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• Account books--North Carolina.
• Cotton trade--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Franklin County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Franklin County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Freedmen--Employment--North Carolina.
• Hill, Daniel Shine, 1812-1873.
• Louisburg (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Louisburg College.
• Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Plantations--North Carolina.
• Sons of Temperance of North America.
• Temperance--North Carolina--Societies, etc.--History--19th century.
• Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

• Matthew Smart Davis Papers (#4125)
• Hill and Davis Family Papers (#4393)

Daniel Shine Hill, son of Charles Applewhite and Rebecca Wesley Long Hill, was born in Franklin County, N.C., on 14 December 1812. In 1835, he married Susan Irwin Toole (1815-1878), with whom he had nine children, eight of whom survived to adulthood: Sarah Louisa Hill, born 13 October 1836, married Matthew S. Davis of Louisburg, N.C.; Madeline Elizabeth Hill, born 10 August 1839, married James H. Best of Wayne County, N.C.; Susan Rebecca Hill, born April 1842, died young; Mary Pauline Hill, born September 1845, married John R. Brooks; Florence Monterey Hill, born 24 July 1847, married Garland Jones of Raleigh, N.C., died 9 September 1906; Charles Geraldus Hill, born 1850, physician of Baltimore, Md., died 1927; Isabel Hill, born 1855, married Walter Stark of Oxford, N.C.; Carolina Toole Hill, born 1859, married Harold Churchman Painter of Baltimore, Md.; Daniel Sehon Hill, born 1862, married Florence Hartman.

Daniel Shine Hill lived in Louisburg, N.C., for most of his life. He was a planter, businessman, an active member of the Sons of the Temperance Society, and a major in the Confederate Army. Hill also served on the board of trustees of Louisburg Female College. Hill was active in his business and the temperance movement until his death in 1873.

Papers of Daniel Shine Hill consist chiefly of business correspondence, letters concerning the Sons of the Temperance Society, receipts, and price lists. Hill dealt primarily in dry goods, groceries, hardware, clothing, and textiles, chiefly with merchants from Petersburg, Va., as well as local businessmen and other merchants along the eastern seaboard. He was a very active member of the Sons of the Temperance Society and items concerning this organization appear frequently throughout this collection. There is also some correspondence relating to Louisburg Female College and to the sale of cotton and the status of the cotton market and a few brief items concerning the hiring of freed slaves.

The addition of November 2003 contains an account book, 1852-1864, containing details of Hill's financial arrangements with overseers, recipes for a number of folk remedies, and other information. Also included are a receipt and miscellaneous ephemera.