Lenoir County, NC - James Herring Papers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Herring Papers Lenoir County 1764-1908 PC 179.1-3 Mf. P. 156 Physical Description: 455 Items Estates papers, wills, land grants, deeds correspondence, receipts, slave records, bonds, election return, advertisements, envelopes, pocket wallet, memorandums, etc Acquisition: Gift of Miss Sybil Hyatt, Kinston, Lenoir County, May 12, 1936. Transferred 11 weaving patterns to Museum of History after records were microfilmed, January, 1975 Description: The estate, land, business, and legal papers of Lenoir County in this collection reflect the involvement of Oliver Herring and his son James in the settlement of estates of their family and other relatives as administrator or executor Oliver Herring, by the time of his death in 1867, had disposed of most of his considerable property by gifts to his wife Nancy [Leary?], and his children James, Calvin, Stephen, Curtis, Barbara [Taylor], and Nancy. He was an executor of the estate of [his father-in-law] Jobe Leary and the large estate of Major C.R. Loftin - [Loftin family record lists him as "M.C.R. Loftin" - "Major" was not a title] Estate Papers - Lenoir County: M.C.R. Loftin, 1838-1845, 148 items, including bond, estate sale, receipts for payment of debts due to estate and owed by estate, list of slaves hired out and payments made for care of "Parrish" Negroes, 1845-1846, with a number of receipts Jobe Leary, 1840-1841, 7 items, including sale and settlement of estate, 1840-1841, and bill of complaint of heirs against executors, n.d. Ann Civil Leary, 1841, 1 item, settlement of estate John Howard, 1843, 1 item, deposition taken at the home of Oliver Herring Most of the following estates papers were administered by James Herring in Lenoir County: Miss Nancy Hall, 1855-1863, including bond, receipt for coffin, 1856 Rent receipt for Kad Plantation, 1855, to estate of Zack Davis William Davenport, 1852-1861, 5 items, including receipts, judgements sale Zach Brown, 1864, 1870, 4 items, including estate sale and widow's provision for year Cornelius Harper, 1864-1880, 19 items, including sale and settlement Oliver Herring, 1878, including tax receipts and receipt for coffin Nancy Cunningham, 1879-1886, 8 items including tax receipts for Trent and Woodington townships, receipt for coffin, receipted bill from nurse Nancy Herring, 1880-1894, 15 items, including bill of sale for Kent Land to John B. Parker, medical bills and receipt for burial case, 1889, foreclosure of mortgage on lands of F.P. Outlaw, Craven County, 1891, judgment, J.B. Parker and F.P. Outlaw, 1892 Emily Herring, 1897-1901, 6 items including settlement and tax receipts James Herring, 1894, 1 item, list of debts Wills - Lenoir County: William Davenport, 1838 Jobe Leary, 1840 Oliver Herring, 1867/2 Emily Herring, 1898 Land Grant - Craven County: John (Buck) Tilman, 1764 Land Grants - Dobbs County: Zenas Parker, 1769 Joshua Nunn, 1775, 1777 Samuel Hearon, 1784 Francis Erwin, 1784 Land Grants - Lenoir County: Stephen Herring, 1805 Richard Miller, 1805 Deed - Dobbs County: Martin Caswell to Benjamin Coleman, 1785 Deeds - Lenoir County: Gabriel Parker to Stephen Hearing, 1799 Richard Miller to Stephen Hearing, 1806 Francis and Alcey Nunn to Oliver Hearing, 1820 William Hearing, 1828 Council and Barbara Gooding to Oliver Hearing, 1828 William J. Hunter to Edwin B. Cox, trustees of Ann Herring, 1857 William Fields, sheriff of Lenoir County, to Oliver Herring, 1859 James and Beedy Deaver to Franklin P. Harper, 1879 Deeds - Craven County: Julie E. Outlaw to Oliver Herring, 1874 Oliver Herring to Nancy Herring, 1877 John B. Parker to Nancy Herring, 1880/2 John B. and Martha Parker to F.P. Outlaw, 1883 Slave Papers: 1836-1861, 17 items, including receipts for maintenance of several Negro women and their children, 1846-1847 Bill of sale for $1400 purchase of slave named Brookin, ca. 37-year old blacksmith, sold by Elizabeth Herring in 1856 Correspondence: 1890-1906, 6 items, including a letter of March 15, 1890, to James Herring from his brother Calvin from Meadow Creek Ranch, Grant County, New Mexico, concerning the estate of their sister Nancy Two letters of 1892 from an attorney in New Bern to A.J. Loftin concerning the Parker/Outlaw suit A letter of 1908 is from L.H. Hardy, a minister in Reidsville, to Mrs. Emma Waller Business Papers - Consist primarily of receipts: Oliver Herring, 1844-1876, 22 items (notes, tax receipts) James Herring, 1856-1894, 70 items, including tax receipts for Woodington Township, Lenoir County Miscellaneous receipts, 1810-1892, 27 items Civil War Papers - 1863-1865, 16 items: Includes 1864 Confederate bonds for Mrs. E.J. Davenport, Blackledge Harper, Hardy Brown, John Brown, James Davis, S. Harper, H(?) Cunningham Receipts and estimate for tax-in-kind for James Herring, December, 1863 Parole pass of Pvt. Jas. Herring, Co. K, 61st N.C.T., Greensboro, May 1, 1865 "Oath and parole required by G.O. 49 for a Loyal Citizen of the United States, residing in a State rebellion ..." for Oliver Herring, Kinston, April 5, 1865 Oath of allegiance to the U.S., September 9, 1865, for Oliver Herring There are also four authorizations by the Wardens of the Poor for allotment of corn and money to destitute families of soldiers, 1864-1865 Miscellaneous Items: Election return (rough) for Woodington Township, Lenoir County for the election of November, 1890 Sheriff's and commissioner's papers (2) concerning the cleaning of the canal on Cherry Tree Creek, 1891 Advertisements for Classical and Agricultural School, Valle Crucis, Ashe County, 1845 [newspaper fragment] Brochure for a patent medicine, [Botanic] Blood Balm Company, Atlanta, 1885 Brochure, 3 pp. for Pomona Hill Nurseries, Pomona near Greensboro, 1889, (planting and maintenance of fruit trees) Broadside, Pridgen & Cox, Kinston, dry-goods merchant, 1893 Wayne County deed of 1853, W.S.G. Andrews of Wayne County to Caleb Nelson of Pitt County, $110 for lot #118 corner of William and Elm Streets, Goldsboro, witnessed by Charles J. Nelson Agreement signed by C.J. Nelson to build a house on lot #118 with specific dimensions and stated price; receipts for finished house Other miscellaneous items are recipes for ink (extract of logwood, bichromate potash, warm rain water), salve (sassafras, parsley top and root, butter and mutton suet), medicine (rum, black snake root, apple vinegar, 70-80 large new nails, sugar, singer), and for washing clothes (sal soda, unslacked lime) A few scattered notations on chromatic scales, poem (Emma's Dumb Companion, 1876), and hymns (verses to "Come all who are neulights indeed") Envelopes (6) addressed to James Herring Kinston, Mrs. Susan Spiner (?), Sandyfoundation, Blackledge Harper, Sandy Foundation, and A.J. Loftin, Kinston Recorded on microfilm and transferred to the Museum of History were eleven WEAVING DRAFTS: "The Flowers of Leban (?)" by Elizabeth Nelson," "Honey Comb and Satin Strip," "Huckback and Dimity," "Squares and Diamonds," and "Diamonds" by Mary Nelson, "Dimity" by Fanny Malone of Person County One draft is unidentified; four are identified only by title: "Draper," "Chain and Compass," "Rattle Snake," (cross the two middle treddles), "Blooming Leaf," and "Draught of Diamonds" Four leather pocket memorandum books contain little information on the few surviving pages. In one of the books dated 1787 appear the names of William Beck(?), Elizabeth Roberts, John Torrans, S. Loftin, Francis Erwin, John Harper An isolated receipt was probably in this notebook at one time: "Mr. Fra. Loftin [two] thousand nine hundred ninety seven pounds of pork towards his note to me, s/R. Caswell" A handsomely tooled leather wallet-notebook contains only a receipt from Oliver Hearing to Job Leary for money belonging to James Hearing, March 1, 1845 Two smaller notebooks in exceedingly poor condition are dated (1) 1835-1836, 1900-1928 with Silas Turner, Thomas Turner, Oliver Hearing, Emma S. Waller, DeLeon S. Spaym, Samuel Sutherland listed and (2) 1859, 1865 with W.C. Turner, A.(?) Rouse, E. Goodman, James Grady. In this latter notebook is a statement of Mary Parker's tax listing in 1861 to James Herring, Justice of the Peace, (land 370, valuation $1315, blacks 5, one buggy $50) Arrangement of Papers: P.C. 179.1 Estates Papers 179.2 Wills, Land Grants, Deeds, Slave Papers 179.3 Correspondence, Business Accounts, Miscellaneous Finding Aids: Main Entry Card Geographic Card Lenoir County Autograph Cards None Subject Cards BAPTISTS, Freewill CASWELL, RICHARD CRAFTS - Weaving CRAVEN COUNTY, Land Grants and Deeds EDUCATION, Private ELECTION RETURN, 1890 HEALTH AND MEDICINE Patent Medicine, Recipes for salves, etc. LENOIR COUNTY, Estates Papers, Land Grants, Deeds, Wills POMONA HILL NURSERIES RECIPES, Ink, Salve, Tonic, etc. WAYNE COUNTY, Goldsboro Compiled Genealogies File Brown, Zack Coleman, Benjamin Davenport, William Erwin, Francis Harper, Cornelius Herring, Samuel Herring, Oliver and James Herring, Stephen Leary, Jobe Loftin, M.C.R. Miller, Richard Nelson, Caleb Nunn, Joshua Parker, Zenas See also: Compiled Genealogies LOFTIN FAMILY Finding Aid completed 20 January 1975 by Ellen Z. McGrew ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by North Carolina Archives and History ___________________________________________________________________