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Restrictions to Use

No usage restrictions.

Copyright Notice

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

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Julian Smith Mann Papers, #488, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Julian Smith Mann of Hyde County, N.C., prior to 1940.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Account books.
• Agricultural laborers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Agricultural prices--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Currituck (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Estates (Law)--North Carolina.
• Fairfield (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Hyde County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Lake Landing (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Lawyers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Mann, Julian Smith, 1863-1946.
• Plantations--North Carolina.
• Schools--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Taxation--North Carolina--History--19th century.

Julian Smith Mann (1863-1946) was a planter, state legislator, and lawyer of Middleton, Hyde County, N.C., and of New Bern, N.C. He was a graduate of the University of North Carolina, 1885, and thereafter studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1887.

The collection includes scattered legal and business papers, chiefly 1800-1895, of Julian Smith Mann and his ancestors. Included are legal and business correspondence; a school census, 1849; tax lists for Currituck, Fairfield, and Lake Landing townships in Hyde County, N.C.; weekly market reports on prices of agricultural products, 1873-1874; accounts with laborers, 1858; general merchandise daybooks, 1832-1833 and 1876; estate settlement records; miscellaneous accounts, 1811-1821 and 1833-1836; a volume summarizing Virginia law; and other papers. Other persons mentioned in the papers include J. W. Gibbs, Jones Boomer, the McCloud family, A. Tunnell, and E. L. Mann.