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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Absalom Benton Whitaker papers #1124-z, 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 Mrs. Stanley Whitaker of Enfield, North Carolina, before 1946 and in November 1957 and March 1959.

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• Agriculture--Florida.
• Agriculture--North Carolina.
• Cotton growing--Florida.
• Cotton growing--North Carolina.
• Enfield (N.C.)--History.
• Halifax County (N.C.)--History.
• Leon County (Fla.)--History.
• Miccosukee (Fla.)--History.
• Plantations--Florida.
• Plantations--North Carolina.
• Whitaker, Absalom Benton, 1787-1845?
• Whitaker, James, d. 1829.
• Whitaker, John, fl. 1800.

Absalom Benton Whitaker was a cotton planter with plantations in Halifax County, N.C., and Leon County, Fla.

Materials have been divided into two parts, each housed in a folder and arranged chronologically: Absalom Benton Whitaker papers and estate of John Whitaker papers. Included in the Absalom Benton Whitaker papers, 1826-1845, are ledger sheets, receipts, letters to Whitaker, and an inventory of Whitaker's property, probably made near the time of his death. An 11 January 1841 letter is from Whitaker's son in Enfield, North Carolina, to his father in Miccosukie, Florida. Letters 17 March and 15 August 1843 from James Stamper and 2 December 1843 from Simon Partridge were sent from Miccosukie to Whitaker in Enfield. All of these letters relate to plantation activities.

Estate of John Whitaker papers, 1814-1829, relate to the settling of that estate by Absalom Benton Whitaker and his co-executor, James Whitaker.