Stephen D. Heard papers, 1758-1889 (bulk 1840-1874) [manuscript].

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Heard, Stephen D., 1807-1875. Stephen D. Heard papers, 1758-1889 (bulk 1840-1874) [manuscript].

Stephen D. Heard papers, 1758-1889 (bulk 1840-1874) [manuscript].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27190210

Correspondence and financial and legal materials, chiefly 1840-1864, concern the successive firms in which Heard was involved. Business materials show extensive commercial connections with local planters and small town merchants, as well as with merchants in Savannah, Charleston, and New York. Letters and other items document the impact of the Civil War on Heard's business. After the Civil War, papers doucument the development of crop lien arrangements with local farmers. Volumes include account books, shipping records, bank books, and letterpress copies of correspondence. The collection also contains some family materials, including correspondence, diaries, recipe and remedy books, and household account books. There are also materials relating to the Platt family, including the courtship and honeymoon of Richard Willis Heard and Anna Platt and a furniture business operated in Augusta by Anna's father, Charles Platt. There is also a volume with names and dates of birth for several generations of slaves.

2600 items (8.5 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill