Inventory of the Hugh Leach Books, 1799-1849
Collection Number 3997-z
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
- 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
- Leach, Hugh, 1814-1887.
- Title
- Hugh Leach Books, 1799-1849.
- Call Number
- 3997-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 2 volumes
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Administrative Information
- 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 Hugh Leach Books, #3997-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.
- Bookkeeping--Problems, exercises, etc.--History--19th century.
- England--Commerce--History--19th century.
- Hamilton (Schooner)
- Leach, Hugh, 1814-1887.
- Logbooks--History--19th century.
- Macpherson, Hugh.
- Mathematics--Problems, exercises, etc.--History--19th century.
- Merchants--England--History--19th century.
- Navigation--Problems, exercises, etc.--History--19th century.
- Ocean travel--History.
- Parker, William.
- Surveying--Problems, exercises, etc.--History--19th century.
- Voyages and travels--History.
Collection Overview
Volumes consisting chiefly of rules and exercises for the study of mathematics, surveying, navigation, and bookkeeping, but also containing a variety of miscellaneous memoranda by Hugh Leach, members of McPherson family, and other individuals in Moore County, N.C. Also included are a ledger of accounts, 1802, of William Parker, a London trader; an undated journal by "Hugh MacPherson, mate," of a voyage on the "Hamilton" of London from London to Madeira; and the log of a voyage from Greenock, Scotland, to Wilmington, N.C., in 1803.