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Collection Overview
| Size | 3.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1550 items) |
| Abstract | Caswell County, N.C., was established in 1777. The collection includes unrelated business and legal papers and books of several generations of Caswell County, N.C., residents, including papers, 1701-1905, relating to pension claims, bonds, mortgages, real estate, and other legal matters; and volumes, 1807-1873, including general merchandise daybooks and ledgers, and blacksmiths' accounts, 1807-1850, of William Lea and Company; other merchants' accounts, 1853-1859, with the common schools; and county court accounts, 1872-1873. |
| Language | English |
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Subject Headings
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Historical Information
Caswell County, N.C., was established in 1777.
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Scope and Content
The collection includes unrelated business and legal papers and books of several generations of Caswell County, N.C., residents, including papers, 1701-1905, relating to pension claims, bonds, mortgages, real estate, and other legal matters; and volumes, 1807-1873, including general merchandise daybooks and ledgers, and blacksmiths' accounts, 1807-1850, of William Lea and Company; other merchants' accounts, 1853-1859, with the common schools; and county court accounts, 1872-1873.
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Caswell County (N.C.) Papers, 1701-1905 and undated.
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Items Separated
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, December 2009
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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