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[Identification of item], in the John Reid Papers, #3882-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Acquired 1969

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• Family--Missouri--Social life and customs.
• Jackson County (Mo.)--Social life and customs.
• Madison County (Ky.)--Social life and customs.
• Measles--Kentucky--History--19th century.
• Reid, John B., fl. 1816.
• Reid, John, fl. 1816-1847.
• Reid, Keziah Simpson, 1767-1863.
• Simpson, Richard, fl. 1816-1847.

John Reid and his wife, Keziah Simpson Reid, lived in Caswell County, N.C.

Five letters, January-May 1816, to John Reid and his wife, Keziah Simpson Reid, in Caswell County, N.C., from their son, John B. Reid, and two from Keziah Reid's brother, Richard Simpson, both in Madison County, Ky., about John B. Reid's studies and struggle with measles, from which he died; four letters, 1845 and 1847, from Richard Simpson in Jackson County, Mo., to his sister Keziah and her family about family and community activities; and one letter, 1929, inquiring as to whether John Reid was the aide to General Andrew Jackson (he apparently was not).