William Piper Letter, December 20, 1846
Dublin Core
Title
William Piper Letter, December 20, 1846
Subject
Antebellum Plantation Life
Description
In a brief note, the overseer Piper updates Duncan Cameron about ongoing plowing, fencing, and cleaning at Snow Hill plantation. Cotton has been sent to Henderson, NC, and flour to Raleigh, NC.
Creator
William Piper
Source
Cameron Family Papers, 1757-1978
Publisher
Photographed, transcribed, tagged, and shared in this Omeka Collection by Dr. Kevin Oliver, North Carolina State University College of Education
Date
December 20, 1846
Rights
As noted in the source collection, “copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.”
Relation
The Southern Historical Collection at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Format
PDF
Language
English
Type
Personal correspondence, letter
Identifier
series: 1.3.3, box: 42, folder: 999
Coverage
United States: North Carolina (Henderson; Snow Hill)
Text Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Paper
Files
Collection
Citation
William Piper, “William Piper Letter, December 20, 1846,” Plantation Letters, accessed October 20, 2026, https://plantationletters.org/items/show/83.