Burwell family papers, 1745-1997 [manuscript].

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Burwell family papers, 1745-1997 [manuscript].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22485882

The collection includes personal, business, financial, and legal papers of the Burwell family, including items concerning growing and selling tobacco, cotton, and other crops; slave purchases, sales, and births; runaway slaves; plantation management by Lucy Crawley Burwell in the 1820s; gold-mining in Burke County, N.C.; horsebreeding; civilian conditions during the Civil War and William Henry Burwell's purchase of a substitute to take his place in the Confederate army; taxes, farm, and household expenses; William Armistead Burwell's tenure as chair of the Board of Superintendents of the Common Schools of Vance County, N.C.; estate settlements; the genealogy of the Burwell family; and records relating to the Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church and to a black school in Vance County, N.C., in the 1880s. Also included is an album of photographs taken and developed by Fannie Brodie Burwell, a young woman in Wilson, N.C., before her marriage in 1907. Papers of the Williams family include letters regarding the establishment of local academies in North Carolina and letters from students at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., in the 1810s and 1830s. There are also two letters from Patrick Henry (1736-1799) about selling beef and slaves.

About 3000 items (6.5 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7051968

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Burwell, William Henry, 1835-1917.

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Burwell, Lewis D., 1813-1874.

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Burwell family.

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Members of the Burwell family lived in Warren, Vance, and Granville counties, N.C., and Mecklenburg County, Va., and members of the Williams family lived in Warren County, N.C. Prominent Burwell family members were Armistead (d. 1819), Lewis (fl.1792-1848), and Spotswood (1785-1855), all tobacco and cotton farmers in Mecklenburg County, Va.; Spotwood's children, William Armistead (1809-1887), tobacco and cotton farmer of North Carolina, Lewis D.(1813-1874), Blair (1815-1848), Armistead Ravenscro...