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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the William H. McLaurin Papers #1596, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift, 1949.

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• College students--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Estates (Law)--North Carolina.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Horses--North Carolina--Pedigrees--History--19th century.
• McLaurin family.
• McLaurin, William H., 1840-1913.
• Plantations--North Carolina.
• Richmond County (N.C.)--History.
• Scotland County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Slave records--North Carolina.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--Social life and customs.
• Veterinary prescriptions--History--19th century.

William H. McLaurin (1840-1913) was a Scotland County, N.C., planter and a student, 1859-1861, at the University of North Carolina. McLaurin was one of the Confederate veterans awarded his degree from UNC in 1911.

The collection includes bills, receipts, accounts, and slight family correspondence, chiefly 1866-1880 of William H. McLaurin. Also included are letters McLaurin wrote when he was a student at the University of North Carolina in the late 1850s; a volume containing stud records and remedies for horse diseases and cow diseases, 1887-1889; and scattered antebellum accounts for purchases, slave records, estate settlement papers, mortgages, deeds, and letters of members of the McLaurin family, planters in Richmond County, N.C., and other places.

PF-1596/1