Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                             #572-z
                        JOHN OWEN PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Chiefly legal papers and letters of John Owen
           (1787-1841) dealing with lands in Bladen County, N.C.,
           1814-1828.  Included are indentures, land plats, land
           grants, records of land sales and slave sales, deeds,
           wills, bills, receipts, and a Confederate tax list for
           1861.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Bladen County (N.C.)--Economic conditions--19th century.
   Confederate States of America--Economic conditions.
   Land grants--North Carolina.
   Owen, John, 1787-1841.
   Real property--North Carolina--History.
   Slave bills of sale--North Carolina.
   Taxation--Confederate States of America.

Size:  53 items (3 folders and OP-572/1-2).

Provenance:    Received from Mary Owen Graham of Charlotte, N.C.,
               before 1940.

Access:        No restrictions.  Microfilm copy available.

Processing Note:   This collection was processed with support
                   from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.  

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