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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Thomas Whiteside Papers #775-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from J. T. Farris before 1940.

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Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, August 1996

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, December 2009

This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Faris, John A., fl. 1850.
• Farris family.
• Freedmen--South Carolina.
• Mississippi County (Mo.)--Social life and customs.
• Patton family.
• Sharecropping--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Whiteside, Thomas, fl. 1829-1875.
• York County (S.C.)--History.

Thomas Whiteside was a plantation owner and lawyer of York County, S.C.

Scattered items of the Faris and Patton families of York District, S.C., 1829-1875, and of Thomas Whiteside of York District, 1866-1871. The Faris and Patton items include letters in the 1850s to John A. Faris from relatives describing life in Mississippi County, Mo., and items relating to farm and household supplies in the 1870s. The Whiteside items include receipts for supplies purchased and a sharecropping contract with a freedman, 1869.