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Collection Number: 70117

Collection Title: David Southern Collection on 17th and 18th Century North Carolina Land Grant and Land Ownership, 1990s-2000s

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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
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions.
Restrictions to Use
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Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the David Southern Collection on 17th and 18th Century North Carolina Land Grant and Land Ownership #70117, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Ernest Dollar in January 2022 (Acc. 20220128.2).
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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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.

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Contains 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.

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Contents list

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Box 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

Creeks

Various Creeks, including Bolin Creek and Booker Creek
Box 7

Ellerbe Creek, Duke Homestead, Family Names A-L & M - Z

Family 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

Maps

Contains 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 sources

Contents 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.

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