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JOHN L. MOREHEAD
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COLLECTION, 1765-1881
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UNCC MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION 90
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| Contents: |
Collection Information |
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Scope and Content Note |
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Container List |
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Size:
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.25 linear feet (55 items). |
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Cabarrus County (N.C.). |
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Mecklenburg County (N.C.). |
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| Bulk Dates: |
1850-1859. |
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| Languages: |
English. |
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| Summary: |
Deeds, surveyors's statements, and other records collected
for a title search in the 1850s relating to property in Mecklenburg and
Cabarrus counties in the vicinity of Rocky River, Mallard, Buffalo, and
Coddle creeks, probably including the land at the intersection of U.S. Highway
29 and Morehead Road, site of the Charlotte Motor Speedway. Much of this
land was originally acquired by Robert Washington Smith between 1790 and
1830. Also includes a document (1881) concerning the estate of John Motley
Morehead (1796-1866) and his land in Northampton and Halifax counties. |
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| Index Terms: |
Land titles--North Carolina--Cabarrus County--19th
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Land titles--North Carolina--Mecklenburg County--19th century. |
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Morehead, John Motley, 1796-1866. |
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| Sources: |
Gift of Southern Historical Collection, UNC at Chapel Hill,
1982. |
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Unrestricted. |
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| Copyright: |
Not held by UNC Charlotte Library. |
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| Citation: |
John L. Morehead Collection, University of North Carolina
at Charlotte Library. |
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| Contact Information: |
For more information about this collection, please contact:
Special Collections Department
J. Murrey Atkins Library
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28223-0001
E-mail: speccoll@email.uncc.edu
Telephone: (704) 687-2449
Fax: (704) 687-2232 |
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| Related Collections: |
Torrance
and Banks Family Papers. |
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| This collection is comprised of 55 documents
(1765 1881) concerning acquisition of land by Robert Washington Smith in
Mecklenburg and Cabarrus counties near Rocky River, Mallard, Coddle, and
Buffalo creeks, and present day U.S. Highway 29, and including, possibly,
land in Cabarrus County at U.S. Highway 29 and Morehead Road (site of the
Charlotte Motor Speedway). Collected by John Lindsay Morehead (1833 1901)
[see Dictionary of North Carolina Biography (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1991):
4:321], the documents reflect an apparent title search during the 1850s
of lands owned wholly or in part by the Morehead family. Comprised of deeds,
memoranda of agreement, and surveyor's statements, the documents include
originals and handwritten copies (1853). Also includes statements (1850s)
by Morehead concerning the validity of some documents. |
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| Transferral of land ownership of many land is
traced to 1765, when Henry Eustace McCulloh (also McCulloch), either as
owner or as agent for Augustus Lord Selwyn, divided the land in Mecklenburg
County (which includes present day Cabarrus County, formed from Mecklenburg
in 1792). Other owners included Edward Giles (also Gilles), Andrew Alexander,
Arthur Donalson, John Fields, Moses Alexander, Robert Archibald, Joseph
Patton, Joseph Graham, Alexander Kennedy, Nathaniel Alexander, James Frazier,
William Harris, George Stafford, R. M. Murry, Alexander McRee, Henry Houston,
Adam Meek, Jacob Hudson, James Craton, Daniel Alexander, Levi and Sarah
Russel, Nathaniel Gilmer, Andrew and Susannah Burns, and William Alexander. |
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| Some documents (1856) reflect land ownership
by John Lindsay Morehead and the sale of a portion of his property to Jeremiah
Howie, whose land adjoined Morehead's. An unrelated document (1881) from
the Guilford County superior court concerns John Motley Morehead's (1798
1866) estate and refers to land in Northampton and Halifax counties. |
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| [For more information, see: Ruth Blackwelder,
Old Charlotte and Old Mecklenburg County (1973); LeGette Blythe and Charles
Raven Brockmann, Hornets' Nest (1961); David Leroy Corbitt, The Formation
of the North Carolina Counties 1663 1943 (1950); Mary Norton Kratt, Charlotte:
Spirit of the New South (1980); and D. A. Tompkins, History of Mecklenburg
County and the City of Charlotte (1903).] |
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| SFC1:90 |
JOHN L. MOREHEAD COLLECTION |
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| OF7:1 |
JOHN L. MOREHEAD COLLECTION--OVERSIZE MATERIAL |
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