Cameron family papers, 1757-1978 (bulk 1770-1894).

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Cameron family papers, 1757-1978 (bulk 1770-1894).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48924103

The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, financial and legal documents, and account books. In addition, there are speeches, writings, printed material, pictures, and miscellaneous other types of personal papers. Included is extensive information about Richard Bennehan's store at Stagville, N.C., and the Stagville and Fairntosh plantations, including crop and slave records. Family correspondence details the familial relationships and social behavior of a wealthy planter family, particularly the women. In addition to documentation about Duncan Cameron's legal career, there is also information about the State Bank of North Carolina and the banking industry, the education of the Cameron children at various schools, the development of the University of North Carolina, the state militia, the Episcopal Church, railroads, and state government.

About 33000 items (69.0 linear feet)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7599922

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Bennehan, Richard, 1743-1825.

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Cameron, Duncan, 1777-1853

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State Bank of North Carolina

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Cameron family.

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Cameron family of Orange and Durham counties and Raleigh, N.C. Among antebellum North Carolina's largest landholders and slave holders, the Camerons also owned substantial plantations in Alabama and Mississippi. Prominent family members included Richard Bennehan (1743-1825), merchant; Duncan Cameron (1777-1853), lawyer, judge, banker, and legislator; and Paul C. Cameron (1808-1891), planter, agricultural reformer, and railroad builder. From the description of Cameron family papers, 1...

Cameron, Paul C. (Paul Carrington), 1808-1891

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Paul C. Cameron was born in Stagville, NC. He attended the University of North Carolina from 1823 to 1825. At which point, he entered the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy (forerunner to Norwich University), and graduated in 1828. He then attended Trinity College from 1828 to 1829. Paul Cameron owned extensive plantations in North Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi. He was also active in railroad construction, banking, cotton manufacture and politics. Cameron was a liberal suppor...

Bennehan family.

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Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...