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Collection Number: 01472

Collection Title: Le Vert Family Papers, 1760-1888.

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available through the World Wide Web. See the Duplication Policy section for more information.


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

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Size 1.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 990 items)
Abstract Claude Le Vert of Alabama was a French immigrant who served in the American Revolution. The collection consists of correspondence, chiefly 1815-1869, among Claude Le Vert's extended, but closely knit family. Included are Le Vert's three sons: Francis John Le Vert, merchant of Huntsville Ala.; Eugene V. Le Vert (d. 1875), Methodist minister of Millwood, Ala.; and Henry Strachey Le Vert (d. 1859), physician and scientist of Mobile, Ala. Also included are their wives and members of the related Walton, Withers, and Clay families. Topics included mercantile and property transactions, general social and economic conditions, and personal news.
Creator Le Vert (Family : Le Vert, Henry Strachey, 1804-1864)
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Le Vert Family Papers #1472, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Mrs. Edwin R. Dickenson of Tampa, Fla., in 1948, and purchased from Laurence Lingle of Fort Worth, Tex., in 1972.
Additional Descriptive Resources
Original finding aid is filed in folder 1a.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, February 1996

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, March 2010

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

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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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Claude Le Vert of Alabama was a French immigrant who served in the American Revolution.

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The collection consists of correspondence, chiefly 1815-1869, among Claude Le Vert's extended, but closely knit family. Included are Le Vert's three sons: Francis John Le Vert, merchant of Huntsville Ala.; Eugene V. Le Vert (d. 1875), Methodist minister of Millwood, Ala.; and Henry Strachey Le Vert (d. 1859), physician and scientist of Mobile, Ala. Also included are their wives and members of the related Walton, Withers, and Clay families. Topics included mercantile and property transactions, general social and economic conditions, and personal news.

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Contents list

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Folder 1a

Original finding aid

Folder 1

1760-1822

Folder 2

1823-1826

Folder 3

1827-1829

Folder 4

1830-1831

Folder 5

1832-1833

Folder 6

1834-1835

Folder 7

1836-1837

Folder 8

1838-1839

Folder 9

1840-1842

Folder 10

1843-1844

Folder 11

1845

Folder 12

1846

Folder 13

1847

Folder 14

January-April 1848

Folder 15

May-July 1848

Folder 16

August-December 1848

Folder 17

January-April 1849

Folder 18

May-December 1849

Folder 19

January-May 1850

Folder 20

June-December 1850

Folder 21

1851

Folder 22

January-October 1852

Folder 23

1853

Folder 24

January-August 1854

Folder 25

September-December 1854

Folder 26

January-July 1855

Folder 27

August-December 1855

Folder 28

1856

Folder 29

1857

Folder 30

1858-1859

Folder 31

1860-1861

Folder 32

1862-1865

Folder 33

1866-1867

Folder 34

1868-1869

Folder 35

1870-1888; miscellaneous and undated

Folder 36

Undated and illegibly dated

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