Restrictions to Access

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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 Stephen Moore papers, #2205, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Edward Moore, Person County N.C., in 1940, and from Mrs. James Blank, Greenville, S.C., in 1944.

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.

Processed by: Tim West, August 1992

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

Updated by: Dawne Howard Lucas, December 2021

This collection was rehoused under the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.

Updated because of addition, January 2019

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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Account books.
• Agriculture--North Carolina--History--18th century.
• Agriculture--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Hillsborough (N.C.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
• Merchants--New York (State)--History--19th century.
• Merchants--North Carolina--History--18th century.
• Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Migration, Internal--United States--History--18th century.
• Moore family.
• Moore, Phillips, b. 1771.
• Moore, Phillips.
• Moore, Stephen, 1734-1799.
• Moore, Stephen.
• Moore, William.
• Mount Tirzah Plantation (Person County, N.C.)
• Person County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Plantations--North Carolina--Person County.

• Edward Vernon Howell Papers (#1060);
• Richard Stanford Papers (#2096);
• Webb Family Papers (#1900).

The collection includes accounts and business papers of Stephen Moore of New York, who moved to North Carolina during the Revolution, and of his son, PHillips (b. 1771), and grandsons Stephen and William, merchants in Hillsborough, N.C. Included are occasional letters from Stephen (1734-1799) to his father, Phillips, a New York City merchant, documenting their business affairs. Volumes include one shipping account book, New York City, 1767-1770; eighteen account books, 1781-1827, for farming operations, sales, and miscellany, at Mount Tirzah plantation in Person County, N.C.; thirteen account books, 1831-1867, of a general merchant at Hillsborough; and letters from William Moore to his father.

• OP-2205/1
• S-2205/Vols. 20, 23, 25-32
• Image folder (PF-02205/1)