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Collection: MORDECAI, PATT3E, COLLECTION
1796-1876
Physical Description: Letters, accounts, poems, sketches. 173 items.
Acquisition: Gift of Miss Pattie Mordecai, Mimosa Street, Raleigh,
North Carolina.
June 22, 19Ut.
Description: Jacob Mordecai (1762-1838) settled in Warrenton, North
Carolina (1789) and after failing in business opened a female seminary
(1809) assisted. by his daughters Rachel and Ellen and son Solomon.
3h 1818 he retired to a farm near Richmond and moved to the city in
1829. By marriage to two sisters, he had a large family. Judith's
children were: Moses, Rachel, Ellen, Solomon, Samuel, and Caroline;
Rebecca's 'were: George W. , Alfred, Augustus, Julia, Eliza, Emma, and
Laura. Moses was a prominent lawyer in North Carolina; Samuel was a
merchant in Richmond; George was a lawyer and president of the Raleigh
and Gaston Railroad (18U0) and of the State Bank in North Carolina
(l81t5); Augustus farmed near Richmond; Emma engaged in educational
and religious work; Rachel married and moved to Wilmington, North
Carolina; Ellen lived to be ninety-three and wrote an unpublished
novel on Warrenton, North Carolina; Henry was a lawyer in Raleigh, ,
where he married the two daughters of Joel Lane; Solomon was a
physician in Mobile, Alabama; Caroline married Achilles Plunkett
and continued her father's school; Alfred was a major in the United
States Army. and held a number of important posts; Eliza married her
cousin Sam H, Myers; Laura, the youngest, died in 1839; and Julia
remained at heme.
