Annie Blackwell Thorne papers, 1769-1965 [manuscript].

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Annie Blackwell Thorne papers, 1769-1965 [manuscript].

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Papers collected or created by Annie Blackwell Thorne (born 1878) include correspondence, legal and financial materials, genealogical papers, and other items of the Alston, Harriss, Kearny, Thorne, and related families, chiefly of Warren and Halifax counties, N.C. Also included is Thorne family material largely from Saint Martin Parish, La. Correspondence pertains chiefly to personal matters, but also deals with business affairs. Included are two letters, 1831, from Thomas Whitmell Harriss (1810-1890) describing his religious conversion while he was a student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill; a few letters relating to the Civil War in Virginia and Louisiana; and letters, 1890s, to Annie's sister, Tempe Williams Thorne (born 1874), from family members and friends. Financial items include slave bills of sale and materials concerning tobacco sales in the 1850s. Legal materials include items, 1866-1869, relating to cases handled by John Davis Thorne (1834-1900), justice of the peace in Saint Martin Parish, La.

About 700 items (1.0 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Alston family.

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Thorne, Tempe Williams, b. 1874.

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Thorne family.

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Harriss, Thomas Whitmell, 1810-1890.

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Thorne, Annie Blackwell, b. 1878.

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Materials in this collection were collected by Annie Blackwell Thorne (born 1878), probably in cooperation with her sister Tempe Williams Thorne (born 1874). The intertwining of the families represented in these papers is well documented in the genealogical materials found in Series 4. The activities of members of the Alston, Harriss, Kearny, Thorne, and related families largely took place in and around Warren and Halifax counties, N.C. Three Thorne family me...

Carney family.

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Thorne, John Davis, 1834-1900.

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Harris family.

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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...