Mary Ruffin Smith Papers, . 1750-1904

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Mary Ruffin Smith Papers, . 1750-1904

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Mary Ruffin Smith of Chapel Hill, N.C., was a benefactress of the University of North Carolina. The collection includes papers of Mary Ruffin Smith and other members of the Smith family of Orange County, N.C. Papers consist of scattered correspondence of Mary Ruffin Smith, chiefly in the 1880s, concerning her financial affairs, her loans and gift of land to the University of North Carolina, and social notes exchanged with other residents of Chapel Hill, N.C., including William Mercer Green, Cornelia Phillips Spencer, Kemp P. Battle, and other members of the Battle family. Included also are deeds for military bounty lands in Illinois and lands in Orange county, Chatham county, and Randolph county, N.C.; records, 1838-1850, of Mary's brother, Dr. Francis J. Smith (1816-1877), a physician in Hillsborough, N.C., showing patients' medical treatment and charges; business letters, 1850-1854, to lawyers William Stedman and Sidney Smith of Pittsboro and Chapel Hill, N.C., from lawyers elsewhere concerning the collection of debts; and assorted other papers, including tenant farmers' accounts, 1870s-1890s, of Mary R. Smith and of W. C. Cole, who purchased the Smith lands after her death.

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

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

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Smith, Mary Ruffin, d. 1885,

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Mary Ruffin Smith (died 1885) of Chapel Hill, N.C., was a benefactress of the University of North Carolina; daughter of James S. Smith, a physician, state legislator, and United States congressman; and sister to Sidney Smith (1805-1856) and Francis J. Smith (1816-1877), a physician of Hillsborough, N.C. From the guide to the Mary Ruffin Smith Papers, ., 1750-1904, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...