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Document recording the sale of an enslaved African American girl, Cheany (13), from Elizabeth Potts to Edwin Potts for 400 dollars. Also includes three wills written by E[...]
1825 - 1859 | Cartographic | Patterson Family Papers |
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Includes a Valentine's Day poem and party invitation to Margaret Lamira Houston Patterson, and correspondence from Laura Glover to Margaret Lamira Houston Patterson.
Approximately 1851 - 1901 | Cartographic | Patterson Family Papers |
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Includes slave bills-of-sale, correspondence regarding formerly enslaved people, correspondence regarding the Freedmen's Bureau, sharecropping terms offered to individual[...]
1832 - 1865 | Cartographic | Patterson Family Papers |
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Includes a certificate for militia duty, a marriage license (Photostat), correspondence (concerning typhus fever outbreak among enslaved individuals on the plantation), a[...]
1826-09-09 - 1872-04-03 | Cartographic | Patterson Family Papers |
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Primarily receipts, I.O.U.s, and other financial documents about various purchases including medical services, weaving services, textiles, real estate, newspaper subscrip[...]
1827 - 1868 | Cartographic | Patterson Family Papers |
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Includes receipts, documents, church histories, and correspondence relating to Bethel Presbyterian Church. Highlights include a letter from A. Springs petitioning to be r[...]
1841 - 1874 | Cartographic | Patterson Family Papers |
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Letter home from Julia Sloan while at Concord Female College in Statesville, NC. In it she references various family members, describes what her curriculum and work routi[...]
1860-03-18 | Cartographic | Patterson Family Papers |
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Papers of the Patterson family of northern Mecklenburg County, mainly concerning their business activities, real estate purchases, wills, and family correspondence. Includes documentation relating to African Americans enslaved by the Patterson family and freed in 1865 through the Emancipation Proclamation. Digitized content represents a small portion of the full collection of physical materials. Please visit https://findingaids.uncc.edu/repositories/4/resources/159 for a full collection inventory.