Ker family papers, 1776-1996 [manuscript].

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Ker family papers, 1776-1996 [manuscript].

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Topics discussed in materials, 1800-1960s, include medicine; Louisiana and Mississippi plantation affairs; slavery; Presbyterian church activities; local, state, and national politics, including the conduct of the 1813-1814 Creek War and the War of 1812 (note an 1814 Andrew Jackson letter about the defense of Louisiana); men's and women's education, chiefly at the Natchez Institute and Oakland College, Miss.; and travel, especially Mary Susan Ker's 1886 European tour. There are also materials relating to Mary Susan's and Catharine Dunbar Brown's teaching at the Natchez Institute; to Tillie Dunbar's bank clerking in Fayette, Miss.; and to Catharine's Ye Olde Booke Shoppe in Natchez. Also included are estate papers, bills and receipts, property inventories, wills and indentures, slave lists, account books, and other items documenting antebellum plantation and land holdings and postwar plantation and personal finances. There are also a few diaries, clippings, 19th- and early 20th-century pedagogical materials, and family photographs. Other papers include scattered records of John Ker's work with the American Colonization Society and extensive records of the Natchez branches of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1924-1968, and the Colonial Dames of America, 1941-1967, in which both Tillie and Catharine were active, and letters and Mardi Gras invitations to Sue Percy Ker Hyams and other materials related to her.

8000 items (28.5 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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