Inventory of the Simmons J. Baker Papers, 1793-1859
Collection Number 42-z
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Collection Information
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Baker, Simmons J. (Simmons Jones), 1775-1853.
- Title
- Simmons J. Baker Papers, 1793-1859
- Call Number
- 42-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
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- Items: 11
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Administrative Information
- Alternate Form of Material
- All or part of this collection is available on microfilm from University Publications of America as part of the Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series J.
- Acquisitions Information
- Received from Lena Smith of Scotland Neck, N.C., and Claiborne Smith of Rocky Mount, N.C., in May 1944.
- Processing Information
- Processed by: Scott Philyaw, April 1992
- Encoded by: Roslyn Holdzkom, July 2007
- 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.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Simmons J. Baker Papers #42-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Account books.
- Agriculture--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Baker family.
- Baker, Simmons J. (Simmons Jones), 1775-1853.
- Estates (Law)--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
- Family--Virginia--Social life and customs.
- Farm life--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Free African Americans--North Carolina.
- Plantations--North Carolina.
- Slavery--North Carolina.
- Watson, Thomas H., fl. 1845-1859.
Related Collections
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Blanche Baker Papers (#903)
Biographical/Historical Note
Simmons Jones Baker appears to have been a physician of Scotland Neck, N.C.
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The collection includes recollections of the Baker and related families of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, written from personal knowledge and tradition by physician Simmons J. Baker in 1847, with a few undated genealogical notes; a volume of farm accounts and some merchandise shipping records, 1845-1854, of Thomas H. Watson, planter of eastern North Carolina, including a few accounts with slaves or free blacks and entries relating to Baker's estate, 1853-1854; and a few miscellaneous receipts and other enclosures, 1800-1859 and undated.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Papers, 1793-1859.
11 items.
Folder
1Papers
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