William Long (1801-1876) Papers, MfP.125

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William Long (1801-1876) Papers, MfP.125

Descriptive Summary

Title
William Long (1801-1876) Papers
Call Number
MfP.125
Creator
Unknown
Date
1804-1972
Repository
State Archives of North Carolina

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    Collection Overview

    Papers of William Long, Caswell Co. planter and legislator, one of developers of the bright-leaf tobacco curing process. Correspondence, largely antebellum, includes many letters between William and brother John in Hinds Co., Miss., about their cotton plantation there, prices, slaves, and neighbors from North Carolina (1836-1839). Other letters include one from slave reunited with his wife (Dec., 1860); several from slave trader employed by Long to transport slaves to Mississippi and Alabama for sale (1845-1846); letters about tobacco sales and flue-curing (1854); and letters from sons at UNC, in Confederate army and Home Guard. There are many receipts for slaves, medical care, tuition, tobacco sales, tailoring (Lazarus Fels), and furniture made by free Negro Thomas Day (1849-1859); and estate papers for John R. Long, William Long, Benjamin Stephens, and the James Lea family. Also in collection are contracts with freedmen (1865); membership list of Caswell Co. Agricultural Society (1853); papers of the Border Agricultural Society of Virginia and North Carolina, including description of fair (1868); partial tax lists (1836, n.d.); miscellaneous deeds (1834-1900); recipes; and pension certificate for War of 1812 (Vincent Bradshaw, 1872).

    Contents of the Collection

    Subject Headings

  1. Long, William
  2. Long, John
  3. Long family
  4. Long, John R.
  5. Stephens, Benjamin
  6. Lea, James
  7. Lea Family
  8. Day, Thomas
  9. Bradshaw, Vincent
  10. Fels, Lazarus
  11. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  12. Confederate States of America
  13. North Carolina. Home Guard
  14. Caswell County Agricultural Society
  15. Border Agricultural Society of Virginia and North Carolina
  16. Plantation Owners
  17. Legislators
  18. Spouses
  19. Slaves
  20. Freedmen
  21. War of 1812
  22. Taxation
  23. Marriage
  24. Slave Traders
  25. Slave Patrols
  26. Slaveholders
  27. Transportation
  28. Tobacco industry
  29. Tobacco curing
  30. Medical care
  31. Cabinetmakers
  32. Cabinet work
  33. Furniture
  34. Pensions, Military
  35. Fairs
  36. Administration of estates
  37. College students
  38. Universities and colleges
  39. Soldiers
  40. Tailors
  41. Plantations
  42. Cotton
  43. Membership
  44. Agriculture
  45. Agriculturists
  46. Caswell County (N.C.)
  47. Hinds County (Miss.)
  48. Mississippi
  49. Alabama