Cobb and Whitfield family papers, 1736-1925.

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Cobb and Whitfield family papers, 1736-1925.

Resource Link

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23943847

Abstract

18th- and early 19th-century Cobb and Whitfield family deeds, land grants, and legal agreements from eastern North Carolina, especially Wayne, Craven, and Duplin counties. Also included is family correspondence, after 1837, of James Bryan Whitfield, including two letters, 1840, from United States Senator Robert Strange regarding the admission of Florida to the United States as a slave state.

Extent

About 120 items.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7123070

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Related Entities

There are 4 Entities related to this resource.

Cobb family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6997h7q (family)

Whitfield family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6106chp (family)

Strange, Robert, 1796-1854

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60864w5 (person)

Senator from North Carolina. From the description of Letters : Washington, D.C., to the Secretary of the Navy, 1839-1840. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28885741 Robert Strange was a United States senator from North Carolina from 1836 to 1840. From the guide to the Robert Strange Papers, ., 1832, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...