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Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 500 items) |
Abstract | Daniel Shine Hill of Franklin County, N.C., was born 14 December 1812. Hill was a planter, businessman, and major in the Confederate Army. In 1835, Hill married Susan Irwin Toole (1815-1878). He was active in business and the temperance movement until his death on 18 August 1873. Papers of Daniel Shine Hill consist chiefly of business correspondence, letters concerning the Sons of the Temperance Society, receipts, and price lists. Hill dealt primarily in dry goods, groceries, hardware, clothing, and textiles, chiefly with merchants from Petersburg, Va., as well as local businessmen and other merchants along the eastern seaboard. He was a very active member of the Sons of the Temperance Society and items concerning this organization appear frequently throughout this collection. There is also some correspondence relating to Louisburg Female College and to the sale of cotton and the status of the cotton market and a few brief items concerning the hiring of freed slaves. The addition of November 2003 includes an account book, 1852-1864, containing details of Hill's financial arrangements with overseers, recipes for a number of folk remedies, and other information. |
Creator | Hill, Daniel Shine, 1812-1873. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English. |
Processed by: John Ansley, February 1997
Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, January 2002
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, January 2010
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Daniel Shine Hill, son of Charles Applewhite and Rebecca Wesley Long Hill, was born in Franklin County, N.C., on 14 December 1812. In 1835, he married Susan Irwin Toole (1815-1878), with whom he had nine children, eight of whom survived to adulthood: Sarah Louisa Hill, born 13 October 1836, married Matthew S. Davis of Louisburg, N.C.; Madeline Elizabeth Hill, born 10 August 1839, married James H. Best of Wayne County, N.C.; Susan Rebecca Hill, born April 1842, died young; Mary Pauline Hill, born September 1845, married John R. Brooks; Florence Monterey Hill, born 24 July 1847, married Garland Jones of Raleigh, N.C., died 9 September 1906; Charles Geraldus Hill, born 1850, physician of Baltimore, Md., died 1927; Isabel Hill, born 1855, married Walter Stark of Oxford, N.C.; Carolina Toole Hill, born 1859, married Harold Churchman Painter of Baltimore, Md.; Daniel Sehon Hill, born 1862, married Florence Hartman.
Daniel Shine Hill lived in Louisburg, N.C., for most of his life. He was a planter, businessman, an active member of the Sons of the Temperance Society, and a major in the Confederate Army. Hill also served on the board of trustees of Louisburg Female College. Hill was active in his business and the temperance movement until his death in 1873.
Back to TopPapers of Daniel Shine Hill consist chiefly of business correspondence, letters concerning the Sons of the Temperance Society, receipts, and price lists. Hill dealt primarily in dry goods, groceries, hardware, clothing, and textiles, chiefly with merchants from Petersburg, Va., as well as local businessmen and other merchants along the eastern seaboard. He was a very active member of the Sons of the Temperance Society and items concerning this organization appear frequently throughout this collection. There is also some correspondence relating to Louisburg Female College and to the sale of cotton and the status of the cotton market and a few brief items concerning the hiring of freed slaves.
The addition of November 2003 contains an account book, 1852-1864, containing details of Hill's financial arrangements with overseers, recipes for a number of folk remedies, and other information. Also included are a receipt and miscellaneous ephemera.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
This collection relates chiefly to Daniel Shine Hill's business. Business correspondence, correspondence concerning the temperance movement, receipts, and price lists make up the bulk of the collection. Hill's business papers pertain mainly to dry goods, groceries, hardware, clothing, and textiles. Hill most frequently dealt with merchants from Petersburg, Va., as well as local businessmen and other merchants along the eastern seaboard (e.g. Louisburg, N.C.; Baltimore, Md.; Norfolk, Va.; Philadelphia, Pa.; and New York, N.Y.). Hill was a very active member of the Sons of the Temperance Society and items concerning this organization appear frequently throughout this collection. There is some additional correspondence relating to Louisburg Female College; the sale of cotton and the status of the cotton market; and a few brief items concerning the hiring of freed slaves.
Folder 1 |
1842 |
Folder 2 |
1845 |
Folder 3 |
1847-1848 |
Folder 4 |
1849 |
Folder 5 |
1850 |
Folder 6 |
1851 |
Folder 7 |
1852 |
Folder 8 |
1853 |
Folder 9 |
January-June 1854 |
Folder 10 |
July-November 1854Includes a printed price list, The Weekly Newsletter and Prices Current, for Wills, Lea and Brownley of Petersburg, Va. |
Folder 11 |
1855Includes a business letter discussing the price of tobacco and a newsletter from the Office of the Grand Worthy Patriarch concerning the Sons of the Temperance Society of South Carolina. |
Folder 12 |
1856 |
Folder 13 |
1857Includes letters, 17 April 1857 and 9 May 1857, that relate to faculty positions at Louisburg Female College. |
Folder 14 |
1858Includes a letter, 5 November 1858, that relates to the presidency of Louisburg Female College. |
Folder 15 |
January-April 1859 |
Folder 16 |
May-November 1859 |
Folder 17 |
January-May 1860Includes a letter from Peebles, Plummer and Co. of Petersburg, Va., to Hill, 31 May 1860, that describes the tobacco market as being "exceedingly dull and sick." |
Folder 18 |
June-December 1860Includes a blank initiation form for the Sons of the Temperance Society and a letter from Jeremy Hilliam of Harrison County, Tex., 30 July 1860, to Hill describing a widespread drought and how it was affecting the corn and cotton crops. |
Folder 19 |
1861Includes letters, 9 October 1861 and 9 December 1861, discussing the high cost of sugar and butter in the area. |
Folder 20 |
1862 |
Folder 21 |
1863 |
Folder 22 |
1864 |
Folder 23 |
1865Includes a letter, 18 September 1865, describing the sale of Hill's cotton with a detailed list of the quantities and prices for which the cotton sold, and a letter, 11 September 1865, from Turner Myrick Jones to Hill concerning the presidency of Louisburg Female College. |
Folder 24 |
January-September 1866Includes a letter, 27 April 1866, discussing the decision of the National Division of the Sons of Temperance to deny appeals to revoke membership of a "negro." |
Folder 25 |
October-December 1866 |
Folder 26 |
1867 |
Folder 27 |
January-July 1868 |
Folder 28 |
August-December 1868Includes a printed price list, Portsmouth Weekly Prices Current, of J.B. Hunter and Co. of Portsmouth, Va. |
Folder 29 |
January-September 1869Includes a printed price list of cart, wagon, and buggy materials for S. March and Co. of Norfolk, Va. |
Folder 30 |
October-December 1869Includes a printed price list, Wholesale Prices Current, from Prince and Hunter, General Commission Merchants of Portsmouth, Va. |
Folder 31 |
January-April 1870Includes a printed list, J. J. Biggs and General Merchant Commission, of price quotations from the cotton market for 27 January 1870; price lists for H. G. Vickery's pork provisions; two Baltimore Price-Current Letter-Sheets, 2 April 1870 and 9 April 1870; and a letter, 21 February 1870, with three items apparently printed by the Temperance Society: "The Rumseller's Proposal of Co-partnership to the Devil," "A Short Temperance Sermon," and "The Curse of Intemperance: A Warning from the Gallows and the Grave." |
Folder 32 |
May-June 1870 |
Folder 33 |
July-December 1870 |
Folder 34 |
1871 |
Folder 35 |
January-July 1872Includes a receipt, 20 July 1872, for tuition and expenses at Louisburg Female College. |
Folder 36 |
August-November 1872 |
Folder 37 |
1873 |
Folder 38 |
1874 |
Folder 39 |
1875 |
Folder 40 |
1876 |
Folder 41 |
1877 |
Folder 42 |
1879 |
Folder 43 |
1890 |
Folder 44 |
1891 |
Folder 45 |
Undated |
An account book, 1852-1864, containing details of Hill's financial arrangements with overseers, recipes for a number of folk remedies, and other information. Also included are a receipt and miscellaneous ephemera.
Folder 46 |
Account book, 1852-1864 |
Folder 47 |
Other items, 1867-1894 and undated |
Arrangement: chronological.
The addition of July 2001 chiefly comprises letters and receipts. The topical content is similar to that of the intial deposit. This addition also includes notes of the stewards meetings of "Louisburg Station" of the Methodist Church, 1865-1867, and a copy of Daniel Shine Hill's will, 1873. There are several pieces of correspondence between Hill's wife, Susan Irwin Toole, and her daughter, Pauline Hill Brooks; these letter were written after Daniel Shine Hill's death.
Folder 48 |
1852-1874 and undated |