Mrs. J.L. Blake Papers, PC.1524

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Mrs. J.L. Blake Papers, PC.1524

Descriptive Summary

Title
Mrs. J.L. Blake Papers
Call Number
PC.1524
Creator
Unknown
Date
1832-1905
Repository
State Archives of North Carolina

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    Collection Overview

    Photocopies of correspondence of the family of Isham Blake, Jr., merchant and farmer of Fayetteville and later Robeson Co., including letter about the 1836 election in Chatham Co. and Civil War letters (June-Oct., 1861) from Blake and wife to son John H. Blake, Co. H, 1st Regt. N.C. Infantry (6 months, 1861), commenting on shortages, the blockade, formation of military companies, plans for railroad to coal- fields, work on the Fayetteville Arsenal, businesses closing, and alarm in Wilmington. Many copies are partially illegible.

    Contents of the Collection

    Subject Headings

  1. Blake, J. L., Mrs.
  2. Blake, Isham, Jr.
  3. Blake, John H.
  4. Blake Family
  5. Confederate States of America
  6. Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 1st. Company H
  7. Fayetteville Arsenal
  8. Merchants
  9. Farmers
  10. Railroads
  11. Fear
  12. Shortages
  13. Blockades
  14. Business
  15. Elections
  16. Coal Mines
  17. Track
  18. Military service
  19. Robeson County (N.C.)
  20. Fayetteville (N.C.)
  21. Chatham County (N.C.)
  22. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
  23. Wilmington (N.C.)