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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Strudwick Family Papers #701, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

All or part of this collection is available on microfilm from University Publications of America as part of the Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series J.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Shepperd Strudwick, before 1940.

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• Alamance County (N.C.)--History--18th century.
• Bankruptcy--North Carolina--History--18th century.
• Burrington, George, ca. 1680-1759.
• Cape Fear River Valley (N.C.)--History--18th century.
• Cape Fear River Valley (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Family--England--Social life and customs.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Merchants--England--History--18th century.
• Plantations--North Carolina.
• Real property--England--History--18th century.
• Real property--North Carolina--History--18th century.
• Slavery--North Carolina.
• Strudwick family.
• Strudwick, Martha.
• Strudwick, Samuel, d. 1794.
• Strudwick, William F., d. 1812.
• Wilmington (N.C.)--Commerce--History--19th century.

• See also Frank Nash Papers (#539), James Webb Papers (#760) in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Business and legal papers of Samuel Strudwick (d. 1794), who lived near Wilmington, N.C.; his son William F. Strudwick (d. 1812), a Federalist member of Congress, 1796-1797; their wives, who were both named Martha; and other members of the Strudwick family of England and the Cape Fear River Valley of N.C. Much of the collection consists of deeds, indentures, and other papers relating to land and estate transactions, as well as slave inventories and a few family letters. Also included are letters to Samuel Strudwick from relatives and friends in England, from agents in London about property he owned there, and from merchants in Wilmington about the sale of tobacco and the purchase of articles, chiefly 1771-1792. There are also materials relating to the bankruptcy settlement, circa 1761, with George Burrington, son of North Carolina's Royal Governor George Burrington, by which the Strudwicks secured most of their considerable land holdings in North Carolina, including property in what are now New Hanover, Orange, and Alamance counties.

• Oversize papers (OP-701/1-7)