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| Size | About 100 items |
| Abstract | The Cobb and Whitfield families of North Carolina and Florida included John P. Cobb (1834-1923), who was born in Wayne County, N.C., married Sally Eliza Whitfield in 1865, and moved to Florida, and James Bryan Whitfield (1809-1841) of Falling Creek and Strabane, Lenoir County, N.C., who was a planter, state senator, and major general in the North Carolina militia. The collection includes 18th- and early 19th-century Cobb and Whitfield family deeds, land grants, and legal agreements from eastern North Carolina, especially Wayne, Craven, and Duplin counties. Also included is family correspondence, after 1837, of James Bryan Whitfield, including two letters, 1840, from United States Senator Robert Strange regarding the admission of Florida to the United States as a slave state. |
| Creator | Cobb family.
Whitfield family. |
| Language | English. |
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John P. Cobb (1834-1923) was born in Wayne County, N.C., son of William D. and Anne Collier Cobb. He received an A.B. from the University of North Carolina in 1854. He served in the 2nd Infantry Regiment of North Carolina Troops in the Confederate Army, 1861-1865, ending the war as a colonel. Cobb married Sally Eliza Whitfield in 1865 and moved to Florida, where he held state and government jobs and was in the citrus fruit business.
James Bryan Whitfield (1809-1841) of Falling Creek and Strabane, Lenoir County, N.C., was a merchant and planter. He studied at the University of North Carolina in 1824, served as a state senator in 1840, and was a major general in the North Carolina militia.
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The collection includes 18th- and early 19th-century Cobb and Whitfield family deeds, land grants, and legal agreements from eastern North Carolina, especially Wayne, Craven, and Duplin counties. Also included is family correspondence, after 1837, of James Bryan Whitfield (1809-1841), Lenoir County, N.C., planter and state legislator, including two letters, 1840, from United States Senator Robert Strange regarding the admission of Florida to the United States as a slave state.
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Cobb and Whitefield Family Papers, 1736-1946.
Arrangement: chronological.
The collection contains chiefly 18th- and early 19th-century Cobb and Whitfield family deeds, land grants, and legal agreements from eastern North Carolina, especially Wayne, Craven, and Duplin counties; together with family correspondence, after 1837, of James Bryan Whitfield (1809-1841), Lenoir County, N.C., planter and state legislator, including two letters, 1840, from United States Senator Robert Strange regarding the admission of Florida to the United States as a slave state.
Most items are from the Whitfield family. Cobb family items are few and scattered. They include an account with William D. Cobb, 1845, and the college diploma, notes, and will of John P. Cobb.
In the last folder are undated typed transcriptions of land records, 1682, 1685,and 1693, of Matthew Whitfield in southeastern Virginia and a clipping, 1946, concerning the death of William D. Cobb, son of John P. Cobb, of Hernando County, Fla., as well as other items concerning Cobb and Whitfield family history.
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Items Separated
Oversize paper folder (OPF-1708/1)
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Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, December 2009
This collection was rehoused with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.
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