Benjamin C. Yancey papers, 1800-1931 (bulk 1835-1891).

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Benjamin C. Yancey papers, 1800-1931 (bulk 1835-1891).

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Yancey's papers, primarily 1835-1891, include extensive correspondence with public figures and with a large and widespread family connection, which included the Yancey, Bird, Cunningham, Hamilton, Phinizy, and Patterson families; papers relating to plantations in Cherokee County, Ala., and Floyd County, Ga., including correspondence with overseers; papers relating to law practice and politics, especially in the 1840s and 1850s in Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina; correspondence and letterpress copy book in Argentina, 1858-1859, including letters to Secretary of State Lewis Cass; and papers relating to military service and varied business, industrial, and agricultural pursuits after the war. Also included are volumes of miscellaneous accounts, 1850-1885, and a woman's diary, 1850, of a seven-week trip from Georgia to New York and New England.

ca. 4800 items (7.0 linear feet)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7139245

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866

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Yancey, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Cudworth), 1817-1891

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