Mallett, Charles Peter, 1792-1873

In the early 1820s, Ruffin increasingly corresponded with North Carolina merchants about debt collection and legal business. Notable among these were ... and C.P. Mallett.

includes letters from the family of C. B. Mallett's father, Charles Peter Mallett, in North Carolina and in Bastrop, La., in the 1870s

Charles Peter Mallett; born 14 February 1792, Fayetteville, N.C.; died 23 August 1873; banker, businessman, planter and merchant; first successful producer of spun cotton in Cumberland County, N.C.; he was a major stockholder in the Union Manufacturing Company of Fayetteville, N.C.; in 1853 he left North Carolina for a business venture in New York. When it failed three years later, he returned to North Carolina to open a textbook store in Chapel Hill. He was in Chapel Hill when Union troops were there and left a diary of the Union occupation. After the war he left the state to help his sons reestablish themselves financially on a farm in Bastrop, La., where he died.

Charles Peter Mallett; born 14 February 1792; died 23 August 1873