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[Identification of item], in William Stevens Powell Material for Iredell and Adjacent Counties, N.C. #3300, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from William Stevens Powell of Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1955, 1957, and 1961.

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• Account books.
• African American college students--Washington (D.C.)--History--20th century.
• Agriculture--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Birmingham (Ala.)--Social life and customs.
• Blacksmiths--Accounting--History--19th century.
• Building materials industry--Illinois--History--19th century.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Goodman family.
• Goodman, Ellen.
• Goodman, Tobias, 1814-1880.
• Hillsboro (Ill.)--Economic conditions.
• Howard University--Students--History--20th century.
• Iredell County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Lavon (Tex.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Medical students--Washington (D.C.)--History--20th century.
• Migration, Internal--United States--History--19th century.
• Norton, Janie Lee.
• Railroads--Alabama--Employers--History--19th century.
• Washington, William D.

Papers collected by William S. Powell pertaining to Iredell and adjacent counties of North Carolina. The bulk consists of family correspondence, 1867-1901, and account books of two generations of the Goodman family. Letters are personal correspondence of Tobias Goodman (1814-1880) of Amity, Iredell County; his wife Ellen; and his sons and a nephew, including a building materials merchant at Hillsboro, Ill., a railroad employee at Birmingham, Ala., a resident of Lavon, Tex., and others. Letters from Hillsboro, Ill., discuss weather, prices, wages, opportunity that led to leaving North Carolina, the high cost of food in Illinois, and homesickness. Other personal letters discuss farming and give family news, especially about illnesses, deaths, and estates. Account books, chiefly from Iredell County, are for general merchandise and lumber sales, 1853-1856; church contributions (perhaps Presbyterian), 1855-1856; farm crops and miscellaneous labor, 1891; and a blacksmith, Goodwin and White, of Statesville, N.C., 1891-1893. Also included are miscellaneous Goodman family bills and receipts; deeds of other persons; and fourteen letters, 1922-1924, from a North Carolina black medical student, William D. Washington, at Howard University, Washington, D.C., to a friend, Janie Lee Norton, in Davidson, N.C.

• Oversize volume (SV-3300/1)