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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Lynch Family Papers, #3711-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Fletcher Green of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 1965.

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A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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• Families--United States--Social life and customs.
• Hillsborough (N.C.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
• Iowa--Social life and customs.
• Lynch family.
• Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Migration, Internal--United States--History--19th century.
• Missouri--Social life and customs.
• Orange County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Tennessee--Social life and customs.

The Lynch family of Orange County, N.C., counted among its members John Lynch, Mary Lynch, and Thomas Lynch (fl. 1840-1885) of Mebanesville, N.C. Thomas Lynch acted as the executor of the estate of Samuel Byrd or Bird (fl. 1817).

The collection includes five scattered letters, 1831, 1835, 1845, 1863, 1870, to members of the Lynch family of Orange County, N.C., from relatives in Tennessee, Missouri, and Iowa, about family matters; thirty-five deeds, bills, accounts, receipts, and tax papers accumulated in the Lynch family of Orange County; and an account book, 1873, of an unidentified general merchant in Hillsborough, N.C. Among the correspondents and persons mentioned in the papers are Thisbe Reeves, A. J. Bingham, Mary Lynch, Thomas Reeves, Coonie Smith, Anna P. Bird, Alex Mebane, John Tibbin, Robert Tinnin, Richard Bird, Samuel Bird, and Thomas Lynch.

Oversize papers (OPF-3711/1).