CRAVEN COUNTY, NC - LETTERS - William Fulford to his brother Joseph Fulford
			      15 Mar 1836
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Contributor's Note:  This original letter is contained in the family history 
of the FULFORD family of Craven County and is in the possession of Susan Brown 
Palladino of Carrollton, Georgia, descendant of Joseph Fulford and his wife, 
Sarah HYMAN Fulford.  Mrs. Palladino is second cousin to Florence Fulford 
Moore and has graciously given her permission to publish this information on 
the Craven Archives website.


Letter to Mr. Joseph Fulford, New Bern, NC
Richmond Sumtyr (Sumter) County    March 15th 1836

Dear Brother - I write you these few lines to let you know that I am in very 
good health.  John has moved his family over in to the Chocktaw purchase.  
(H)e has him a blacksmith shop in about a half mile of where there is a town a 
building and I think he will do first rate business(.)  The country is very 
thick settled and there is no blacksmith nearer than twelve mile of us.  
(T)here is several stores in town(.)  Paul S. Delamar and Israel Sheldon has 
got a very splendid store there and they are doing very well.  (E)verything if 
(is) very high here(.)  Dear Brother I should like very well to here (hear) 
from you and also from brother & sister [Enoch, Jr., and Mary Hellen Fulford] 
and here (hear) how thing is fixed with us(.)  I would be very glad indeed if 
you would come out to Alabama and take a look at the country(.)  I think you 
would like it far better than you do North Carolina after you become seasoned 
to it(.)  If you could fetch out what negres (Negroes) that belong to us they 
would yearn (earn) us more in one year than they do in five year in North
Carolina(.) 

(P)places to write to me as soon as this arrives and direct your (over - this 
indicates a break in the letter to a second page) letter to Demoply 
(Demopolis?)(.)  Remember my love Sister and Brother and to Uncle Isaa and 
(and) his family.

I have nothing more at present But Remain your

Affectionate Brother
William Fulford
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This letter is from William (Clarence) Fulford, younger brother to Joseph 
Fulford, the oldest of the four siblings.  He refers to his brother and 
sister, who were Enoch, Jr., and Mary Hellen Fulford, and the four were 
descendants of Enoch Fulford and Ann Martin Fulford.  Enoch Fulford (Sr.) and 
(Jr.) were named for their WARD grandfathers, Colonel Enoch Ward, Sr., and 
Enoch Ward, Jr., of Onslow County.  

Uncle Isaa is evidently Isaac Hellen, who married Keziah Fulford, oldest 
sister of  Enoch Fulford.  A second sister, Sarah, married George Robertson.  
Many families left Carteret County on a wagon train around 1823; many settled 
in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi.  William, the writer of this 
letter, Enoch Jr., and apparently, Mary Hellen Fulford moved back to eastern 
North Carolina.  William and Enoch Jr. are buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery on 
the Hyman-Fulford plot in New Bern, NC.  What happened to Mary Hellen Fulford 
is unknown at this time.

I would think that the “John” referred to in this letter was John Fulford, who 
moved his family into the Chocktaw area and became a blacksmith.