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Collection Number: 04217-z

Collection Title: Thomas W. Burton Papers, 1809-1921

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Size 44 items
Abstract Thomas W. Burton and his wife Nancy lived in Yanceyville, Caswell County, N.C., from about 1850 to 1908. Correspondence between Burton and family members in Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama; the correspondents report to one another on the health of members of their families, the weather, the price of crops, the price of slaves, and the progress of the Civil War. The remainder of the papers are financial and legal documents that trace family crop sales and farm puchases; these documents end with a 1908 listing of Burton's personal property.
Creator Burton, Thomas W.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Thomas W. Burton papers #4217-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Lent for copying by John Shepherd and Jean Sadler of Burlington, N.C., in February 1980.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Thomas W. Burton and his wife Nancy lived in Yanceyville, Caswell County, N.C., from about 1850 to 1908.

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Correspondence between Burton and family members in Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama; the correspondents report to one another on the health of members of their families, the weather, the price of crops, the price of slaves, and the progress of the Civil War. The remainder of the papers are financial and legal documents that trace family crop sales and farm puchases; these documents end with a 1908 listing of Burton's personal property.

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Processing Information

Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, August 1996

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.

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