Craven County, NC - Bessie C. Carman Collection

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Bessie C. Carman Collection
New Bern, North Carolina
1746-1898; 1931
PC 390

Physical Description: 

Land patent, deeds, affidavit, statements, surveys, letters, notebooks,
31 items

Acquisition: 

Loan from Mrs. Bessie C. Carman, Chicago, Illinois and New Bern, North 
Carolina, February 29, 1948 - Letter, 1796, Irish deed, age book, and 
affidavit, July 29, 1957; 15 Beaufort County deeds, 12 miscellaneous family 
records

Description: 

Eleven deeds trace land in Beaufort County on the south side of the Pamlico 
River, near Bath, from an original grant in 1730 to John Tripp, through 
numerous owners, to Jesse Hartfield, by court sale in 1860, and from Jesse 
to James F. Hartfield, in 1868. Other deeds, surveys, affidavits, and 
statements relate to J.F. Hartfield's property known as Broak Neck in Onslow 
County (1878-1897), and two surveys of land owned by J.F. Hartfield (1898)

Miscellaneous statements give the descendants of M.C. and Mary Ann (Ellis) 
Stephens and of Jesse and Julia Taylor Hartsfield (1842). An "age book" of 
Bishop E. Dudley lists his and Elizabeth (Jones) Dudley's descendants;; it 
also includes a list of Negroes - their birth and death dates (1820-1858).
Another notebook enumerates the birth and death dates of Elizabeth A., Sarah 
S., Mrs. Eliza A. (wife of Jesse), and Jesse Hartfield

There are three letters in the collection. The earliest (1796) from Francis 
Stringer, Armagh, Ireland, to Samuel Simpson, Greenville, NC, tells of his 
fathers provision for Stringer's wife Anne of a hundred pounds a year in 
the event her husband died first. Copy of a deed from the Registry of Deeds, 
Ireland, gives the details

A letter from J.F. (?) Hartfield, April 24, l841, Lenoir County, to John 
Glasgow, requests collection of accounts for tuition of children from several 
families

The third letter is from Annie E. Hartfield, New Garden, NC, February 23, 
1873, to her brother James F. Hartfield, Catherine Lake, Onslow County, NC

Included in the collection is a certified statement (February, 1931) listing 
men employed by the Confederate government to capture deserters in eastern 
North Carolina, as recalled by J.H. Kittrell

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