Chowan County, NC - Tillie Bond Collection

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North Carolina State Archives - Private Manuscript Collections

Collection: BOND, TILLIE - COLLECTION
Edenton, N. C.
1690-1828
P.C.16.1-2

Physical Description: 224 items

Deeds, grants, letters, bonds, wills, estates papers, court records, 
powers of attorney, Vice-Admiralty papers, accounts, commissioners' 
orders, appointments, receipts, committee report, surveys and plats, 
and other miscellaneous papers

Acquisition: From Biennial Reports  

1912-1914, a collection of miscellaneous colonial papers, numbering 207, 
received from Miss Tillie Bond of Edenton, N. C.; 1914-1916, 24 documents 
of the colonial period, received from the late Miss Matilda Bond, Edenton.

Description: 

This collection primarily consists of early deeds and grants for the 
Albemarle County area. The majority of the land records are for the 1690-1760 
period. Although many of them concern land in the Edenton-Matacomeck (spelling 
varies, now Queen Anne) Creek area of Chowan County. There are also deeds 
and/or grants for Bertie, Tyrrell, Currituck, and Perquimans counties. 

Many of the grants contain signatures of such noted figures as Charles Eden, 
Tobias Knight, Nathaniel Chevin, Thomas Pollock, Richard Sanderson, William 
Reed, John Lovick, John Blount, Edward Mosely, Richard Everard, Gabriel  
Johnston, and Arthur Dobbs, among others.

Other significant items in the collection include copies of wills for Edward 
Pagett (1728), Edmund Gale (1738), James Craven (1755), and Thomas Hodgson 
(1772), and papers relating to the estates of Elizabeth Padget (1745), Samuel 
Padget (1746), John Hodgson (1747-1750), Robert Halton (1749-1750), James 
Flood (1750), Samuel Hodgson (1752), James Craven (1755), Thomas Barker (1788), 
and Penelope Barker (1794).  

Correspondence is confined to the latter half of the eighteenth century and 
the early years of the nineteenth. 

Several letters (one of which is in French) were written to Thomas Barker 
while in Paris. Included in his correspondence after returning to Edenton is 
a 1779 request from Joseph Hewes asking if he will accept election to Congress.

Miscellaneous items include a number of accounts and receipts, bonds of 
indebtedness, guardian bonds, bond for James Davis as printer (1763), court 
papers, powers of attorney, district treasurer's account (1759), commissioners' 
orders concerning Port of Roanoke (1762-1763), Governor Tryon's appointment of 
Thomas Hodgson as attorney for the crown (1769, 1770), New York Vice-Admiralty 
Court paper concerning captured American vessel (1778), committee report 
recommending admittance of Thomas Barker as citizen (1779), land plats and 
surveys, conversion table for gold coins (Great Britain, Portugal, France, 
and Spain-1793), circular concerning British [Tory] claims (1800), letters 
and documents (majority of which are in foreign languages) concerning  
reimbursement for loss of brig "Jane" (1811-1812), and other miscellaneous
material.

Arrangement of Papers:

P.C. 16.1 - papers, 1690-1755
     16.2 - papers, 1756-1828, n.d. 

Finding Aids:

     Main Entry Card
     Geographic Card
        Edenton, N. C.
     Autograph Cards
        Blake, Dan[ie]l
        Craven, James
        E[elbeck], M[ontford]
        Elmsly, Peter
        Grandin, Dan[iel]
        Hathaway, Ja[me]s
        Hewes, Joseph
        Littlejohn, Thomas B.
        McCulloh, H[enry] E[ustace]
     Date Cards
        1690-1699
        1713-1719
        1720-1729
        1730-1739
        1740-1749
        1750-1759
        1760-1769
        1770-1779
        1780-1789
        1790-1799
        1810-1819
     Subject Cards
        Land Records - Albemarle region
        Barker, Penelope
        Barker, Thomas
        Craven, James
        Flood, James
        Gale, Edmund
        Halton, Robert
        Hodgson, John
        Hodgson, Samuel
        Hodgson, Thomas
        Padget, Elizabeth
        Padget, Samuel
        Padgett, Edward 

Finding Aid completed by Don Lennon, 14 March 1966.