Inventory of the Thomas Hallyburton Papers, 1833-1971
Collection Number 5220-z
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Hallyburton, Thomas, 1763-1841.
- Title
- Thomas Hallyburton Papers, 1833-1971 (bulk 1833-1843)
- Call Number
- 5220-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
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- Items: 4
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Administrative Information
- Acquisitions Information
- Received from M & S Rare Books, Inc., of Providence, R.I., in June 2005 (Acc. 100103).
- Processing Information
- Processed by: Nathalie Wheaton, December 2005
- Encoded by: Nathalie Wheaton, December 2005
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Thomas Hallyburton Papers #5220-z, 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.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Baptists--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Gold miners--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Gold mines and mining--Appalachian Region, Southern.
- Gold mines and mining--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Hallyburton, Thomas, 1763-1841.
- Rutherfordton (N.C.)--History.
- Shoemakers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
Biographical Note
Thomas Hallyburton (1763-1841), probably of Rutherfordton, N.C., was a shoemaker and gold miner.
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Papers of Thomas Hallyburton (1763-1841), probably of Rutherfordton, N.C., shoemaker and gold miner, include a ledger, an insert in the ledger, a bulletin, and photocopied pages of a book. Thomas Hallyburton's ledger dates from 1833 to 1843, and mostly contains information related to shoe sales and repairs and sales of gold from Doggett's Mine. An undated insert in the ledger is a handwritten note about how the Rutherfordton Baptist Church collected contributions from parishioners. Also included is Gold Deposits in North Carolina by Herman J. Bryson, a bulletin published by the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development in 1936, and photocopied pages from Gold and Silver in the West: The Illustrated History of the American Dream by T. H. Watkins, 1971, which includes historical information about the Appalacian Gold Fields.
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Detailed Description of the Collection
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