Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                             #M-2851
                 KEAN AND PRESCOTT FAMILY PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Scattered personal correspondence of the Hill and
           Kean families of Carolina County, Va., and the
           Prescott and Moore families of Louisiana.  Topics
           include the War of 1812, economic conditions in the
           1840s, and planting in Louisiana; slavery in Virginia;
           and Reconstruction in both states.  Included are
           scattered papers of Robert Garlick Hill Kean (1822-
           1898) of Virginia, but no papers relating to his
           service in the Confederate government, and of John
           Moore (1788-1867), U.S. representative from Louisiana.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Agriculture--Louisiana--History--19th century.
   Caroline County (Va.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
   Family--Louisiana--Social life and customs--19th century.
   Family--Virginia--Social life and customs--19th century.
   Hill family.
   Kean, Robert Garlick Hill, 1822-1898.
   Kean family.
   Louisiana--Economic conditions--19th century.
   Louisiana--History--War of 1812.
   Moore, John, 1788-1867.
   Moore family.
   Prescott family.
   Reconstruction--Louisiana.
   Reconstruction--Virginia.
   Slavery--Virginia.
   Virginia--Social life and customs--19th century.

Size:  About 85 items (1 reel of microfilm).

Provenance:    Lent for filming by Mrs. Fred H. Gallup of
               Charlotte, N.C., in October 1952; Mrs. Robert Hill
               Kean of Richmond, Va., in February 1953; and Mrs.
               James H. Moulder of Miami, Fla., in November 1957.

Access:        No restrictions.

Processing Note:   This collection was processed with support
                   from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.  

Copyright:     Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
               or their descendants, as stipulated by United
               States copyright law.