Jones and Patterson family papers, 1777-1933 (bulk 1800-1880).

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Jones and Patterson family papers, 1777-1933 (bulk 1800-1880).

Personal, business, and political papers, chiefly 1800-1880, of the Patterson, Jones, and related families. Volumes include account books from 1796 of merchandising, lumbering, and lands of General Edmund Jones; mercantile account books and a variety of other business records, 1830-1870, of Samuel Finley Patterson; account books, before and after the Civil War, of Rufus Lenoir Patterson, including records of a textile mill in Salem, 1855-1866, of merchandising and personal business, and of dealings with slaves, and with African American laborers and servants after the Civil War. Personal account books; a diary, 1887-1894; a notebook of political speeches, 1890, of Samuel Legerwood Patterson; and other family records including a law student's diary at Yale, 1840. Correspondence, chiefly 1833-1880, concerns a wide variety of family and business matters of the Pattersons and of other prominent persons to whom they were related, and their political activity throughout the nineteenth century, including many state and local offices they held. There are a few papers of Lindsay Patterson and of his wife Lucy (Patterson) Patterson.

ca. 6,500 items (13.0 linear feet)

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Jones, Edmund, 1771-1844.

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Patterson, Samuel Legerwood, 1850-1908.

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Jones family.

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Yale College (1718-1887)

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The Linonian Literary Society was founded in 1753. All undergraduates were allowed to be members of the Linonian Society. The club provided students with a forum to debate, stage plays, and deliver poems, essays, and orations. The society disbanded in 1868. From the guide to the Linonian Society, Yale College, records, 1753-1870, (Manuscripts and Archives) ...

Patterson family.

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Patterson, Samuel Finley, 1799-1874

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Farmer, railroad official, and state legislator, of Winston-Salem, N.C. From the description of Papers, 1792-1939. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20019670 ...

Patterson, Rufus Lenoir, 1830-1879

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Patterson, Lindsay, 1858-1922

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Patterson, Lucy Bramlette Patterson.

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