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Collection Number: 00488

Collection Title: Julian Smith Mann Papers, 1763-1928 (bulk 1800-1895).

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This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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Size 2.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 200 items)
Abstract Julian Smith Mann was a planter, state legislator, and lawyer of Middleton, Hyde County, N.C., and of New Bern, N.C. The collection includes scattered legal and business papers, chiefly 1800-1895, of Julian Smith Mann and his ancestors. Included are legal and business correspondence; a school census, 1849; tax lists for Currituck, Fairfield, and Lake Landing townships in Hyde County, N.C.; weekly market reports on prices of agricultural products, 1873-1874; accounts with laborers, 1858; general merchandise daybooks, 1832-1833 and 1876; estate settlement records; miscellaneous accounts, 1811-1821 and 1833-1836; and other papers.
Creator Mann, Julian Smith, 1863-1946.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
This collection contains additional materials that are not available for immediate or same day access. Please contact Research and Instructional Service staff at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu to discuss options for consulting these materials.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
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 Julian Smith Mann Papers, #488, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Julian Smith Mann of Hyde County, N.C., prior to 1940 and from Julian Mann, III., in April 2017 (Acc. 103050).
Additional Descriptive Resources
A copy of the original finding aid for this collection 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: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, May 2009

Updated by: Laura Hart, April 2017

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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Julian Smith Mann (1863-1946) was a planter, state legislator, and lawyer of Middleton, Hyde County, N.C., and of New Bern, N.C. He was a graduate of the University of North Carolina, 1885, and thereafter studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1887.

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The collection includes scattered legal and business papers, chiefly 1800-1895, of Julian Smith Mann and his ancestors. Included are legal and business correspondence; a school census, 1849; tax lists for Currituck, Fairfield, and Lake Landing townships in Hyde County, N.C.; weekly market reports on prices of agricultural products, 1873-1874; accounts with laborers, 1858; general merchandise daybooks, 1832-1833 and 1876; estate settlement records; miscellaneous accounts, 1811-1821 and 1833-1836; a volume summarizing Virginia law; and other papers. Other persons mentioned in the papers include J. W. Gibbs, Jones Boomer, the McCloud family, A. Tunnell, and E. L. Mann.

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Contents list

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Folder 1a

Original finding aid

Folder 1

1763-1799

Folder 2

1801-1816

Folder 3

1817-1826

Folder 4

1827-1833

Folder 5

1834-1836

Folder 6

1837-1839

Folder 7

1840-1843

Folder 8

1844-1846

Folder 9

1847-1849

Folder 10

1850-1856

Folder 11

1857-1859

Folder 12

1860-1866

Folder 13

1867-1869

Folder 14

1870-1872

Folder 15-16

Folder 15

Folder 16

1873-1874

Folder 17

1875

Folder 18

1876-1877

Folder 19

1878-1879

Folder 20

1881-1885

Folder 21

1886-1889

Folder 22

1890-1893

Folder 23

1894-1928

Folder 24a

Fragments

Folder 24b

Undated

Folder 25

Bills and receipts, 1794-1820

Folder 26

Bills and receipts, 1821-1829

Folder 27

Bills and receipts, 1830-1832

Folder 28

Bills and receipts, 1833-1836

Folder 29

Bills and receipts, 1837-1838

Folder 30

Bills and receipts, 1839-1841

Folder 31

Bills and receipts, 1842-1848

Folder 32

Bills and receipts, 1849-1859

Folder 33

Bills and receipts, 1860-1866

Folder 34

Bills and receipts, 1867-1875

Folder 35

Bills and receipts, 1876-1885

Folder 36

Bills and receipts, 1886-1889

Folder 37

Bills and receipts, 1890-1908

Folder 38

Miscellaneous items and printed material

Folder 39

Volume 1: Account book, miscellaneous, 1811-1821

Volume 2: Account book, miscellaneous, 1833-1836

Folder 40

Volume 3: Day book, general merchandise, 1832-1833

Folder 41

Volume 4: Account book, J. W. Gibbs, labor, 1858

Volume 5: Account book, J. W. Gibbs, labor, undated

Folder 42

Volume 6: Daybook, J. W. Gibbs, merchandise and estate settlement, 1876

Folder 43

Volume 7: Account book, Jones Boomer and McCloud family, 1854-1872

Folder 44

Volume 8: Account book, A. B. Tunnell and Brooks estate, 1859-1866

Folder 45

Volume 9: Account book, E. L. Mann, 1862-1868

Volume 10: Tax lists, Currituck, Fairfield, and Lake Landing townships, 1866-1890

Folder 46

Volume 11: Tax lists, 1866-1890

Folder 47

Volume 12: "Synopsis of the practice of law, in and out of courts in Virginia," undated

Folder 48

Letters, 1909-1913

Acquisitions information: Addition of April 2017 (Acc. 103050).

Three letters dated between 1909 and 1911 are from T.M. Arrington of Rocky Mount, N.C., to Julian Smith Mann. Topics include a planned visit to see Mann, news of family members including a son at Wake Forest University, vegetable gardens, livestock specifically chickens, a festival at the Amity Church [in Rocky Mount, N.C.?], criminal court and cases including a shooting in Scotland Neck, N.C. by a man "they call 'queer'" who would likely remain in the "Dangerous Insane Dept." for life, travel, and political appointments.

Also included is one letter dated 22 March 1913 from H.G. Connor of Wilson, N.C., to Julian Smith Mann, congratulating Mann on his election to be the Superintendent of the State Prison.

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