The New York commerce connection : a planter-merchant during the antebellum North Carolina turpentine boom - ECU Libraries Catalog

The New York commerce connection : a planter-merchant during the antebellum North Carolina turpentine boom / by Wallace Bryson Bateman, Jr., M.D.

Author/creator	Bateman, Wallace Bryson
Other author/creator	Parkerson, Donald Hugh, degree supervisor.
Other author/creator	East Carolina University. Department of History.
Format	Theses and dissertations and Archival & Manuscript Material
Production Info	2009.
Description	ix, 184 leaves : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm
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Subject(s)	Naval stores industry--North Carolina --Wayne County --History --19th century. Naval stores--North Carolina --Wayne County --History --19th century. Turpentine--North Carolina --Wayne County --History --19th century. North Carolina--Commerce --New York (State) --New York --History --19th century. New York (N.Y.)--Commerce --North Carolina --History --19th century.

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Summary	This thesis examines the naval stores industry in antebellum eastern North Carolina from the perspective of a Wayne County planter-merchant who participated in the boom. The core material comes from the recently discovered commercial papers of George W. Collier that included a turpentine still account book and correspondence from three commission merchants. The names listed in the account book were cross referenced with the 1850 Census of Wayne County to create a database of raw turpentine producers who traded with the still, their relative wealth, slave holding, and farm status. The commercial correspondence illuminated the business relationships between Collier and the merchants who shipped, received, and sold his naval stores. By using 1852 daily newspaper accounts of maritime activity in the port of New York, a quantitative schooner database was compiled that revealed information about shipping. North Carolina port activity, and identified the nine commission merchants who represented over 85 percent of the naval stores market in New York. By integrating these sources, this thesis provides a detailed account of how one planter-merchant turned raw turpentine into wealth during a transformative period in North Carolina history.
General note	Presented to the faculty of the Department of History.
General note	Advisor: Donald Parkerson
Dissertation note	M.A. East Carolina University 2009
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (leaves 178-184).
Genre/form	masters theses.
Genre/form	doctoral dissertations.
Genre/form	theses.
Genre/form	dissertations.
Genre/form	Academic theses.
Genre/form	History.
Genre/form	Academic theses.
Genre/form	Thèses et écrits académiques.

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