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
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.