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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 T. E. Patton Survey Book #5228-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Robert Patton of Chapel Hill, N.C., in August 2005 (Acc. 100168).

Sensitive Materials Statement

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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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• Buncombe County (N.C.)--History.
• Buncombe County (N.C.)--Surveys.
• North Carolina--Surveys.
• Real property--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Surveying--North Carolina.
• Surveyors--North Carolina--History--19th century.

T. E. Patton was a land surveyor in Buncombe County, N.C., in 1836.

Land surveyor T. E. Patton's 37-page field book in which he recorded survey information in Buncombe County, N.C., from 9 July 1836 to 29 October 1836. Land survey information includes what can be assumed to be the property owners' names, the dates the survey was conducted, how the land was measured and identified, and the acreage of the land.