Inventory of the De Caradeuc Family Papers, 1771-1947

Collection Number 1497


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Descriptive Summary
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Collection Overview
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Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
De Caradeuc family.
Title
De Caradeuc Family Papers, 1771-1947.
Call Number
1497
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
About 200 items (1.0 linear foot).
Abstract
Family and business correspondence, legal and political documents, reminiscences, and family history of the De Caradeuc family of France, Haiti, and South Carolina. Early letters and legal documents, 1771-1783 (in French), include a grant of land and titles by Louis XV, and a letter from Calonne. Business letters, beginning 1786, refer to the exportation of sugar from the De Caradeuc plantation on Hispaniola and the insurrections there. Letters from the De Caradeuc family in France to the family in the United States refer to the conflict between church and state in the early days of the Third Republic. Correspondence is chiefly 18th-century and written in French, but papers from 1878 to 1893 are in English. Twentieth- century papers are invitations and other family material. Also included are a Civil War and Reconstruction diary, 1863-1865, of James Achille de Caradeuc (1816-1895) of Aiken and Charleston, S.C., chiefly consisting of reflections on current events, a memoir by James A. de Caradeuc, family records, and a fragment of an unascribed novel dealing with a northern naturalist in South Carolina just before the Civil War.


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Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the De Caradeuc Family Papers, #1497, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Calonne, Charles Alexandre de, 1734-1802.
Church and state--France--History--19th century.
De Caradeuc family.
De Caradeuc, James Achille, 1816-1895.
Family--France--Social life and customs.
Family--Haiti--Social life and customs.
Family--South Carolina--Social life and customs.
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.
France--Politics and government--1870-1940.
France--Social life and customs.
Haiti--Economic conditions.
Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804.
Land grants--France--History--18th century.
Plantations--Haiti--History--18th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--South Carolina.
Revolutions--Haiti--History--18th century.
South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Sugar trade--Hispaniola--History--18th century.
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Collection Overview

Family and business correspondence, legal and political documents, reminiscences, and family history of the De Caradeuc family of France, Haiti, and South Carolina. Early letters and legal documents, 1771-1783 (in French), include a grant of land and titles by Louis XV, and a letter from Calonne. Business letters, beginning 1786, refer to the exportation of sugar from the De Caradeuc plantation on Hispaniola and the insurrections there. Letters from the De Caradeuc family in France to the family in the United States refer to the conflict between church and state in the early days of the Third Republic. Correspondence is chiefly 18th-century and written in French, but papers from 1878 to 1893 are in English. Twentieth- century papers are invitations and other family material. Also included are a Civil War and Reconstruction diary, 1863-1865, of James Achille de Caradeuc (1816-1895) of Aiken and Charleston, S.C., chiefly consisting of reflections on current events, a memoir by James A. de Caradeuc, family records, and a fragment of an unascribed novel dealing with a northern naturalist in South Carolina just before the Civil War.