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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Goelet and Buncombe Family Papers, #1112, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift and loan 1946, 1959

Additional Descriptive Resources

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Sensitive Materials Statement

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Buncombe family.
• Confederate States of America--Officials and employees--Photographs.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Photographs.
• Family--Alabama--Social life and customs.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Goelet family.
• Goelet, Francis, 1724-1767.
• Goelet, Jane Smith.
• Netherlands Antilles--Commerce.
• North Carolina--Genealogy.
• Rogers family.
• Rogers, Elizabeth Goelet, 1843-1924.
• Rogers, Walter Henry, d. 1906.
• Sint Eustatius (Netherlands Antilles)--Economic conditions--18th century.
• Smith family.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• Southern States--Genealogy.
• Traditional medicine--United States--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
• Washington County (N.C.)--History.

Family correspondence, some business papers, and genealogical materials pertaining to the related Buncombe, Goelet, Rogers, and Smith families of North Carolina, Alabama, and Louisiana, dating from the colonial period to the 20th century. The bulk of the collection consists of the personal correspondence and genealogical materials of Elizabeth (Goelet) Rogers (1843-1924) of New Orleans, La., with some papers of her husband, Walter Henry Rogers, judge and Louisiana attorney general. Also included are papers of the Goelet and Buncombe families of Washington County, N.C., from the colonial period through the Civil War; after 1857, family correspondence of Jane (Smith) Goelet, mother of Elizabeth (Goelet) Rogers, and her Smith relatives of Mobile and Demopolis, Ala., including Civil War letters; and other items. Volumes include a record book, 1756, kept by Francis Goelet at St. Eustatius, West Indies (now Netherlands Antilles), of goods shipped to his family; a book of home remedies, 1850- 1860; and a photograph album of Confederate military officers and government officials.