Strudwick family papers, 1728-1831 (bulk 1771-1792) [manuscript].

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Strudwick family. Strudwick family papers, 1728-1831 (bulk 1771-1792) [manuscript].

Strudwick family papers, 1728-1831 (bulk 1771-1792) [manuscript].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31693183

The collection includes business and legal papers of Samuel Strudwick (d. 1794), who lived near Wilmington, N.C.; his son William F. Strudwick (d. 1812), a Federalist member of Congress, 1796-1797; their wives, who were both named Martha; and other members of the Strudwick family of England and the Cape Fear River Valley of North Carolina. Much of the collection consists of deeds, indentures, and other papers relating to land and estate transactions, as well as slave inventories and a few family letters. Also included are letters to Samuel Strudwick from relatives and friends in England, from agents in London about property he owned there, and from merchants in Wilmington about the sale of tobacco and the purchase of articles, chiefly 1771-1792. There are also materials relating to the bankruptcy settlement, ca. 1761, with George Burrington, son of North Carolina Royal Governor George Burrington, by which the Strudwicks secured most of their considerable land holdings in North Carolina, including property in what are now New Hanover, Orange, and Alamance counties.

About 150 items (0.5 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill