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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Nathaniel Chesley Daniel Papers #4251-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Nat V. Daniel of Elmira, New York, in November 1980.

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Processed by: Faye Phillips, June 1981, Suzanne Ruffing, August 1996

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Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, January 2010

This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• African Americans--Photographs.
• Daniel, Anne H. Bullock, 1804-1883.
• Daniel, Nathaniel Chesley, 1797-1853.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Freedmen--Photographs.
• Granville County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Plantation life--North Carolina--Granville County.
• Tranquility Plantation (Granville County, N.C.)

Nathaniel Chesley Daniel, son of James Chesley and Ann Venable Daniel, was born 20 July 1797 and died 9 May 1853. On 24 January 1828, he married Anne H. Bullock, daughter of James Bullock of Warren County, N.C. Anne was born 29 September 1804 and died 25 March 1833. The Daniels had eleven children, of whom the eldest was Nathaniel Beverly Daniel, born 1842.

The Daniels lived at "Tranquility" in Granville County, N.C., a plantation of several hundred acres. From 1830 to 1837, Daniel and his brother, James B. Daniel, Jr., owned general stores in Waterloo, N.C., and Clarkesville, Va.

Chiefly correspondence among members of the Daniel family. Many of the letters are from or to Anne H. Bullock Daniel and her children. Others are to or from brothers and cousins. None of the letters were written by Nathaniel C. Daniel. Most letters are about daily events in the lives of family members. Of interest is an 1856 letter informing Anne that she had inherited a slave. Only one letter is from the Civil War period

Also included are legal and financial papers, writings, and biographical information. The legal and financial material consists of a legal brief regarding a suit by James B. Daniel, Jr., 1860; an 1864 tax statement of account; a copy of the 1876 will of James Daniel; a 1753 land indenture from Granville County, N.C. (OP-4251/1); and tax receipts. The writings include a history of Holland Mill Chapel near Gastonia, N.C., and material relating to Daniel family history.

There are also two volumes, an account book, 1848-1856, of Nathaniel C. Daniel (14 pp.) and an account book, 1854-1862, of Anne H. Daniel (107 pp.), with records of purchases made by the family. Also included are two copies of a photograph (P-4251/1-2) of three former Daniel and Bullock family slaves--Jim, Rose, and Lawson.

• Oversize paper folder (OPF-4251/1)
• Images (P-4251/1-2)