Carteret County, NC - Will of Matthew R. Gooding, 1866

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NC Archives
Military Records
Civil War
Box 76, Folder 11

[This record appears to be a copied version and probably written by the 
name at the top of the page as the notes in the last two paragraphs 
indicate]

(Fred A. Olds, Beaufort, NC, Sept 6, 1920)

Will of Matthew R. Gooding, 1866. Probated Feby term 1866, at Beaufort, NC

I. M.R. Gooding while lying at the R.R. bridge up the Ogeechee river [GA] 
July 11, 1862 do hereby give a statement of my unsettled business between 
myself and the house of John Frazier of Charleston, SC. You will find a 
balance due me of $2153.18 from the Sail ship "Gondar" & owners, I having 
been transfered from her March 17, 1862, to the "Thomas L. Wragg." The first 
voyage I made was to Wilmington NC and the amount of my freight was $130,000 
on which amount 5 per cent was due me. I went to Charleston from Wilmington 
by rail and bargained with the house of John Frazer & Co for one twentieth of 
the ship at the rate of $100,000, but made no further settlement with them. 
I then sailed from Wilmington and arrived at Nassau having on bord 136 bales 
of upland cotten, on ship's account on which my 5 per cent was due, but there 
was no settlement. 

After laying at Nassau some time I again sailed with a cargo for a Confederate
port with a cargo and arrived safe at the place from which I write this and
delivered my cargo all right, my freight awaiting to pluck $120,000. 

I have in the Public bank at Nassau 854 pounds twelve shillings; in the bank
of Adderly there $100 and 100 boxes tobacco, which cost me $3100; in the Bank
of Cape Fear at Wilmington $1000; in the bank of Capt A. Adkins of Charleston,
SC $100.

Gooding brought his vessel to Beaufort inlet some after the U.S. force had
captured Fort Macon, and was fired on by the fort, but escaped. Tradition has
it that he returned the fire from the "Wragg" but it is very doubtful that
she, a blockade-runner, was armed.

See if the Wragg was a privateer or not. Gooding died of yellow fever. His
widow at Beaufort got the money at Nassau through the Bank of England.

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