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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Joseph Ramsey Papers, #2451, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Sensitive Materials Statement

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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Laura Hart, January 2021

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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Account books.
• Confederate States of America. Dept. of the Treasury.
• Confederate States of America. Lighthouse Bureau.
• Customs administration--Confederate States of America.
• Customs administration--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Estates (Law)--North Carolina.
• Insurance companies--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Lawyers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Lighthouses--Government policy--North Carolina.
• Plymouth (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Ramsey, Joseph, 1812-1866.
• Ramsey, William, d. 1839.
• Rocky Mount (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Confiscations and contributions.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Finance.
• Washington County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.

Lawyer of Plymouth, N.C., who moved to Rocky Mount, N.C., about 1863.

Business and property papers of Ramsey and of his father, William Ramsey (died 1839) of Washington County, N.C. Notes and receipts, 1830-1866, of Joseph Ramsey comprise a large part of the collection. Joseph Ramsey's papers also include estate settlements, deeds, bills of sale, accounts, and legal and other correspondence. Papers, 1860-1863, concern his functions as United States collector of customs at Plymouth and federal district superintendent of lights, and the same functions continued by him under the Confederate Treasury Department and the Confederate Lighthouse Bureau; and the legal handling of intersectional debts and the sequestration of enemy alien assets by the Confederate government. Rocky Mount, N.C., papers concern insurance company business. Also included are account books, 1853-1860, and 1907-1911, and a memorandum book, 1864-1866. There are few papers after 1866.