Bryant Bennett papers, 1767-1902, bulk 1840-1875, bulk bulk
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Summary
- Creator:
- Bennett, Bryant
- Abstract:
- Bryant Bennett was a merchant and planter residing in Williamston, North Carolina (in Martin County). This collection contains correspondence and papers of Bryant Bennett and of his family. Included are mercantile accounts of the firms of Bennett and Hyman in Williamston, N.C. and of Bennett and Price in Hamilton (both places in Martin County), school letters from a normal school in Oxford, North Carolina, deeds, promissory notes, receipts for land sold for taxes, plantation account books containing household and farm accounts, lists of slaves and supplies issued to them, business records dealing with the marketing of cotton at Norfolk, Virginia, agricultural treatises by one S. W. Outterbridge of Martin County, and letters to Bennett after he had moved to Plymouth, North Carolina, in 1869.
- Extent:
- 2 Linear Feet
- Language:
- Materials in English
- Collection ID:
- RL.10030
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection contains correspondence and papers of Bryant Bennett and of his family. Included are mercantile accounts of the firms of Bennett and Hyman in Williamston and of Bennett and Price in Hamilton (both places in Martin County), school letters from a normal school in Oxford, North Carolina, deeds, promissory notes, receipts for land sold for taxes, plantation account books containing household and farm accounts, lists of slaves and supplies issued to them, business records dealing with the marketing of cotton at Norfolk, Virginia, agricultural treatises by one S. W. Outterbridge of Martin County, and letters to Bennett after he had moved to Plymouth, North Carolina, in 1869.
Please note that all folder and item titles in this collection guide have been taken from card catalogs and other inventories created in the early 20th Century.
- Biographical / historical:
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Bryant Bennett was a merchant and planter residing in Williamston, North Carolina (in Martin County).
- Acquisition information:
- The Bryant Bennett papers were acquired by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library in 1933 and 1949.
- Processing information:
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Processed by: Rubenstein Library Staff
- Physical location:
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Subjects
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- Subjects:
- Agricultural literature -- Southern States
Plantations -- North Carolina
Merchants -- North Carolina
Slavery -- North Carolina
Cotton trade -- Southern States
Farm Management -- North Carolina - Names:
- Bennett and Hyman (Williamston, N.C.)
Bennett and Price (Hamilton, N.C.)
Bennett, Bryant
Outterbridge, S.W. - Places:
- North Carolina -- Economic conditions
Oxford (N.C.) -- History
Williamston (N.C.) -- History
Plymouth (N.C.) -- History
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