Thomas Case Collection

Collection

Identifier: SM 80-45

Staff Only

Content Description

The collection consists of the papers of Thomas Case, who served as a Justice of the Peace and Chairman of the Creek Committee of Guilford County, North Carolina, in the late nineteenth century.

The collection is divided into correspondence, bills and receipts, legal papers, tax papers, and miscellaneous items.

The correspondence concerns official business, except for a fragment of a personal letter from an unknown author to his mother. The bills and receipts are of a general business nature. The legal papers include judgments, summons, and complaints. The tax papers include tax lists for Guilford County and receipts for taxes received by Thomas Case.

The miscellaneous items are advertisement circulars, blank tax sales notices, and the front page of the January 16, 1922, Greensboro Patriot newspaper.

Dates

Creation: 1846 - 1921

Conditions Governing Use

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