Hamilton Brown papers, 1752-1907, Wilkes County, North Carolina, and Maury and Davidson counties, Tennessee : also Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina, and Virginia

Author/Creator:

Brown, Hamilton, 1786-1870

Publication/Creation:

Bethesda, MD : University Publications of America, [1992]

Resource Type:

Book

Is Part Of:

Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Series J, pt. 14 reel 8.

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Full Title:

Hamilton Brown papers, 1752-1907, Wilkes County, North Carolina, and Maury and Davidson counties, Tennessee : also Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina, and Virginia

Series Titles:

Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Series J, Selections from the Southern Historical Collection, Manuscript Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Part 14, Western North Carolina ; reels 5-8
Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Selections from the Southern Historical Collection, Manuscript Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. reels 5-8.

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Additional Author/Creators:

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Brown, Hamilton,1786-1870--Archives
Brown, John,1738-1812--Correspondence
Brown, Hamilton,1786-1870--Correspondence
Brown, Hugh Thomas,1835-1861
Brown, Hamilton Allen,1837-1917--Correspondence
Gordon, James B.(James Byron),1822-1864
Brown family--Correspondence
Gordon family--Correspondence
Gwyn family--Correspondence
Finley family--Correspondence
United States Naval Academy--Students--Social life and customs
University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--Social life and customs
College students--United States--Social life and customs
Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs--Sources
Families--Tennessee--Social life and customs--Sources
Gold mines and mining--Georgia--History--19th century--Sources
Irish Americans--Southern States--History
Merchants--Georgia--History--19th century--Sources
Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century--Sources
Migration, Internal--Southern States--History--19th century--Sources
Women poets, American--19th century--Sources
Plantations--North Carolina--History--19th century--Sources
Slavery--Southern States--History--19th century--Sources
Plantation life--North Carolina--History--19th century--Sources
Family members
Lumpkin County (Ga.)--History--19th century--Sources
Maury County (Tenn.)--History--19th century--Sources
North Carolina--Economic conditions
Southern States--Description and travel
Southern States--Economic conditions
Wilkes County (N.C.)--History--19th century--Sources
Davidson County (Tenn.)--History--Sources
United States--History--War of 1812--Sources
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Sources
North Carolina--Politics and government--19th century--Sources
North Carolina--History--19th century--Sources

Description/Summary

Summary:

The collection includes extensive and varied business and personal papers of John Brown, his son Hamilton of Wilkesboro, N.C., and members of related families in Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. Substantive business correspondence, accounts, legal papers, and other items pertaining to land acquisitions, planting, slaves, livestock, lumbering, merchandising, estates, and politics in Wilkes County, N.C., and elsewhere are documented in the collection; also included is information on military service in the War of 1812 and the Civil War; gold mining in Lumpkin County, Ga.; travels and settlement in Tennessee, Missouri, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana in the early 19th century; business in Virginia, Georgia, and many places in western North Carolina; and local government of Wilkes County in the early 19th century. Other papers include letters and diaries, 1850s, of Hamilton Brown's sons at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill; letters from students at other colleges; and a play and poems by a female family member. Persons represented include John Brown (1738-1812), immigrant from Ulster, early landowner in western North Carolina and in Tennessee; his son, Hamilton (1786-1870), planter, businessman, sheriff, and militia officer of Wilkes County; Hamilton's sons Hugh Thomas Brown (1835-1861) and Hamilton Allen Brown (1837-1917); and Gordon, Gwyn, Finley, and McDowell relatives, including James Byron Gordon (1822-1864), Confederate general.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

4 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.

General Note:

Title from reel guide.
Accompanied by a printed reel guide.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937291010102486

OCLC Number:

259815871

Barcode:

010003113832
010003113834
010003113833