Series 4 - McCollough-Hutchinson letter abstracts

11pp

Kerby A. Miller created his transcripts of the McCullogh-Hutchison letters from the original manuscripts held in the McCullough-Hutchinson Families Papers, 1823-1936, Rubenstein Library Manuscripts, Duke University [OCLC number 19936143].

Kerby A. Miller's excerpts and notes regarding a number of letters written by members of three Protestant (probably Presbyterian) families related by marriage - the McCulloghs, the Montgomerys, and the Hutchisons - in County Antrim, South Carolina, Illinois, and Nebraska, between 1823 and 1874.
Per Kerby A. Miller: 'The letters illustrate:

1. Social and economic conditions in rural east Ulster, 1823-58: crops, prices, wages, tenant- right, agrarian violence, emigration, and the Great Famine.
2. Local responses to political and religious developments and conflicts: e.g., the 'New Reformation'; O'Connell's campaign for Repeal of the Union; division in the Presbyterian church; etc.
3. Cultural and moral conditions in east Ulster: adultery, bastardy, violence (Hutchison).
4. Bitter intra-familial conflicts and their abusive consequences (Hutchison).
5. Farming and social conditions, generally, in among small 'planters' in rural South Carolina and the Florida frontier, and for homesteader on the Nebraska frontier.
6. The US Civil War's impact on 'loyal' or 'disloyal' immigrants.
7. Problems proving naturalization as US citizens.'

Transcripts of the letters along with Miller's extensive related research can be found in P155/26/4.