Hutchison Family Papers - Accession 19

Abstract

This collection is a valuable source on colonial life in the Carolinas, the southern antebellum plantation system, early relations with the Catawba Indians, post Civil War cotton manufacturing, especially in relation to the Rock Hill Cotton Mill established by Captain A. E. Hutchison, and the World War I era in Rock Hill. While the papers range from 1785 to 1968, the greatest part of the collection extends from the late 1780s to the early twentieth century. In addition to genealogical information, diaries, speeches, financial records, etc., located in a separate series, there are also included in the “General Correspondence and Related Papers” series such records as: last will and testament, inventory lists, certificates of indentured servants, legislative acts, (eg. 1840 Treaty with the Catawba Indians) and other similar documents. The Hutchison Family Papers consists of photocopies of the original material which was donated to the South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina (Hutchison Family Papers – SCL-MS-11057). Correspondents include Jude Grimke, A.E. Hutchison, David Hutchison, Hiram Hutchison, James Moore, John N. Morehead and Thomas Spratt.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1041/thumbnail.jp