James Webb papers, 1725-1918.

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James Webb papers, 1725-1918.

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Primarily business papers relating to banking and cotton manufacturing in North Carolina and mercantile business in North Carolina and Alabama. Papers include personal and business letters as well as financial and legal papers and account books of James Webb and of his family and business associates. Only a few items relate to Webb's medical practice. Many documents relate to Webb's business dealings with Osmond F. Long, Robert Dickins, David Yarbrough, Mary W. Burke, Archibald D. Murphey, and others. There are also many documents, 1815-1846, of Webb as agent of the Bank of Cape Fear at Hillsborough, N.C., and of Webb and Douglass and J. & J.H. Webb, partnerships of James Webb, Jr., and John H. Webb, engaged in the milling and manufacturing of cotton textiles in the 1850s and early 1860s. Also included are Strudwick family papers, chiefly of Samuel Strudwick and his son William F. Strudwick; papers of Henry Neal, mostly related to Tennessee lands; letters and other items addresssed to William Bond, a merchant of North Carolina and Tennessee; and papers of the Burke, Doherty, and Yarbrough families of North Carolina and Alabama.

About 10000 items (14.0 linear ft)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Burke, Thomas, c. 1747-1783

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Thomas Burke (c. 1747 – December 2, 1783) was an Irish physician, lawyer, and statesman who lived in Hillsborough, North Carolina. He represented North Carolina as a delegate to the Continental Congress and was the third Governor of the state. Born in Tiaquin, County Galway, in the Kingdom of Ireland around 1747, he had emigrated to Virginia by 1764, practicing medicine in Accomack County for a number of years. He then studied law and began its practice in Norfolk, Virginia. He became an earl...

Struckwick, William F., b. 1812.

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Neal, Henry, fl. 1795-1826.

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Strudwick, Samuel, d. 1794.

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Bond, W. H. (William Henry), 1915-2005

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Webb, James, 1774-1855

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James Webb (20 February 1774-17 Febraury 1855), physician of Hillsborough, Orange County, N.C., a founder of the North Carolina State Medical Society, Presbyterian educational leader and philanthropist, merchant, and banker. From the description of James Webb papers, 1725-1918. WorldCat record id: 33834201 James Webb (20 February 1774-17 February 1855) was a physician in Hillsborough, N.C., a founder of the North Carolina State Medical Society, Presbyterian educ...

Long, Osmond F.

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Webb, John H. (John Howard), 1962-

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Dickens, Robert Francis

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Murphey, Archibald D. (Archibald De Bow), 1777-1832

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Dougherty family.

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Burke, Mary Williams, 1782-1869.

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Bank of Cape Fear (Wilmington, N.C.). Hillsboro Branch.

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Yarbrough, David

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Webb, James, Jr.

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