| Summary |
Collection contains correspondence, receipts, accounts, notes, bills of sale, and miscellaneous items of Noah Buchanan and his children. Correspondence includes letters of Nathan J. Buchanan, written from Wharton County, Tex., to his brother, Alvin G. Buchanan, between 1855 and 1861. Nathan relates the rapid growth of Texas, local weather, crops grown, slave prices, land costs, and the incursion of Mexicans and Indians into Texas. Two letters (1861) from W. J. Yarbrough describe the location and activities of Camp Wiot (Wyatt), a Confederate camp located in New Hanover County, N.C. The bulk of the collection consists of receipts, accounts, notes, bills of sale, and a warrant for arrest, dated May 19, 1820, for John C. Boling. The estate inventory of Noah Buchanan, conducted in 1854 by Alvin G. Buchanan, lists his property, financial holdings, and his slaves by name. Other items include an 1861 notebook containing entries concerning farm work and a Democratic Party presidential campaign leaflet (1912) portraying Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall and citing portions of recent speeches and public pronouncements. |
| Biographical note | In the early nineteenth century, three Buchanan brothers moved from Pennsylvania to North Carolina. One settled in Chatham County, one in the area of Sanford, and the other on the upper Cape Fear. This collection contains the papers of one of the three brothers, Noah Buchanan, and his children. Noah Buchanan lived in Moore (now Lee) County, N.C. |
