Moses Turnage Papers

1824-1918, undated
Manuscript Collection #684
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Creator(s)
Turnage, Moses, 1827-1891
Physical description
0.22 Cubic Feet, 345 items, consisting of correspondence, financial records, legal materials, clippings and miscellaneous.
Preferred Citation
Moses Turnage Papers (#684), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
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ECU Manuscript Collection
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Papers (1824-1918, undated) including correspondence, financial records, legal materials, clippings, and miscellaneous.

Biographical/historical information

Moses Turnage (1827-1891) was born in Farmville, N.C. He married Emily Tyson in 1851 and together they had four children. Living primarily in the area of Marlboro, he was appointed overseer of a road in Pitt County in 1859. During the Civil War, he enlisted in 1863 and served as a private in Company 11, 75th Regiment, N.C. State Troops. In 1876 he was elected mayor of Marlboro and also received a license to retail "small measure" of spirituous liquors at his place of business in that town.

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Custodial History

September 6, 1993, 345 items; Papers of Pitt County, N.C., family, including correspondence, bills of lading, financial accounts, summonses and other legal papers, tax records, broadside, and miscellany. Gift of Mr. Les Turnage, Greenville, N.C.

Source of acquisition

Gift of Mr. Les Turnage

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Descriptions updated by Ashlyn Racine, May 2023

Copyright notice

Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.

Key terms
Personal Names
Turnage, Moses, 1827-1891
Topical
African American agricultural laborers--North Carolina--Pitt County
Agriculture--North Carolina--Greenville
Families--North Carolina--Pitt County
Mayors--North Carolina--Marlboro
Merchants--North Carolina--Pitt County
Slave records--North Carolina--Pitt County
Places
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865