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Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 885 items) |
Abstract | Aaron Ashley Flowers Seawell (1810-1893) was a lawyer of Moore County, N.C. The collection includes deeds, land plats, wills, notes, receipts, legal proceedings, accounts for lumber and merchandise, memorandum books containing scattered notes and figures, scattered family correspondence, and other papers, chiefly 1850s-1880s, of Seawell and of other members of the Seawell family and members of the Buie family of Moore County. |
Creator | Seawell, Aaron Ashley Flowers, 1810-1893. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, April 2009
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.
Diacritics and other special characters have been omitted from this finding aid to facilitate keyword searching in web browsers.
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Aaron Ashley Flowers Seawell (1810-1893) was a lawyer of Moore County, N.C.
Back to TopThe collection includes deeds, land plats, indentures, wills, notes, receipts, legal proceedings, county records, accounts for lumber and merchandise, memorandum books containing scattered notes and figures, scattered family correspondence, and other papers, chiefly 1850s-1880s, of Aaron Ashley Flowers Seawell and of other members of the Seawell family and members of the Buie family of Moore County.
Back to TopFolder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
1810-1844 |
Folder 2 |
1850-1859 |
Folder 3 |
1860-1861 |
Folder 4 |
1862-1867 |
Folder 5 |
1868-1869 |
Folder 6 |
1870-1872 |
Folder 7 |
1873 |
Folder 8 |
1874 |
Folder 9 |
1875 |
Folder 10 |
1876-1877 |
Folder 11 |
1878 |
Folder 12 |
1879 |
Folder 13 |
1880 |
Folder 14 |
1881 |
Folder 15 |
1882-1883 |
Folder 16 |
1884 |
Folder 17-18
Folder 17Folder 18 |
1885 |
Folder 19 |
1886-1888 |
Folder 20 |
1890-1893 |
Folder 21-23
Folder 21Folder 22Folder 23 |
Undated |
Folder 24-31
Folder 24Folder 25Folder 26Folder 27Folder 28Folder 29Folder 30Folder 31 |
Volumes 1-8: Memoranda books |