Moore, Blount, and Cowper family papers, 1789-1990.

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Moore, Blount, and Cowper family papers, 1789-1990.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38226967

The collection consists of correspondence, legal papers, volumes, pictures, family history, and other materials documenting the Moore, Blount, and Cowper families, as well as the Boddie, Coapman, Gatling, Grimes, Keeble, Ruffin, and Williams families of North Carolina. Nineteenth-century correspondence includes family letters, some mother-to-daughter and father-to-daughter, that offer a glimpse into plantation life, including social news, child-rearing, child mortality, epidemic illness, death during childbirth, courtship, and news about slaves, in antebellum North Carolina. Other 19th-century letters support ending the Civil War and discuss business affairs, agriculture, medicine, slavery, and academics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Of particular note are copies of letters exchanged by B.F. Moore and Governor W.W. Holden in 1866 that discuss an 1863 conversation they had with Governor Zebulon Vance regarding further prosecution of the war. Twentieth-century correspondence consists chiefly of a series of Olivia Blount Cowper Moore letters exchanged with a French soldier during World War I; letters from her friend with a children's clothing enterprise during the 1930s; frequent social correspondence, including invitations and greeting cards (bulk 1960s); and sympathy letters. Other 20th-century correspondence concerns business affairs, the Episcopal Church, genealogy, and potential Communist indoctrination at North Carolina State University. Legal materials consist of bonds, deeds, indentures, and cadastral maps regarding land and slaves, chiefly in Wake County, N.C., and in Alabama. There is also an 1852 list of slaves, where they lived, and from whom they were bought; wills and related estate materials for many family members; and account books, scrapbooks, and other volumes that document estate settlements, family life, women's social life and customs, the Civil War, World War I, arts and cultural entertainment, influenza, the Episcopal Church, and various other subjects. Pictures depict family members and others and are primarily black-and-white photographic prints, some card-mounted, but there also are daguerreotypes, tintypes, and other formats. Family history materials include genealogical correspondence, biographical materials, and a record of slave births, circa 1828-1847. Most slave materials relate to North Carolina, but there are also items about slavery in Alabama and Texas. Also included are family bibles, a history of the Boddie family, blueprints for several family houses, a small amount of financial material, miscellaneous writings by family members and others, a mid-19th-century recipe for a medicinal cure for ague and the fever, Civil War pardons, newspaper clippings and other printed material, and World War II ration coupons and inspection records.

ca. 1300 items (12.0 linear feet)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7401146

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Coapman family.

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Keeble family.

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Moore, Bartholomew Figures, 1838-1890.

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Cowper family.

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Grimes, Lucy Olivia Blount, 1799-1854.

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Moore, Bartholomew Figures, d. 1985.

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Ruffin family.

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Cowper, Pulaski

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Grimes, Bryan, 1793-1860.

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Williams family.

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Holden, W. W. (William Woods), 1818-1892

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Journalist and governor of North Carolina, from Raleigh (Wake Co.), N.C. From the description of Papers, 1841-1929. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19642870 W. W. Holden served as provisional governor of North Carolina in 1868 and as governor from 1868 to 1870. From the description of W. W. Holden correspondence, 1846-1870. WorldCat record id: 23186272 William Woods Holden was born in Hillsborough, N.C., in 1818. He served as provisional g...

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...

Moore, Van Boddie, 1855-1917.

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North Carolina State University

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Currently, there are 24 University Standing Committees. Members of each of the University Standing Committees are appointed by the chancellor at the beginning of each academic year. The Committee on Committees provides the chancellor with recommendations concerning the composition and charge for each committee, its chair, and its faculty, staff, and student members. These recommendations are in part based on voluntary expressed preferences, on a general principle of rotation, and, whenever appro...

Boddie family.

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Blount family.

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Grimes family.

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Gatling family.

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Moore, B. F. (Bartholomew Figures), 1801-1878

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Capehart, Lucy Catherine Moore Henry, 1839-1908.

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Cowper, Mary Blount Grimes, fl. 1832-1917.

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Moore, James, 1858-1938.

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Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894

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Confederate general; governor of North Carolina, and U.S. senator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Washington], to William F. Vilas, 1888 May 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270574072 Confederate Army officer, governor of North Carolina, and U.S. senator from North Carolina. From the description of Papers, 1857-1893. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20460648 Zebulon Baird Vance, a native of Buncombe County, N.C., was go...

Moore, Olivia Blount Cowper, d. 1992.

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Moore family.

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