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Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 200 items) |
Abstract | Sarah Caldwell White was a resident of Mecklenburg County, N.C. The collection includes the papers of White, including business and legal correspondence, deeds, bills, receipts, accounts for household purchases, and other papers, chiefly 1870-1918, chiefly relating to property in Mecklenburg County, N.C. Also included are antebellum deeds, land surveys, other legal papers, and a few letters of the Caldwell family. Most of the letters contain family news. One letter, 28 February 1841, from William A. Graham to David Caldwell, discusses the inauguration of William Henry Harrison and Harrison's cabinet appointments. |
Creator | White, Sarah Caldwell. |
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, June 2010
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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Sarah Caldwell White was a resident of Mecklenburg County, N.C.
Back to TopThe collection includes the papers of Sarah Caldwell White, including business and legal correspondence, deeds, bills, receipts, accounts for household purchases, and other papers, chiefly 1870-1918, chiefly relating to property in Mecklenburg County, N.C. Also included are antebellum deeds, land surveys, other legal papers, and a few letters of the Caldwell family of Mecklenburg County, N.C. Most of the letters contain family news. One letter, 28 February 1841, from William A. Graham to David Caldwell, discusses the inauguration of William Henry Harrison and Harrison's cabinet appointments.
Back to TopFolder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
1770-1819 |
Folder 2 |
1821-1838 |
Folder 3 |
1840-1849 |
Folder 4 |
1851-1869 |
Folder 5 |
1870-1876 |
Folder 6 |
1880-1889 |
Folder 7 |
1890-1900 |
Folder 8 |
1901-1918 |
Folder 9 |
Undated |
Clippings |
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Folder 10 |
Volume 1: Memoranda, 1881-1884 |