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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Corpening and Kincaid Family Papers #178, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Emma and Charles Corpening of Caldwell County, N.C., prior to 1940.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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• Account books.
• Burke County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Caldwell County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Corpening family.
• Corpening, Andrew Jackson, 1818-1904.
• Corpening, John E., fl. 1852-1897.
• Estates (Law)--North Carolina.
• Finance, Personal--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Kincaid family.
• Kincaid, John, d. ca. 1869.
• Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Plantation owners--North Carolina.

John Kincaid (d. circa 1869) of Burke County, N.C., was a planter and business man. He served as justice of the peace for Burke County and as agent of a gold mine company.

Andrew Jackson Corpening (1818-1904) was the administrator of John Kincaid's estate. His brother was John E. Corpening (fl. 1852-1879) of Caldwell County, N.C.

The collection includes scattered bills, receipts, notes, deeds, and other legal papers of John Kincaid; papers of Andrew Jackson Corpening as administrator of Kincaid's estate; and three general merchandise daybooks, 1852-1897, of John E. Corpening, Caldwell County, N.C.

• Oversize volume (SV-178/2)