1783.1
Collection: Stephen
В.
WINDERS Papers
1763-1880
Duplin County, N.C.
Physical Description: 126 items (5 letters; accounts, civil warrants, estates,
deeds, tax records, promissory notes, court-martial, miscellaneous)
Acquisition: Gift of Col. Robert S. Milner, Charleston, S.C., April 29, 1985.
Description: These papers are random survivals of a Duplin County fanner,
and consist chiefly of deeds and land papers (1763-1851) , cotton and
merchants' accounts (1837-1877), and warrants in civil suits (1844-1859).
Some papers concerning the estates of Samuel Albertson (1824) , Edward
Winders (1836), and James Winders (1858), and the guardianship of Nancy
Herring (1855) are in the collection. Included, too, are two bills bf
payment due to Duplin County teachers, James W. Dickson (1852) and
Ellen L. Tolar (1869), Winders’ account of tax in kind owing to the
Confederate States of America (1865), and entries from the minutes of
the Duplin County court-martial for the militia in Wolf scrape District
(1847). Among the correspondence, Blaney W. Burton's letter to Henry J.
Winders dated Dec. 1, 1857, includes a humorous characterization of the
community of Chinquapin. The miscellaneous papers include the text of
the spiritual song, "Long Time Ago" (Jackson, Another Sheaf of White
Spirituals, p.132) .
SUBJECT ENTRIES
Duplin County
Chinquapin, N.C.
Wolfscrape District
Tax in kind
Confederate States of America
Courts-Martial
Folk Songs
Cotton Marketing
Militia
Albertson, Samuel
Winders, Edward.
Winders, James
Herring, Nancy
Dickson, James W
Tolar, Ellen L.
Finding aid completed April 9, 1991, by George Stevenson
