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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Whitaker and Meade Family Papers #1132, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mr. and Mrs. Spier Whitaker of Enfield, N.C., in July, 1946.

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• Alabama--Social life and customs.
• Amelia County (Va.)--History.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Families--Virginia--Social life and customs.
• Halifax County (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Lawyers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Mead family.
• Meade, Richard Everard.
• Migration, Internal--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Mississippi--Social life and customs.
• Physicians--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• Virginia--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
• Whitaker family.

Richard Everard Meade was a physician, of Amelia County, Va. Members of the Whitaker family lived in Halifax County, N.C.

The collection contains family correspondence of Richard Everard Meade up to 1808 (including a few Revolutionary War items), and of Meade and his son-in-law at various places in Alabama and Mississippi, 1828-1866. Also included are scattered family papers, 1775-1893, of the Whitaker family of Halifax County, N.C., including letters from Confederate soldiers and a lawyer's letterpress copybook, 1890-1893.

• Oversize paper (OP-1132/1)