land grants and early European land ownership in 17th- and 18th-century Orange and Durham counties in North Carolina, including records of early Native American settlements in the region. There are also some materials from surrounding counties, such as Alamance County and Granville County. Southern compiled many of the materials from other research repositories, including the State Archives of North Carolina.
Back to TopBox 1 |
Little River |
Box 2 |
Orange County |
Box 3 |
Orange County |
Box 4 |
Chapel Hill, Orange County; Granville County; Haw River, Alamance and Guilford County |
Box 5 |
Orange County, Wake County, Chatham County, Bladen County, Halifax County, Johnston County, Flat River Township |
Box 6 |
CreeksVarious Creeks, including Bolin Creek and Booker Creek |
Box 7 |
Ellerbe Creek, Duke Homestead, Family Names A-L & M - ZFamily Names A-L: Barbee, Cuthbert Burton, Carson, Craig, Hastings, Hogan, James, Latta, Link, William Lytle Family Names M-Z: Mark Morgan, Morgan, Patterson, Pratt, Taylor, Turrentine |
Box 8 |
Notebooks |
Oversize Box OB-70117/1 |
MapsContains maps of land grants and ownership in 17th and 18th century North Carolina. Some maps were created by Southern. Other maps were created by A. B. Markham and later annotated by Southern. |
Digital Folder DF-70117/1 |
Transcriptions of 18th century sourcesContents of two 3.5-inch floppy disks. Includes a 1737 survey in the wilderness of the Eno River Valley, a logbook of correspondence, sketches of eastern North Carolina, a document about surveyors, a synopsis of the journal of the 60,000 acre survey, and preliminary notes relevant to the 60,000 acre survey. |