Inventory of the William James Payne Journal, 1857-1861
Collection Number 5208-z
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Payne, William James, 1827-1901.
- Title
- William James Payne Journal, 1857-1861
- Call Number
- 5208-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
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- Items: 1
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Administrative Information
- Acquisitions Information
- Purchased from Charles Apfelbaum of Watchung, N.J., in May 2005 (Acc. 100068).
- Processing Information
- Processed by: Nathalie Wheaton, December 2005
- Encoded by: Nathalie Wheaton, December 2005
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the William James Payne Journal #5208-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Corn--Virginia--History--19th century.
- Family--Virginia--Social life and customs.
- Fluvanna County (Va.)--History.
- Fluvanna County (Va.)--Social life and customs.
- Payne, William James, 1827-1901.
- Plantation owners--Virginia.
- Plantations--Virginia.
- Slave trade--Virginia.
- Slavery--Virginia.
- Tobacco--Virginia--History--19th century.
Biographical Note
William James Payne (1827-1901) owned the Pleasant View plantation in Fluvanna County, Va. He married Elizabeth Virginia Jones on 28 February 1854.
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The collection is William James Payne's plantation journal for Pleasant View plantation in Fluvanna County, Va. The journal contains daily entries of a few sentences each, 7 October 1857-27 March 1861, with information about the buying slaves, selling slaves, the daily work of slaves, Payne's daily tasks, the weather, family news, and crops including corn and tobacco. The last few pages of the journal have account information, some of it related to corn transactions. There are also Payne's comments on the national political situation and the impending Civil War.
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Detailed Description of the Collection
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