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Collection Overview
| Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 96 items) |
| Abstract | Ferdinand Hannon Whitaker was a farmer of Halifax County, N.C. The collection includes bills, receipts, accounts for the sale of cotton at Norfolk, Va., and Petersburg, Va., and Baltimore, Md., and for the purchase of goods; pocket account books of expenses and transactions, 1857-1890; family correspondence; and records of a Methodist Sunday school, 1854-1881. |
| Creator | Whitaker, Ferdinand Hannon, d. 1896. |
| Language | English |
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Subject Headings
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Biographical
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Ferdinand Hannon Whitaker (d. 1896) was a farmer of Halifax County, N.C.
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Scope and Content
The collection includes bills, receipts, accounts for the sale of cotton at Norfolk, Va., and Petersburg, Va., and Baltimore, Md., and for the purchase of goods; pocket account books of expenses and transactions, 1857-1890; family correspondence; and records of a Methodist Sunday school, 1854-1881.
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Series 1. Correspondence, 1849-1895.
Scattered letters to Ferdinand H. Whitaker from friends and relatives, including his wife's brother, Lemuel D'Berry. The earliest letters concern leisure activities, travel, and the price of crops and commoditites. There are a few Civil War letters from M. T. Whitaker while stationed at Yorktown, Va., 1861, and a letter to F. H. Whitaker from his wife and daughter while he was serving in a Home Guard Regiment, 1864. Post war letters are scattered and irregular and mention taxes, sale of property, and other business and personal matters. There are some letters, 1894-1895, of genealogical inquiry.
| Folder 1 |
Original finding aid #01002-z, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1849-1895." Folder 1 |
1849-1895 #01002-z, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1849-1895." Folder 1 |
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Series 2. Financial Papers, 1852-1856.
Accounts with cotton factories and commission merchants in Norfolk, Va., and Petersburg, Va., and Baltimore, Md. There are also miscellaneous merchandise and fertilizer accounts, bills, statements, receipts, and price lists.
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1852-1896 #01002-z, Series: "2. Financial Papers, 1852-1856." Folder 2 |
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Series 3. Volumes, 1844-1890.
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Subseries 3.1. Whitakers Chapel Records
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Volume I.1: Whitakers Chapel class book, 1854-1867 #01002-z, Subseries: "3.1. Whitakers Chapel Records" Folder 3Class roll with notes on marriages and family deaths. |
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Volume I.2: Sunday school roll book, 1871-1881 #01002-z, Subseries: "3.1. Whitakers Chapel Records" Folder 4Includes notes on marriages, deaths, and removals. |
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Subseries 3.2. Account Books
Includes a day book and nine pocket-sized account books for general merchandise and cotton.
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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