Laurens Hinton papers, 1825-1896 (bulk 1840-1863).

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Laurens Hinton papers, 1825-1896 (bulk 1840-1863).

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Correspondence, business items, and legal papers of Hinton; letters from Hinton's father in Wake County, N.C.; letters from Willis L. Miller at Union Theological Seminary; letters to Jane Constance Miller Hinton, wife of Hinton and daughter of Henry Miller and Isabella Miller, when she was a student at the Hillsboro Female Academy, in Hillsborough, N.C., and while visiting relatives in Virginia; and letters, 1825-1833, from Thomas P. Hunt. Letters deal chiefly with family matters, but touch on cotton prices, the slave trade, Wake County politics, and Broomfield plantation affairs during Reconstruction. The addition of 1974 is a commonplace book by Jane Constance Hinton. The addition of 2003 is Jane Constance Hinton's account of her wartime experience, "The Reminiscences of the Key Basket of a Southern Matron." The account describes her life and duties at Broomfield prior to Laurens Hinton's death in 1864; service rendered by individual slaves and freedmen; and aid given to "Sherman's bummers" by other slaves and freedmen, particularly with respect to the 13 April 1865 raids on the plantation.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Miller, Willis L.

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Hinton family.

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Hinton, Laurens, -1864

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Laurens Hinton was a merchant and planter of Mobile, Ala., and Raleigh, N.C. He married his cousin, Jane Constance Miller (1827-1897), in 1851. The following year they purchased and moved to Broomfield, an 843-acre plantation located three miles south of Raleigh. Laurens died in 1864, leaving a widow and four small children behind. Jane Constance Hinton remained at Broomfield until her death in 1897. From the guide to the Laurens Hinton Papers, 1825-1896, (University of North Carolin...

Hillsboro Female Academy (N.C.)

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Hinton, Jane Constance Miller, 1827-1897.

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Union Theological Seminary in Virginia.

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Hunt, Thomas, 1826-1899

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Thomas Hunt (1826-1899) served in the LDS church in England before joining the saints in Utah. Thomas Hunt was born 15 June 1826 in Denby, Derbyshire, England, to John Hunt and Sarah Bardell. He moved to Claycross at age 21 and married Hannah Moon at the Denby Par Church, Denby, Derby, England, on 27 December 1847. On 23 November 1848 he and his wife were baptized to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Hunt served diligently in the Gospel in his branch in En...