W. H. and J. T. Moffett Papers. New Market, Tenn. 1830s-1880s (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John Armistead) (Account books).
Scope and Contents
W. H. and J. T. Moffett Papers include store accounts, papers, and books , ca. 1830s-1880s, from New Market, Tenn. Most are from W. H. Moffett’s mercantile business, including partnerships with J. S. Moffett, General William Brazelton, and his son J. T. Moffett. Several other subjects include East Tennessee & Virginia Railroad; New Market area; account books; coal kiln; Panther Springs; tax receipts; health and medicine; Moffett & Shields Iron Founders; Andrew McMillan; Wilson & Hankins; John Baker; deeds; Holston College; Female Academy; Ohio; maps; travel; stock certificates; R. R. Confederate States; A. L. Bethel; Arkansas; copy books; Coleman House; diaries; journals; songs; music; Ellen C. Moffett; Charles Janeway; wheat; W. Galbraith; R. M. McPherson; Scott’s Infantry Tactics III; Civil War; John P. Lynch; Virginia Military Institute; Branch Bank of Tennessee; autograph books; Bible Society of the Confederate States; Samuel Cunningham; J. C. Smith; Jacob Peck; Masons; Masonic Mutual Relief Association of Tennessee; Samuel N. Fain; John Jarnagin; W .E. Caldwell; Mrs. Nancy Gillespie; Thomas Northern; Thomas J. Earnest; recipes; Annual Register for Synodial Female College; business cards; scale; newspapers; National Intelligencer; Knoxville Register. Photocopy of Moffett Family Bible entries.
Dates
- Creation: 1860s-1880s
Conditions Governing Access
Material is available for research. Prior arrangement MUST be made by contacting the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection at mcclung-archivist@knoxlib.org
Extent
11 boxes
General
See also: Sallie McDowell Moffett Papers (MSC 788)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Annual Register for Synodical Female College
- Arkansas
- Artifacts
- Autograph albums
- Bethel, A. L.
- Bible Society of the Confederate States
- Bibles
- Branch Bank of Tennessee
- Business cards
- Charles Janeway
- Clubs and organizations
- Coal kiln
- Coleman House
- copy Books
- Cunningham, Samuel Blair, 1797-1867
- Deeds
- Diaries
- Earnest, Thomas J.
- East Tennessee & Virginia Railroad
- Ellen C. Moffett
- Female Academy
- General William Brazelton
- Health and medicine
- Holston College
- J. C. Smith
- J. S. Moffett
- J. T. Moffett
- J. T. Moffett
- Jacob Peck
- John Baker
- John Jarnagin
- John P. Lynch
- journals
- Knoxville Register
- Ledgers and account books
- Maps
- Masonic Mutual Relief Association of Tennessee
- Masons
- McMillan, Andrew
- Mercantile business
- Moffett & Shields Iron Founders
- Mrs. Nancy Gillespie
- Music
- National Intelligencer
- Northern, Thomas
- Panther Springs
- R. M. McPherson
- R.R. Confederate States
- Railroads
- Recipes
- Samuel N. Fain
- Scale
- Scott’s Infantry Tactics III
- Songs
- Stock certificates
- Tax receipts
- Tennessee History Civil War, 1861-1865
- Travel
- Virginia Military Institute
- W. E. Caldwell
- W. Galbraith
- W. H. Moffett
- Wheat
- Wilson & Hankins
- Newspapers
- Title
- W. H. and J. T. Moffett Papers. New Market, Tenn. 1830s-1880s (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John Armistead) (Account books).
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Repository Details
Part of the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection Repository
601 S Gay Street
3rd floor
Knoxville Tennessee 37902 United States
865.215.8814
mcclung-archivist@knoxlib.org
