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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Britton and Moore Family Papers, #4136, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Partial microfilm copy available.

Acquisitions Information

Gift 1977; 1987

Additional Descriptive Resources

Original finding aid is filed in folder 1a.

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• Blodgett family.
• Britton family.
• Britton, J. Blodgett.
• Chemists--United States--History--19th century.
• Estates (Law)--United States.
• Moore family.
• Moore, Cornelius Godwin Cotten, d. 1888.
• New Orleans (La.)--Social life and customs.
• Northampton County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs.
• Physicians--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Real property--Pennsylvania--History.
• Real property--Washington (D.C.)--History.
• Rice--Louisiana--History--19th century.
• Warrenton (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Washington (D.C.)--History.

• Southall and Bowen Family Papers (#4135), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The collection contains financial and legal papers, and family correspondence (chiefly 1850-1889) of the Blodgett, Britton, and Moore families of Philadelphia, Pa., Northampton County, N.C., and New Orleans, La. Included are correspondence and legal items relating to land transactions in Philadelphia, the "Blodgett Claim" to land in central Washington, D.C., and various family estates; letters about life in New Orleans and rice production in Louisiana, 1845-1860; letters regarding community affairs in Philadelphia and in Warrenton, Va., 1871-1890, and J. Blodgett Britton's work as an industrial chemist in the late nineteenth century; and account books of Cornelius Godwin Cotten Moore (died 1888), physician of Northampton County.

• Oversize paper folder (OPF-4136/1)
• Extra-oversize paper folders (X-OPF-4136/1-2)