Skinner family papers, 1705-1900.

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Skinner family papers, 1705-1900.

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Chiefly family correspondence. Women wrote about their education and reading, courtship and marriage, pregnancy and child care, household and social activities, and political opinions, especially about the War of 1812. Of special interest are letters documenting the relationship of brother and sister, Tristrim Skinner and Penelope Skinner Warren, and Penelope's 1840 pregnancy. Other letters describe trips to spas in North Carolina and elsewhere. Letters written by school-aged children show differences between male and female education. Letters of several male family members document their experiences at the College of William and Mary and at the University of North Carolina, 1813-1814. Correspondence, journals, and other papers document plantation management, including information about slaves, work routines, crops, and agricultural reform. Other subjects include North Carolina and Whig Party politics; life in the Confederate Army; life on the Confederate homefront; and social conditions in Edenton and Hillsborough, N.C., and Williamsburg and Norfolk, Va.

About 800 items (1.0 linear ft.)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7111828

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Skinner, Tristrim Lowther, 1820-1862

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Confederate states of America. Army

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The Savannah Ordnance Depot, Savannah, Georgia, was organized as a field depot during the Civil War. In April 1864, it became the Savannah Arsenal under the supervision of the Chief of Ordnance. From the description of Savannah Ordnance Depot employment roll, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477938 The Confederate States of America Army may have created the position of Purchasing Commissary of Subsistence to oversee the distribution of food and other supplies to the Co...

College of William and Mary.

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Warren, Penelope Skinner, 1824-1841.

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Skinner family.

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Family members included Maria Lowther Skinner (1786-1824), her husband, Joseph Blount Skinner (1781-1851), and their children--Tristrim Lowther Skinner (1820-1862) and Penelope Skinner Warren (1824-1841). Joseph Blount Skinner of Edenton, N.C., owned several plantations in Bertie, Perquimans, and Chowan counties and served in the North Carolina House of Commons in 1807 and 1814. After 1840, Tristrim Lowther Skinner managed his father's plantations; served in the N.C. general assembly, 1846-1848;...

Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 1st

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Whig Party (N.C.)

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