Langdon, Young, and Meares family papers, 1771-1877 (bulk 1830-1860) [manuscript].

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Langdon, Young, and Meares family papers, 1771-1877 (bulk 1830-1860) [manuscript].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23874882

The collection includes family papers, chiefly 1830-1860, of related Wilmington, N.C., families. The collection includes letters, 1821-1838, from William Belvidere Meares (1787-1841) to his brother-in-law, James Alves of Henderson, Ky., about interests in slaves and a plantation; and letters, 1847-1859, from Paul H. Langdon and Samuel Langdon, U.S. Army officers, and Richard F. Langdon, a U.S. Navy officer, to their mother in Wilmington and to each other, written from Fort Laramie, Wyo., Stockton and Mare Island, Calif., and other places in the West about travels to these places and conditions there. Volumes include a merchant's account book and a diary, 1859-1860, 1862, 1867, of Armand De Rossett Young as a youth on Lyrias Plantation near Wilmington, chiefly concerned with studying and hunting.

About 75 items (0.5 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7122228

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

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Quartermaster, 3rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, C.S.A. From the description of Richard F. Langdon papers, 1863 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 23186393 Richard F. Langdon (born 1828) was a quartermaster in the 3rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America. From the guide to the Richard F. Langdon Papers, ., 1863, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...