| Scope and content |
Papers (1824-1918, undated) including correspondence, financial records, legal materials, clippings, and miscellaneous. Financial correspondence reflects Turnage's trade with commission merchants, grocers and wholesalers in liquors from Farmville to New York, especially Baltimore and Norfolk. Financial materials (1833-1912) include bills, receipts, and promissory notes for a variety of items of an agricultural nature. |
| Access restriction | No access restrictions. |
| Cite as |
Moses Turnage Papers (#684), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
| Terms of use | Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Gift of Mr. Les Turnage. |
| Biographical note | Moses Turnage (1827-1891) was born in Farmville, N.C. He married Emily Tyson in 1851 and together they had four children. In 1876 he was elected mayor of Marlboro, N.C. |
