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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Preston H. Turner Papers #3332-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. J. P. Turner of Raleigh, N.C., in February 1958.

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• College students--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Freedmen--North Carolina--Biography.
• Greensboro College (N.C.)--Students--History--19th century.
• Horse trading--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Lilly, Julia Francis, fl. 1859.
• Pennsylvania--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Slave records--North Carolina.
• Slaves--North Carolina--Biography.
• Turner, Jake, 1832-1906.
• Turner, Preston H.
• Women college students--North Carolina--Social life and customs.

Pieces of a deed, 15 April 1820, between John Robinson to William Peacock for land in Montgomery County, N.C.

A true copy of the original title to the above-mentioned tract, 1820, granted to John W. McCoy in 1746 then in Bladen County, N.C.

A slave list, 1800-1855, with names and birthdays of the slaves.

Letter, 20 December 1859, from Julia Frances Lilly at Greensboro College to Minerva Ewing at Pekin, N.C.

Letter, 28 June 1863, from a Confederate soldier (Preston H. Turner?), quartered in U.S. Barracks, Carlisle, Pa., to his parents telling of an expedition into Maryland and Pennsylvania.

Transcript of a judgement, 1 July 1872, in Justice's Court in the case of James Kyle v. J. W. Ewing, administrator of Joseph Ewing's estate.

Letter, 25 November 1875, from J. B. Strother of Bostick Mills, Richmond County, N.C., to Col. William C. Edmundson about a horse trade involving a sick horse and an unpaid note.

Letter, 9 December 1875, from William Edmundson of Meadow View, Va., to Preston H. Turner about the same horse trader.

A tribute, 1906, by Preston H. Turner to his former slave and lifelong friend, Jake Turner (1832-1906).