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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the John McNeill Account Book #5340-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from the Presbyterian Historical Society of Montreat, N.C., in 2007 (Acc. 100701).

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• Account books--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Agriculture--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Farmers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• McNeill, John, b. ca. 1801.
• Richmond County (N.C.)--Commerce.
• Richmond County (N.C.)--History.

John McNeill was born circa 1801 and died in the 1870s. He was a farmer in Richmond County, N.C.

The collection is an account book of Richmond County, N.C., farmer John McNeill, with entries 1854-1867. The account book tracks the quantity and price of items that McNeill sold, as well as payments made to McNeill. A large section of the middle of the book is missing.