Lewis Family of Edgecombe County, N.C., Papers, 1730-1979, 1996-1998

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Lewis Family of Edgecombe County, N.C., Papers, 1730-1979, 1996-1998

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http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/l/Lewis_Family_of_Edgecombe

Abstract

Lewis family members include Exum Lewis (d. ca. 1839), planter, postmaster, and county court justice of Mount Prospect Plantation, Edgecombe County, N.C. Prominent in the papers are Exum Lewis; his son Kenelm Harrison Lewis (1816-1866) and Kenelm's wife, Elizabeth Heritage Bryan Lewis (fl. 1842-1884), and her father, John Heritage Bryan (1798-1870); and Exum's other sons, Richard Henry Lewis (1806-1857), and William Figures Lewis (1819-1910). Included are materials of the related Bryan family. There are also papers of the Bradley family of Mount Prospect, whose relation to the other families is unknown. The collection includes family correspondence, financial and legal papers, and other items of the extended family of Exum Lewis. Most of the papers relate to eastern North Carolina, but there are a number of letters from family members in Alabama and Mississippi. Topics discussed include health, births and deaths, clothing, agriculture, and other routine matters. There are a number of letters from family members and friends that discuss 19th-century student life at the University of North Carolina. Political matters are only mentioned occasionally, and Civil War letters dwell chiefly on concerns of the homefront. There are also records relating to land sales, purchases, and ownership; items relating to plantation business, including the condition of slaves; an 1857 travel diary, perhaps belonging to Ivey Foreman Lewis (1833-1884), describing a trip to Europe; and notes for lectures, 1883-1887, on physiology and hygiene by Richard Henry Lewis (1832-1917). There are also photograph albums and scrapbooks relating to Richard Henry Lewis's grandson McDaniel Lewis (1894-1978) and his first wife Lynnwood Cook Lewis (1896-1964), their daughters Margaret (b. 1920) and Mary Lynn (b. 1926), and their grandchildren.

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About 500 items (1.5 linear feet)

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eng,

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6627665

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Ivey Foreman Lewis, 1833-1884

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Henry R. Bryan

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Levi Ives

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Mary Williams Shepard Bryan

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E. Whitaker

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Jones, Richard T.

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Lewis, Richard H. (Richard Henry), 1850-1926

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William Macnair

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R. H. Speight

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Kenelm Harrison Lewis, 1816-1866

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Exum L. Whitaker

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Richard Henry Lewis, 1832-1917

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J. G. Fort

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John Bryan Lewis

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Fred W. Jones

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Green, James S. (James Stephen), 1817-1870

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James Stephen Green was a Representative from Missouri in U.S. Congress 1847-1851. From the guide to the Letter to J. Y. Mason, Secretary of Navy., June 12, 1848, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kansas Collection) Representative and Senator from Missouri. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Canton, Missouri, to J.S. Black, 1858 July 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270498917 ...

Bryan, Francis T.

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Elizabeth ( Bettie ) Bryan

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These papers are of the Lewis, Battle, Bryan, and Bradley families of Edgecombe, Orange, and Wake counties, N.C. Note that it is often difficult to identify individuals because of the repetition of given names in succeeding generations and among contemporaries in different Lewis lines. There are, for example, at least four Exum Lewises and the same number of Richard Henry Lewises represented in this collection. Exum Lewis (d. circa 1839), son of Col. Exum Lewis (d. 1796)...

Lewis Family of Edgecombe County, N.C., Papers, 1730-1979, 1996-1998

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