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[Identification of item], in the Steed and Phipps Family Papers, #3960, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Transferred from the North Carolina Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1973.

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A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, May 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.

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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• Agriculture--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Allen, Erastus T.
• Blount, William H., fl. 1853-1865.
• Brunswick County (Va.)--History.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 47th.
• Estates (Law)--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Opheleton Seminary (Easton, Pa.)
• Phipps family.
• Phipps, Benjamin.
• Stead family.
• Steed family.
• Steed, Alexander L., -1891.
• Steed, Elizabeth Lundie Phipps, -1902.
• Steed, Henry.
• Steed, Jedathan.
• Steed, Mary E.
• Vance County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Warren County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Women teachers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Women--Education--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Women--Education--Pennsylvania--History--19th century.

The Steed and Phipps families were united by the marriage, 1870, of Elizabeth Lundie Phipps (died 1902), a school teacher of Nash and Harnett counties, N.C., to her cousin, Alexander L. Steed (died 1891) a farmer. After their marriage they resided in Vance County, N.C. Their children were Mary E. Steed, Henry Steed, and Eugenia Steed.

The collection includes personal and family correspondence, financial documents, and other papers of members of the Steed and Phipps families. Early items include papers related to Elizabeth Lundie Phipps's attendance at Opheleton Seminary in Easton, Pa.; letters to Bettie while teaching at Castalia, Nash County, N.C., from her cousins, Alexander Steed, who was farming in Warren County, N.C., and Erastus ("Raz") T. Allen in Tennessee. Civil War items include an 1863 tax evaluation for land and slaves in Warren County, N.C.; and letters from family friend Lieutenant William H. Blount, serving with the 47th North Carolina Regiment in North Carolina and Virginia, 1863-1865, describing camp life, religious activity, and a visit to the Confederate Congress in January 1864. Postwar items include continued correspondence among the cousins. Bettie and Alexander were married by 1870 and many of the later items are household bills, receipts, and accounts and correspondence among their children, including Mary L. Steed at school, first in Littleton and later in Greensboro, N.C., and at home in Vance County; and her brother, Henry, a farmer in Vance County. Throughout the collection there is correspondence concerning the estates of Benjamin Phipps and Jedathan Steed, both of Brunswick County, Va.