Hubard family papers, 1741-1907.

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Hubard family. Hubard family papers, 1741-1907.

Hubard family papers, 1741-1907.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23030913

The collection includes business and personal papers of Edmund Wilcox Hubard (1806-1878), planter, militia officer, state legislator, and U.S. Representative from Virginia, and of his family in Virginia, Washington, D.C., North Carolina, Tennessee, and Florida, consisting of diaries, account books, plantation accounts, slave lists, notebooks, and physicians' daybooks. Includes papers relating to the cultivation of tobacco, cotton, and wheat, as well as other phases of plantation life, the legal and medical professions, railroads, colleges, schools, teachers, churches, welfare organizations, agricultural societies, newspapers, publications by private individuals, and social life in North Carolina and Virginia. Also includes papers concerning the French and Indian War, the Revolution, the Civil War, and offices and affairs of the Virginia militia. Families mentioned in the papers include Bolling, Eppes, Jefferson, Jones (Willie), Littlejohn, Mosely, Page, Randolph, Thurston, Thweatt, Wilcox, and Williamson.

ca. 19000 items (18.5 linear ft.)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill