Wayne County, NC - Personal Collections at the NC Archives ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: Charles Brantley Aycock (1859-1912) Collection Years: 1880-1959 Call Number: PC.50 Location: 3B MARS Id: 559 (Group) Genres / Forms: Correspondence, Plans (drawings), Letter books, Transcriptions, Clippings, Speeches Quantity: 2 Volume(s) Scope / Contents: Papers of Aycock, Goldsboro lawyer, governor (1901-1905), and candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1912. His letter book while district attorney for the U.S. Circuit Court (1893-1897) refers to various cases, many involving illegal stills. Other correspondence (1889-1912) includes notes from President Theodore Roosevelt (1902, 1906) and letters from H. G. Connor, Jr., Thomas J. Jarvis, Clyde R. Hoey, R. B. Glenn, Lee S. Overman, Clarence Poe, and Frank H. Stedman. Correspondence of 1911-1912 and a campaign letter book contain discussion of the type of campaign desired; agreement to a primary election with W. W. Kitchen, F. M. Simmons, and Walter Clark; and response to charges that Aycock drank excessively. Drafts of speeches include two supporting disfranchisement of the Negro; letters (1902-1912) from Aycock to son-in-law Clarence Poe include one about lynchings (1903). Material collected by Poe and R. D. W. Connor, coauthors of The Life and Speeches of Charles Brantley Aycock (Garden City, N.J., 1912), includes their correspondence with Thomas J. Jarvis, Julius I. Foust, P. M. Pearsall, and J. Y. Joyner; many recollections of Aycock by friends and family; speeches by and about Aycock; and transcripts of Aycock letters concerning Seaboard Air Line strike (1901), racial superiority (1903), railroad rates (1908), protective tariffs (1909), a Supreme Court decision (1909), and compulsory education (1909-1910). There are also transcriptions from a court case in which Aycock represented the American Tobacco Company (1911); clippings, one reporting the Wright brothers' success (Dec. 18, 1903); material relating to Aycock memorials; and architects drawings of the restored Aycock birthplace. Index Terms: Geographic Names: Goldsboro Subjects: Governors Lawyers Electioneering Legislators Circuit Courts Law Liquor Laws Stills Campaigns Illegality Alcoholic Beverages Drinking of Alcoholic Beverages Blacks Voters Voters, Registration of Lynching Labor Disputes Strikes and Lockouts Race Discrimination Racism Railroads Rates Tariff Lawsuits Actions and Defenses Airplanes Aeronautics Memorials Birthplaces Primaries Architectural Drawing Presidents Historians Education THE LIFE AND SPEECHES OF CHARLES BRANTLEY AYCOCK Corporate Names: Seaboard Air Line American Tobacco Company United States Congress Personal Names: Aycock, Charles Brantley Roosevelt, Theodore Connor, Henry Groves Jarvis, Thomas Jordan Hoey, Clyde Roark Glenn, Robert Broadnax Overman, Lee S. Poe, Clarence Hamilton Connor, Robert Digges Wimberly Stedman, Frank H. Kitchen, W. W. Simmons, Furnifold McLendel Clark, Walter Foust, Julius I. Pearsall, P. M. Joyner, James Yadkin Wright, Orville Wright, Wilbur Note: Quantity is 2 letter books and approximately 900 items. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: Fred W. Bonitz Papers Years: 1893-1921 Call Number: MfP.52 Location: MFR MARS Id: 2562 (Group) Genres / Forms: Diaries, Clippings, Letters, Reminiscences Quantity: 1 REEL (25 FEET) Scope / Contents: Diary of Mary E. Bonitz of Goldsboro, recording local and family events (1917-1920); and notes on Bonitz births and deaths, 1896-1913. Also newspaper clippings in German and English describing life in Wilmington and Goldsboro before and during the Civil War; unsigned letter to the Ladies Journal concerning hostile reception given German and other immigrants in Goldsboro in the 1850s; and unidentified reminiscences in German of the Civil War in the South. Index Terms: Geographic Names: Goldsboro Wilmington Subjects: Births (Vital Statistics) Deaths (Vital Statistics) German English Civil War, 1861-1865 Germans Immigrants LADIES JOURNAL Manners and Customs Cities and Towns Personal Names: Bonitz, Fred W. Bonitz, Mary E. Bonitz Family ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: James Boon (b. 1808) Papers Years: 1829-1854 Call Number: PC.99 Location: 3B MARS Id: 608 (Group) Genres / Forms: Correspondence, Advertisements, Recommendations, Agreements, Notes, Estimates Quantity: 192 Item(s) Scope / Contents: Correspondence (1839-1851) and papers of Boon, unlettered free Negro carpenter of Louisburg and Raleigh, including his release from apprenticeship (1829); letters of recommendation from employers; letter of protection for Boon (1848); business letters, including three from brother about business in Wilmington and Goldsboro, slave and free Negroes hired by Boon, and protection required for free Negroes (1848); and a few personal letters, including two from his common-law slave wife in Louisburg about domestic matters, her owners, and her marriage. Also in collection are letters and rental agreement concerning Boon's property in Louisburg; some Franklin Co. court papers; bills for children's tuition; work and pay records for Boon and his employees; estimates, sketches, and notes on buildings; and advertising card for Carolina Hotel, Wilmington (n.d.). Index Terms: Geographic Names: Raleigh Louisburg Wilmington Goldsboro Franklin County Subjects: Carpenters Free Blacks Freedmen Blacks Afro-Americans Marriage Women Black Business Enterprises Business Family Slaveholders Apprenticeship Payments Corporate Names: Carolina Hotel (Wilmington) Personal Names: Boon, James ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: E.B. Borden (1831-1918) Paper Years: 1887 Call Number: PC.344 Location: 3B MARS Id: 854 (Group) Genres / Forms: Letters Quantity: 1 Item(s) Scope / Contents: Letter of Edwin Brownrigg Borden, Goldsboro businessman, to D. M. Bain regarding appointment by governor of directors of the State Hospital for the Insane. Index Terms: Geographic Names: Goldsboro Subjects: Governors State Hospitals Psychiatric Hospitals Appointment to Office Directors, Boards of Businessmen Corporate Names: North Carolina State Hospital for the Insane Personal Names: Borden, Edwin Brownrigg Bain, D. M. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: Thomas Bragg (1810-1872) Papers Years: 1854-1871 Call Number: PC.348 Location: 3B MARS Id: 858 (Group) Genres / Forms: Letters, Recommendations, Invitations, Reports, Petitions Quantity: 64 Item(s) Scope / Contents: Papers of Bragg, governor (1855-1859), congressman, and Confederate attorney general. Postelection letters (1854) contain recommendations for political offices, particularly keeper of public arms in New Bern, made by W. W. Holden and other Democrats; invitations; report on student at Masonic Institute, Germanton; and petition for pardon of two Rockingham Co. offenders. Also photocopy of letter from court in Hanover Co., Va., concerning confinement of Duplin Co. man charged with aiding escape of slave in Wayne Co. (1858). Later letters (1866-1871) from Bragg, William Barringer, Asa Biggs, Thomas P. Devereux, William Eaton, Jr., Henry W. Fries, Kenneth Rayner, Thomas Ruffin, Jr., David Schenck, and others refer to his Raleigh law practice and several state supreme court cases. Subjects include difficulties with currency and promissory notes during the Civil War, saltpeter works, Holden and the Democrats (1869), and revenue possibilities for town of Salem (1870). Index Terms: Geographic Names: New Bern Rockingham County New Hanover County (Va.) Duplin County Raleigh Salem Wayne County Subjects: Governors Congressmen Attorneys General Patronage, Political Appointment to Office Local Officials and Employees Arms Politics Politics, Practical Students Courts Fugitive Slaves Slaves Blacks Crime and Criminals Lawyers Law Offices Lawsuits Supreme Courts Supreme Court Cases Civil War, 1861-1865 Cities and Towns Saltpeter Manufactures Money Promissory Notes Corporate Names: Confederate States of America United States Congress Democratic Party Masonic Institute (Germanton) Personal Names: Bragg, Thomas Holden, William Woods Barringer, William Biggs, Asa Devereux, Thomas P. Eaton, William, Jr. Fries, Henry W. Rayner, Kenneth Ruffin, Thomas, Jr. Schenck, David ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: Augustus Clewell Letters Years: 1862-1882 Call Number: PC.1496 Location: 3B MARS Id: 2006 (Group) Genres / Forms: Letters, Cards Quantity: 40 Item(s) Scope / Contents: Papers of Clewell, typesetter, later doctor and druggist, and private in Co. E, 21st Regt. NCT, and in Co. B, 1st Battalion Sharp Shooters (9th Battalion N.C. Sharp Shooters). Letters to family in Salem and Thomasville (Glen Anna Female Seminary) describe Jackson's Shenandoah Valley campaign (1862) and the Battle of Winchester; civilian life in Raleigh and concern about despotism of Confederate government (1863); camp at Kinston and assignment as typesetter for State Journal in Goldsboro; Early's Shenandoah Valley campaign (1864); and camp at Petersburg (1864). Postwar letters concern settlers and Wyandotte Indians around Kansas City, Mo. (1866), and starting practice as pharmacist and physician in Baltimore (1878). Three letters are from Dr. Theodore F. Keebler about opening for a doctor at Bethania (1870-1871). Printed items include his membership card in the Raleigh Typographical Society, 1864. Index Terms: Geographic Names: Salem Thomasville Raleigh Petersburg (Va.) Kansas City (Mo.) Baltimore (Md.) Bethania Goldsboro Kinston Shenandoah Valley (Va.) Subjects: Physicians Privates Soldiers Cities and Towns Military Camps Civil War, 1861-1865 Pharmacists Printers Indians Settlers Membership Military Campaigns Generals Manners and Customs Winchester (Va.), 2nd Battle of, 1863 Criticism Corporate Names: Twenty-first Regiment, Company E, North Carolina Troops First Battalion Sharp Shooters, Company B Ninth Battalion North Carolina Sharp Shooters Glen Anna Female Seminary Raleigh Typographical Society Confederate States of America STATE JOURNAL (Goldsboro) Personal Names: Clewell, Augustus Keebler, Theodore F. Clewell Family Jackson, Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Early, Jubal Anderson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: James D. Crozer Papers Years: 1865 Call Number: MfP.8 Location: MFR MARS Id: 2518 (Group) Genres / Forms: Letters Quantity: 1 REEL (10 FEET) Scope / Contents: Letters (March-May, 1865) of Captain Crozer, 26th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, U.S. Army, written from encampments in Fayetteville, Goldsboro, and Raleigh. There are also descriptions of the burning and looting of Columbia, S.C., by Union troops, looting on plantations in North Carolina, skirmishes with Confederate forces, attitude of Union soldiers toward Negroes, and joyous reception of freedom by the blacks. Also descriptions of the countryside and places visited in Raleigh, such as the Lunatic Asylum and the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind School. Originals are in the Museum of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. Index Terms: Geographic Names: Fayetteville Goldsboro Columbia (S. C.) Raleigh Subjects: Captains Civil War, 1861-1865 Union Soldiers Skirmishing Cities and Towns Blacks Emotions Military Camps Columbia (S. C.), Burning of, 1865 Pillage Plantations Liberty Emancipation Freedmen Corporate Names: United States. Army Twenty-sixth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, First Division, U. S. Army Confederate States of America Lunatic Asylum (Raleigh) Deaf, Dumb, and Blind School (Raleigh) Personal Names: Crozer, James D. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: Junius Davis (1845-1916) Papers Years: 1861, 1898 Call Number: PC.1086 Location: 3B MARS Id: 1596 (Group) Genres / Forms: Letters, Lists Quantity: 2 Item(s) Scope / Contents: Duplicate kept by Adj. Thomas Hill of his letter written by order of Col. H. N. Howard (39th Regt. N.C. Militia) to N.C. Adj. Gen. J. F. Hoke announcing formation of the "Brunswick Guards," offering their services to the governor (Apr. 25, 1861), and listing officers and men. Also letter of transmittal from Dr. Hill in Goldsboro to Mr. Davis (1898). Index Terms: Geographic Names: Goldsboro Subjects: Colonels Adjutants Governors Officers Soldiers Civil War, 1861-1865 Adjutants General Physicians Corporate Names: Thirty-ninth Regiment, North Carolina Militia Brunswick Guards Confederate States of America Personal Names: Davis, Junius Hill, Thomas Howard, H. N. Hoke, John Franklin Hill, Dr. Davis, Mr. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: William L. DeRosset Collection Years: 1861-1904 Call Number: PC.823 Location: 3B MARS Id: 1333 (Group) Genres / Forms: Letters, Catalogues, Reports Quantity: 13 Item(s) Scope / Contents: Civil War papers collected by Colonel DeRosset of Wilmington, including papers (1861-1863) of Rev. Alfred A. Watson, chaplain of 2nd Regt. NCST and chaplain to hospitals at Goldsboro, with appointments and letter about his position, pay, and privileges; report by commanding officer Maj. S. H. Thurston to Governor Vance on actions and casualties of the 3rd Regt. NCST at Sharpsburg (Sept., 1862); statement by Maj. James Reilley detailing the last hours at Ft. Fisher before its capture, during which time he was in command; and letters (1902) to DeRosset from retired Union soldier, returning warrant captured in 1862. Also DeRosset's military service record; catalog of relies in possession of Cape Fear Chapter, UDC, Wilmington; and newspaper clippings. Index Terms: Geographic Names: Goldsboro Wilmington Fort Fisher Subjects: Civil War, 1861-1865 Colonels Clergy Chaplains, Military Hospitals Officers Majors Governors Battle Casualties Hospitals Payment Sharpsburg (Md.), Battle of, 1862 Command of Troops Union Soldiers Military Service Records Military Warrants Fortification Sieges Souvenirs (Keepsakes) Fort Fisher, Battle of, 1865 Capitulations, Military Corporate Names: Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina State Troops, 3rd Regiment United Daughters of the Confederacy, Cape Fear Chapter Personal Names: DeRosset, William L. Watson, Alfred A. Thurston, S. H. Vance, Zebulon Baird Reilley, James ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: William T. Dortch Papers Years: 1849-1850, 1864 Call Number: PC.462 Location: 3B MARS Id: 972 (Group) Genres / Forms: Letters, Notes, Genealogies, Biographies Quantity: 5 Item(s) Scope / Contents: Letters written by Dortch in Goldsboro to book dealers in Philadelphia about law books; his passport to travel in the Confederacy as senator from North Carolina (1864); and genealogical and biographical notes on Dortch. Index Terms: Geographic Names: Goldsboro Philadelphia (Pa.) Subjects: Books Travel Senators Booksellers and Bookselling Lawyers Textbooks Corporate Names: Confederate States of America Personal Names: Dortch, William T. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: Benjamin Grady Collection Years: 1756-1853, 1909 Call Number: PC.521 Location: 3B MARS Id: 1031 (Group) Genres / Forms: Contracts, Wills, Letters, Lists, Receipts, Inventories Quantity: 20 Item(s) Scope / Contents: Photocopies collected by B. F. Grady of Clinton, including wills of John Sampson (1783), Penelope Clinton (1814), Vice-President William R. King of North Carolina and Alabama (1853), and their relatives; a quitrent receipt (1756); list of Lieutenant Wilkinson's Company, 10th Regt. (1782); inventory of John L. Sampson's estate (1789); and a Wayne Co. marriage contract between George Kornegay and Mourning Wiggan (1802). Also letter from Grady concerning President Lincoln's attitudes toward slavery (1909). Index Terms: Geographic Names: Alabama Wayne County Clinton Subjects: Slavery Administration of Estates Presidents Vice-Presidents Marriage Quitrents American Revolution, 1775-1783 Corporate Names: Tenth Regiment, North Carolina (1782) Personal Names: Grady, Benjamin F. Sampson, John Clinton, Penelope King, William Rufus de Vane Wilkinson, Lieutenant Sampson, John L. Kornegay, George Wiggan, Mourning Lincoln, Abraham Sampson Family Clinton Family King Family ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: Mrs. H. Clifford Green Collection Years: n.d. Call Number: PC.531 Location: 3B MARS Id: 1041 (Group) Genres / Forms: Narrative Quantity: 1 Item(s) Scope / Contents: Typed story by Mildred Edmundson based on episodes in the life of her grandmother, Mrs. Susan Jones Edmundson (d. 1912), wife of Jack Edmundson of Bullhead Plantation in Greene Co. and schoolteacher in Greene, Johnston, and Wayne counties from 1866 to 1912. Index Terms: Geographic Names: Bullhead Plantation Greene County Johnston County Wayne County Subjects: Teachers Schools Reminiscing Personal Names: Green, H. Clifford, Mrs. Edmundson, Mildred Edmundson, Susan Jones Edmundson, Jack Edmundson Family Jones Family ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: John A. Green Papers Years: 1832-1856 Call Number: PC.532 Location: 3B MARS Id: 1042 (Group) Genres / Forms: Letters, Agreements, Accounts, Bills (invoices), Powers of attorney Quantity: 11 Item(s) Scope / Contents: Papers of John A. Green, Wayne Co. lawyer and clerk of court, including letters to his younger brother; letters (1842-1850) from Mississippi regarding care of his ward and the ward's slave; rental agreement for ward's land and 24 slaves (1840); powers of attorney; accounts; and bill of expenses for journey from Goldsboro to Baltimore and return (1854). Index Terms: Geographic Names: Wayne County Mississippi Goldsboro Baltimore (Md.) Subjects: Lawyers Courts Clerks of County Court Travel Slaves Blacks Guardian and Ward Land Rental Property Brothers and Sisters Expenses Personal Names: Green, John A. Green Family ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: Nathanael Greene (1742-1786) Papers Years: 1781, 1782 Call Number: PC.534 Location: 3B MARS Id: 1044 (Group) Genres / Forms: Manuscripts Quantity: 2 Item(s) Scope / Contents: Manuscript copy of General Greene's orders of the day, Mar. 16, 1781, including assessment of previous day's action at Guilford Court House and commendation of certain commanders and units. Also copy of statement by Gen. Anthony Wayne and others on rearrangement of officers in reorganized units. Index Terms: Geographic Names: Guilford County Guilford Court House Subjects: Generals American Revolution, 1775-1783 Command of Troops Officers Guilford Court House, Battle of, 1781 Milita Personal Names: Greene, Nathaniel Wayne, Anthony ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: Ira Heath Papers Years: 1864-1865 Call Number: PC.581 Location: 3B MARS Id: 1091 (Group) Genres / Forms: Permits, Furloughs Quantity: 3 Item(s) Scope / Contents: Sick furlough from hospital at Wilson and furlough from Goldsboro medical board granted Private Heath of the 5th Battalion, Junior Reserves; and a Federal pass granted at Kinston for Heath and his mother. Index Terms: Geographic Names: Wilson Goldsboro Kinston Subjects: Hospitals Civil War, 1861-1865 Privates Soldiers Leave of Absence Diseases Health Boards Medical Care Military Passes Corporate Names: Confederate States of America Fifth Battalion, Junior Reserves Personal Names: Heath, Ira Heath Family ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: Thomas Henderson Papers Years: 1810-1811 Call Number: PC.19 Location: 3B MARS Id: 528 (Group) Genres / Forms: Histories, Biographies, Reports Quantity: 20 Item(s) Scope / Contents: Reports on counties of Ashe, Caswell, Chatham, Duplin, Edgecombe, Franklin, Greene, Lenoir, Moore, Rockingham, Stokes and Surry, and Wayne, and towns of Beaufort and Portsmouth, solicited by Henderson, editor of the Star (Raleigh), for a series of articles. Locally written, they include information on geography, history, population and leading men, agriculture, manufacturing, commerce, religion, education, and social life. Also descriptions of Liberty Hall Academy and Newton Academy in Buncombe Co., and biography of William Augustus Richards, tutor at UNC. Index Terms: Geographic Names: Ashe County Caswell County Chatham County Duplin County Durham County Franklin County Greene County Lenoir County Moore County Rockingham County Stokes County Surry County Wayne County Beaufort Portsmouth Buncombe County Subjects: Editors Newspapers Universities and Colleges Agriculture Manufacturing Religion Manners and Customs Education Corporate Names: STAR (Raleigh) University of North Carolina Liberty Hall Academy (Buncombe Co.) Newton Academy (Buncombe Co.) Personal Names: Richards, William Augustus Henderson, Thomas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: James Herring Papers Years: 1764-1928 Call Number: PC.179 Location: 3B MARS Id: 688 (Group) Genres / Forms: Deeds, Land grants, Bills of sale, Receipts, Oaths, Election returns, Specifications, Wills Quantity: 445 Item(s) Scope / Contents: Papers relating to Oliver Herring and son James of Lenoir Co. and to the estates they administered. There are Lenoir Co. wills of William Davenport (1838), Jobe Leary (1840), Oliver Herring (1867), and Emily Herring (1898) and estates papers (1838-1901) for these and others, especially M. C. R. Loftin (1838-1847), including lists of slaves hired out or maintained by lowest bidder. Other slave papers (1836-1861) relating to Loftin and Herring estates include bill of sale for blacksmith (1856). Grants and deeds are for land in Dodds, Lenoir, and Craven counties (1764-1883). Also in collection are Confederate bond certificates, allotments by warden of the poor to destitute families of soldiers, Federal paroles and oaths, tax and other receipts, and a few letters concerning settlement of estates (1890-1902) and the Baptist ministry (1908). Miscellaneous items iclude "new light" hymn (n.d.); deed, building specifications, and receipts for house in Goldsboro (1853); a Lenoir Co. township election return (1890); and commissioners' decision concerning canal cleaning (1891). Index Terms: Geographic Names: Lenoir County Dobbs County Craven County Goldsboro Subjects: Administration of Estates Slaves Blacksmiths Wardens of the Poor Soldiers Family Poverty Commissioners Canals Baptists Clergy Hymns Townships Corporate Names: Confederate States of America Personal Names: Herring, James Herring, Oliver Davenport, William Leary, Jobe Herring, Emily Loftin, M. C. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: H.M. Hocutt Collection Years: 1800-1875 Call Number: PC.598 Location: 3B MARS Id: 1108 (Group) Genres / Forms: Land grants, Deeds, Land surveys Quantity: 15 Item(s) Scope / Contents: Copy of Wayne Co. grant to Francis Joiner (1800); Wayne Co. deeds and surveys for that and other land (1800-1863); and Johnston, New Hanover, and Pender county deeds to cattle and land of the Hocutt family (1860-1875). Index Terms: Geographic Names: Wayne County Johnston County New Hanover County Pender County Subjects: Land Cattle Personal Names: Hocutt, H. M. Hocutt Family Joiner, Francis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: Hugh Buckner Johnston Collection Years: 1755-1967 Call Number: PC.206 Location: 3B MARS Id: 716 (Group) Genres / Forms: Wills, Letters, Deeds, Accounts, Account books, Registers, Bonds (legal records), Application, Articles, Oaths, Indexes, Orders Quantity: 6.75 Linear Feet Scope / Contents: Material collected by Professor Johnston of Atlantic Christian College, local historian and genealogist, chiefly papers of the Batts, Dickinson, Drake, Edwards, Farmer, Farrow, Gardner, Robbins, Sharpe, Williford, and Woodard families of Edgecombe (later Wilson) Co. and the Moss family of Granville Co. Most date from 1820 to 1860 and include land and financial records, court papers, estate papers, a few business letters, and miscellaneous Wilson Co. papers (1818-1897). There are typed copies of Civil War letters from William Henry Edwards, Co. H, 59th Regt. NCT (4th N.C. Cavalry), and from his in-laws George W., John B., and Gray W. Woodard of Wilson Co. Original items include appointment of Duncan Lamon as deputy receiver of quitrents for Earl Granville in Edgecombe Co. (1761); appointment of naval stores inspector, Edgecombe Co. (1810); letter from Blake Baker to Col. Thomas Wiggins about legal matters (1810); Pitt Co. grant (1783) and deeds for Bynums and Deldays; account books of William White, Wilson Co. storekeeper (1806-1807, 1809-1823); three administrators' bonds (1800-1825); wills of free Negro Arch. Artice (frag., 1849) and of Mary Ann Stokes (1860); 119 daily registers from Wilson Co. public schools (1892-1910); and Supreme Lodge Knights of Gideon minutes and records of mortuary fund, Bath (1912-1924). There are photocopies of some Virginia land patents (1666-1724), court orders, and wills and photocopies from the National Archives of Revolutionary War pension applications, some of which include Bible records. Also photocopied are an oath of allegiance (1776) and correspondence (1777-1779) between Col. Jonas Johnston of Edgecombe Co. and Gov. Richard Caswell about deserters, bounty payments, and action in South Carolina; and the U.S. State Department file (1898-1913) on Rev. Owen L. W. Smith of Wilson Co., a Negro, Republican, and consul to Liberia (1898-1902). Also in collection are miscellaneous photocopied genealogical material on families in Edgecombe, Wayne, Franklin, and Warren counties and indexed newspaper articles by Johnston on local history and genealogy. Index Terms: Geographic Names: Durham County Wilson County Granville County Pitt County Wayne County Franklin County Warren County Virginia South Carolina Liberia Bath Subjects: Colonels Women Governors Afro-Americans Blacks Storekeepers Freedmen American Revolution, 1775-1783 Compensation Military Pensions Military Deserters Desertion, Military Local History Allegiance Genealogy Courts Consuls Bounties, Military Military Campaigns Appointments and Retirements Naval Stores Quitrents Receivers Appointment to Office Business Civil War, 1861-1865 Inspectors Schools Public Schools Procedure (Law) Executors and Administrators Soldiers Bible Records Administration of Estates Courts Land Corporate Names: Atlantic Christian College Fifty-ninth Regiment, Company H, North Carolina Troops Fourth North Carolina Cavalry Supreme Lodge Knights of Gideon National Archives and Records Administration United States State Department Republican Party Personal Names: Johnston, Hugh Buckner Batts Family Dickinson Family Drake Family Edwards Family Farmer Family Farrow Family Gardner Family Robbins Family Sharpe Family Williford Family Woodard Family Moss Family Edwards, William Henry Woodard, Gray W. Woodard, John B. Woodard, George W. Granville, Earl Wiggins, Thomas Baker, Blake Stokes, Mary Ann Bynum Family Delday Family White, William Johnston, Jonas Caswell, Richard Smith, Owen L. W. Clergy Lamon, Duncan Artice, Arch ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: Mrs. Mattie Kennedy Parrott Collection Years: 1744-1890 Call Number: PC.1106 Location: 3B MARS Id: 1616 (Group) Genres / Forms: Land grants, Deeds, Marriage licenses, Wills, Agreements, Injunction Quantity: 57 Item(s) Scope / Contents: Craven, Dobbs, Wayne, Lenoir, Greene, and Johnston county grants, deeds, and other papers to land owned by Jacob, Benjamin, and B. F. Parrott, Joseph Allen, Thomas Fish, and others (Kennedy, Croom, Pool, Mewbern, Caldwell, Webb); Lenoir Co. marriage license for freedman Matthew Jones and freedwoman Patsey Jones (1866); guardian and estate papers for John F. Mewbern and Richard Kennedy (1869); and Craven Co. Superior Court injunction restraining officers of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad from leasing it to the Pennsylvania Central Railroad as means of preventing newly elected officers from assuming control (1871). Also copies of wills of John Parrott, Sr. (1791), Joseph Allen (1798), and Pinckney Hardee (1871) and of agreement between John Washington and William Blackledge dividing land of Joseph Allen (1821). Index Terms: Geographic Names: Craven County Dobbs County Wayne County Lenoir County Greene County Johnston County Subjects: Freedmen Freedmen's Marriages Blacks Administration of Estates Guardian and Ward Officers Partition of Estates Land Division Courts Superior Courts Injunctions Corporate Names: Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad Pennsylvania Central Railroad Craven County Superior Court Personal Names: Parrott, Mattie Kennedy Parrott, B. F. Allen, Joseph Fish, Thomas Parrott Family Parrott, Jacob Parrott, Benjamin Kennedy Family Croom Family Pool Family Mewbern Family Caldwell Family Webb Family Jones, Patsey Mewbern, John F. Kennedy, Richard Parrott, John, Sr. Hardee, Pinckney Washington, John Blackledge, William Land Sale and Transfer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: Lizzie Koonce Papers Years: 1857 Call Number: PC.672 Location: 3B MARS Id: 1182 (Group) Genres / Forms: Reports, Notes Quantity: 2 Item(s) Scope / Contents: Report of Miss Koonce's progress at Goldsboro Female College; and notes on family of Francis Duval Koonce (b. 1837). Index Terms: Subjects: Universities and Colleges Education Women College Students Women's Colleges Corporate Names: Goldsboro Female College Personal Names: Koonce, Lizzie Women Koonce, Francis Duval Koonce Family ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: George W. Pearsall Letters Years: 1862-1864 Call Number: PC.832 Location: 3B MARS Id: 1342 (Group) Genres / Forms: Letters Scope / Contents: Letters from Pearsall, Co. G, 55th Regt. NCT, to his wife in Wayne Co. from camps in North Carolina and Virginia, including description of the Battle of Spotsylvania and march to Richmond. Letter from friend tells of Pearsall's death and burial. Index Terms: Geographic Names: Wayne County Virginia Subjects: Military Camps Spotsylvania Courthouse, Battle of, Va., 1864 Burial Death Battle Casualties Husband and Wife Corporate Names: Fifty-fifth Regiment, Company G, North Carolina Troops Personal Names: Pearsall, George W. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: John H. Powell Papers Years: 1842-1876 Creator: Powell, John H. Call Number: PC.1732 Location: 3B.573 MARS Id: 2242 (Group) Genres / Forms: Letters, Notes, Oaths Quantity: 16 Item(s) Scope / Contents: Papers of John H. Powell (1824-1898) include letters, notes, accounts, Confederate pass, and oath of allegiance, Wayne County, 1842-1876. Index Terms: Geographic Names: Wayne County Subjects: Civil War, 1861-1865 Reconstruction, 1865-1877 Confederate States of America Personal Names: Powell, John H., 1824-1898 Source / Donor: Warren, E. R., Jr., Mrs. -- Gift ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: Miles Radford Paper Years: 1842 Call Number: PC.860 Location: 3B MARS Id: 1370 (Group) Genres / Forms: Decrees Quantity: 1 Item(s) Scope / Contents: Decree in the Wayne Co. case of J. B. Jones, administrator, v. Gabriel Sherrard and others (22 N.C. 179) ordering Miles Radford to pay part of charges and interest on land he has occupied as tenant since death of Margaret Radford. Index Terms: Geographic Names: Wayne County Subjects: Administration of Estates Land Tenants Courts Lawsuits County Courts Payment Interest Rent 22 N.C. 179 J.B. JONES, ADMINISTRATOR VS. GABRIEL SHERRARD AND OTHERS Personal Names: Radford, Miles Jones, J. B. Sherrard, Gabriel Radford, Margaret ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: Benjamin H. Sims Journal Years: 1863-1865 Call Number: MfP.71 Location: MFR MARS Id: 2581 (Group) Genres / Forms: Notebooks, Diaries Quantity: 1 REEL (90 FEET) Scope / Contents: Notebook, the first part consisting of undated survey notes, apparently for construction of a railroad from some point on the Yadkin River to Mocksville. The second part contains the Civil War diary of Benjamin H. Sims of Alto Post Office, Louisa Co., Va., from his conscription on Sept. 13, 1863, into the 17th Regt., Va. Infantry, to his return home on April 15, 1865, including service at Kinston, Goldsboro, New Bern, Richmond, and Petersburg. Index Terms: Geographic Names: Yadkin River Mocksville Alto Post Office (Louisa Co., Va.) Louisa County (Va.) Kinston Goldsboro New Bern Richmond Petersburg Yadkin River Mocksville Subjects: Civil War, 1861-1865 Civil War, 1861-1865 Railroads Survey Information Building Construction Corporate Names: Seventeenth Regiment, Virginia Infantry Confederate States of America Personal Names: Sims, Benjamin H. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: M.M. Smith Collection Years: 1814 Call Number: PC.936 Location: 3B MARS Id: 1446 (Group) Genres / Forms: Land grants Quantity: 1 Item(s) Scope / Contents: Land grant to Alexander Smith for 26 acres in Wayne Co. Index Terms: Geographic Names: Wayne County Subjects: Land Personal Names: Smith, M. M. Smith, Alexander ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: George V. Strong Papers Years: 1866-1867 Call Number: PC.972 Location: 3B MARS Id: 1482 (Group) Genres / Forms: Pardons, Certificates Quantity: 3 Item(s) Scope / Contents: President Johnson's pardon for Strong of Wayne Co.; copy of his acceptance; and certificate of oath of allegiance. Index Terms: Geographic Names: Wayne County Subjects: Certificates of Oaths Allegiance Reconstruction, 1865-1877 Presidents Personal Names: Strong, George V. Johnson, Andrew ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: John Douglas Taylor (1831-1912) Papers Years: 1909, 1912 Call Number: PC.984 Location: 3B MARS Id: 1494 (Group) Genres / Forms: Essays, Letters, Obituaries, Reminiscences Quantity: 2 Item(s) Scope / Contents: Photocopy of typed memoirs by Lt. Col. John D. Taylor, 36th Regt. NCT (2nd Regt. N.C. Artillery) describing his election to legislature (1860); his organization of an artillery company (Co. K) from Brunswick Co. and his rise in rank; service at Forts Caswell and Campbell, the fall of Ft. Fisher, and subsequent movement of his troops to Ft. Anderson, Wilmington, Goldsboro, and Kinston; fighting near Kinston; Battle of Bentonville; and his evacuation as a casualty to a field hospital and to Raleigh. Taylor comments on U.S. Generals Hugh J. Kilpatrick, W. T. Sherman, and Francis P. Blair in Raleigh, on Rev. Luther McKinnon, and on the freedmen and Reconstruction, closing with copy of letter from Col. William Lamb (Norfolk, 1895) in praise of Taylor and the Brunswick Artillery. Also newspaper obituary (May 22, 1912). Index Terms: Geographic Names: Brunswick County Fort Caswell Fort Campbell (Ky.) Fort Fisher Fort Anderson Wilmington Goldsboro Kinston Raleigh Norfolk (Va.) Subjects: Colonels Troop Movements Civil War, 1861-1865 Military Service Military Hospitals Battle Casualties Hospitals Seiges Capitulations, Military Electioneering Legislators Generals Clergy Freedmen Blacks Reconstruction, 1865-1877 Emancipation Praise Fort Fisher, Battle of, 1865 Corporate Names: Thirty-sixth Regiment, North Carolina Troops Second Regiment, North Carolina Artillery Confederate States of America General Assembly United States. Army Brunswick Artillery, Company K Personal Names: Taylor, John Douglas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: Gertrude Weil (1879-1971) Papers Years: 1856-1971 Call Number: PC.1488 Location: 3B MARS Id: 1998 (Group) Genres / Forms: Letters, Correspondence, Reports, Minutes, Clippings, Pamphlets, Photographs, Plays Quantity: 51 Linear Feet Scope / Contents: Papers of Gertrude Weil, suffragist, humanitarian, civil and religious leader, daughter of Mina Rosenthal and Henry Weil of Goldsboro, including 6,000 family letters, two thirds to or from the Weil children during college years-Lionel and Herman at UNC (1891-1895, 1897-1901); Gertrude at Horace Mann School, New York City, and Smith College (1895-1901); Janet (later Mrs. Herbert Bleuthenthal) at N.C. State Normal and Industrial College (UNC-Greensboro) and Smith College (1908-1914), describing studies and sports, social, and cultural activities. Many letters are from Mina Weil to her children and from the grandparents, Jacob and Yetta Weil of Baltimore (in Yiddish) and Eva and Emil Rosenthal of Wilson to their children. Travel letters are from Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893; six-month tour of Europe, 1895-1896; Mexico, 1907; Mediterranean ports, 1909; Cincinnati, 1910; western North Carolina (Boone and Blowing Rock) and Canal Zone, 1913; and England, 1934. Life of a single woman of modest means is revealed in letters spanning thirty-five years from Harriet L. Payne (Vassar, 1903), including service as a WWI Red Cross worker in France. Other correspondents include Edwin A. Alderman, Mary Pearsall Berenson, Annie Kizer Bost, Martha G. Boswell, Olive D. Campbell, Mary Grace Canfield, Thurmond Chatham, Albert Coates, Sallie Southall Cotten, Josephus Daniels, Harriet W. Elliott, Harry L. Golden, Edward K. Graham, Frank Porter Graham, Harriet Herring, Mary Mendenhall Hobbs, Mrs. Samuel Jacobs, Louis Jaffe, Victor Jelenko, Kate Burr Johnson, Charles Raper Jonas, Dr. George H. Kirby, Nell Battle Lewis, Laura Holmes Reilly, Elias E. Ries, W. Kerr Scott, Rabbi Abraham Shinedling, Arthur L. Stearns, Gladys A. Tillett. Also WWI letters from Wayne Co. servicemen collected for the N.C. Historical Commission. N.C. Equal Suffrage Association papers, 1914-1920, include letters from president Gertrude Weil, other suffragists, and many prominent men in support of ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, 1920. Also reports, minutes, publications, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, ribbons, photographs. Similar material from National American Suffrage Association, 1911-1920, with many booklets and speeches. Correspondents on suffrage include Barbara Henderson, Walter Clark, A. W. McLean, Mrs. William A. Graham, W. O. Saunders, Cornelia P. Jerman, Carrie Chapman Catt, Josephus Daniels, L. B. McBrayer, Zebulon Weaver, Clyde R. Hoey, Collier Cobb, J. C. B. Ehringhaus, and C. W. Tillett, Jr. Material on Jewish relief efforts by Weil family through personal and organizational channels beginning in 1920 includes correspondence from friends and family in Austria, France, England, and Germany, some letters in Yiddish or German. Letters of the 1930s from Oettinger relatives in Frankfort, Nuremburg, Paris, and London depict plight of Jews in Nazi Germany and contrast with letters from Henrietta Szold and Dr. Bernard Berger in Palestine (1938-1939). Organizational correspondence is with American Jewish Committee, Palestine Development Leagues, Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America, and letters from banks and government agencies concerning financial arrangements and legal requirements. Postwar letters from Emil Oettinger describe living conditions for an emigre in New York and comment on current events, 1946-1949. Also papers for the N.C. Association of Jewish Women founded by Mrs. Sol Weil in 1921; the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods (1927-1955); and sabbath school literature, plays, and workbooks (1916-1959). Miscellaneous state level organizations with correspondence, minutes, literature include Charles B. Aycock Memorial Commission (1949-1971); League of Women Voters (1920-1933); Federation of Women's Clubs (1904-1957); Conference for Social Service, (1913-1964); Committee on Interracial Cooperation (1922-1947); Council on Human Relations (1949-1965); as well as their national and local organizational counterparts. Also National Council for the Prevention of War (1935); Family Welfare Association of America (1931-1933); Civil Liberties Union (1962-1967); Southern Summer School for Women Workers in Industry (1929-1943); Women's Centennial Congress, (1940); Industrial Farm Colony for Women, Kinston (1934-1939); Mental Hygiene Society (1936-1939); Chautauqua Circle (1892-1895); and birth control organizations (1930s). Letters exchanged by Mina and Henry Weil, 1873-1876, are restricted. Index Terms: Geographic Names: Goldsboro Wilson New York (N. Y.) Greensboro Baltimore (Md.) Chicago (Ill.) Europe Mexico Mediterranean Sea Cincinnati (Ohio) Boone Blowing Rock Canal Zone England France Wayne County Germany Frankfort (Germany) Nuremburg (Germany) Paris (France) London (England) New York Kinston Subjects: Cities and Towns Corporate Names: Horace Mann School (New York City) Smith College North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College University of North Carolina, Greensboro Columbian Exposition (Chicago) North Carolina Historical Commission American Red Cross North Carolina Equal Suffrage Association National Ameri Personal Names: Weil, Gertrude Weil, Mina Rosenthal Weil, Henry Weil Family Weil, Lionel Weil, Herman Bleuthenthal, Janet Weil Weil, Jacob Weil, Yetta Rosenthal, Eva Rosenthal, Emil Rosenthal Family Payne, Harriet L. Alderman, Edwin A. Berenson, Mary Pearsall Bost, Annie Kizer Boswell, Martha G. Campbell, Olive D. Canfield, Mary Grace Thurmond, Chatham Coates, Albert Cotten, Sallie Southall Daniels, Josephus Elliott, Harriet W. Golden, Harry L. Graham, Edward K. Graham, Frank Porter Herring, Harriet Hobbs, Mary Mendenhall Jacobs, Samuel, Mrs. Jaffe, Louis Jelenko, Victor Johnson, Kate Burr Jonas, Charles Raper Kirby, George H. Lewis, Nell Battle Reilly, Laura Holmes Ries, Elias E. Scott, William Kerr Shinedling, Abraham Stearns, Arthur L. Tillet, Gladys A. Henderson, Barbara Clark, Walter McLean, A. W. Graham, William A., Mrs. Saunders, W. O. Jerman, Cornelia P. Catt, Carrie Chapman Daniels, Josephus McBrayer, L. B. Weaver, Zebulon Hoey, Clyde Roark Cobb, Collier Tillett, C. W., Jr. Ehringhaus, John Christian Blucher Szold, Henrietta Berger, Bernard Oettinger, Emil Weil, Sol, Mrs. Aycock, Charles Brantley ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: Lionel Weil Papers Years: 1918-1919 Creator: Weil, Lionel Call Number: PC.1728 Location: 3B.573 MARS Id: 2238 (Group) Genres / Forms: Letters, Scrapbooks, Posters, Telegrams Quantity: 2 Item(s) Scope / Contents: Scrapbook of Lionel Weil, of Goldsboro (N.C.), containing letters, posters, telegrams, photographs, etc. concerning the Jewish Relief Fund for Jewish refugees of World War I. Index Terms: Subjects: Jews World War, 1914-1918 Refugees Corporate Names: Jewish Relief Fund Personal Names: Weil, Lionel Source / Donor: Mitchell, Rachel Weil -- Gift ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: Nathan B. Whitfield Papers Years: 1873-1908 Call Number: PC.218 Location: 3B MARS Id: 728 (Group) Genres / Forms: Letters, Minutes, Reports, Charters, Resolutions, Notebooks, Biographies Quantity: 65 Item(s) Scope / Contents: Papers of Whitfield, Lenoir Co. farmer, legislator (1891), and leader in local Grange and Farmers' Alliance. Items concerning Patrons of Husbandry include charter for Stella Grange in Wayne Co. (1873); letters from state and national headquarters (1887-1888) about meetings, avoidance of political partisanship, and cooperative buying; and proceedings of National Grange (1887). Alliance material includes resolutions by Fairfield Farmers' Alliance, Lenoir Co., against Sen. Z. B. Vance's position on the subtreasury bill with Vance's response (1890); eulogies to former members (1889-1890); letters from state headquarters about joint action on cotton prices and about the Business Agency (1905); minutes, quarterly reports, and crop report of Kinston Sub-Alliance (1905-1906); and printed constitutions, rituals, proceedings of State Alliance. Other printed material includes constitutions for Knights of Honor (1878), American Legion of Honor (1883), and subdivisions of Southern Cotton Association (1905); and information on Lenoir Co. branch of Farmer's Mutual Fire Insurance Association (1895-1908). Personal items include letter from President A. Q. Holladay about Whitfield's son at NC A&M (1890); and notebooks containing farm labor accounts (1881-1904), church accounts, number of registered voters by township and race (Lenoir Co., 1890-1891), names of justices of the peace, amendments suggested and action taken on bills in legislature, and biographical information on Robert Blanchett, George Buckner, John Eliot, David Smith, and the Croom family. Index Terms: Geographic Names: Lenoir County Wayne County Subjects: Senators Legislators Farmers Crops Granges Cooperative Societies Cooperatives Purchasing Politics Politics, Practical Townships College Presidents Universities and Colleges Insurance, Fire Racism Justices of the Peace Voting Political Participation Bills, Legislative Legislation Labor Agricultural Laborers Churches Amendments Headquarters Meetings Bills, Legislative Prices Cotton Trade Rites and Ceremonies Corporate Names: Grange and Farmers' Alliance Patrons of Husbandry Stella Grange National Grange Fairfield Farmers' Alliance Business Agency Kinston Sub-Alliance State Alliance Knights of Honor American Legion of Honor Southern Cotton Association Farmer's Mutual Fire Insurance Association North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College Personal Names: Whitfield, Nathan B. Vance, Zebulon Baird Blanchett, Robert Eliot, John Smith, David Croom Family Holladay, A. Q. Whitfield Family Buckner, George ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: John D. Whitford (1825-1910) Papers Years: 1770-1910 Call Number: PC.89 Location: 3B MARS Id: 598 (Group) Genres / Forms: Correspondence, Letters, Bills of sale, Pamphlets, Minutes, Bylaws, Reports, Bills (legislative records), Periodicals, Books, Memorandum, Requisitions, Proceedings, Charters, Reports Quantity: 1500 Item(s) Scope / Contents: Papers of John D. Whitford, New Bern businessman and mayor (1853-1854), president of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad Company (1854-1867), delegate to state Conventions of 1861 and 1865, and Confederate ordnance and transportation officer. Personal letters from Francis L. Hawks (1855-1860), R. C. Pearson, M. E. Manly, Jonathan Worth (1866), Thomas Jarvis (1874-1888), and others con- cern national and state politics, North Carolina town rivalries, need for militia company and "school of science," plans for Edward Everett's speaking tour (1859), and Brazil in the 1880s. Correspondence about railroads with Thomas Bragg, Charles F. Fisher, and others relates to location of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad eastern terminus at Carolina City instead of Beaufort; construction, workers' pay, and cost; company directors; truck farming along the route (1885); and construction on the North Carolina Railroad and the Western North Carolina Railroad. Also included are the company's charter and bylaws; proceedings of stockholder's meetings (1854-1889); minutes of Board of Directors (1855-1868); President's Reports (1881, 1885); map of Beaufort harbor with proposed rail lines (1854); "Communication to the General Assembly" (1856) about extension eastward; and replies from Whitford and John M. Morehead to interrogatories of Rufus Barringer, chairman of a legislative commission investigating possible corruption (1860). Other records relate to the North Carolina, Richmond and Danville, Wilmington and Weldon, Western North Carolina, and Piedmont railroads (1855- 1866). Also railroad convention proceedings (1862) and "Manual of the Railroads of the United States for 1869-1870." Among Whifield's Civil War papers are 80 printed legislative bills of the 1861 Secession Convention; requests for arms and ammunition from C. S. S. Albemarle and other units; reports from Forts Macon, Hatteras, Ocracoke, and Caswell; accounts of state with Tredegar Iron Works; memorandum about organizing wives and daughters to make cartridges; 290 government requisitions for transportation of people and supplies (spring, 1862); and civilian request for corn. Correspondents include John W. Ellis, Henry T. Clark, Z. B. Vance, R. C. Gatlin, Stephen Mallory, H. A. Wise, and Jonathan Worth on subjects including seizure of Fayetteville Arsenal (1861), C. S. S. Albemarle's expedition to Beacon Island, destruction of property at Ft. Ocracoke by Northern troops, Burnside's attack on New Bern, poor train service in North Carolina (1863), lack of iron for shipbuilding, salt making, state-Confederacy relations, and desertions (1864). Also copy of Whitford's letter to Vance about Raleigh riots (1863), and Vance's letter to U. S. General Schofield (April 30, 1865) about trains accumulated near Greensboro. Confederate government cir- culars are included; also regulations posted in Whitford's house in Goldsboro by the Union army, Mar., 1865. Whitford's 351-page typescript "The Home Story of a Walking Stick-Early History of the Biblical Recorder and Baptist Church at New Bern . . ." (n.d.) includes some history of New Bern and Craven Co. There are also historical and genealogical notes by Whitford. Papers (1770-1853) of New Bern merchant Hardy Whitford, include business accounts (see also A. B. 85), apprentice papers, deeds, slave bills of sale, a few letters, and a roster of the New Bern Grays, 1835. Printed material includes pamphlets, one defending the Methodist Episcopal church (1827); the United States Sporting Magazine (1835); The African Repository and Colonial Journal (1846); Minutes... of Presbyterian Synod of North Carolina (1851); Report of the Intendant to the Commissioners of New-Berne (1854); and The Student and Schoolmate, a Monthly Reader (1856). Also included are items relating to the Episcopal church, the National Bank, and St. John's Lodge (1857-1866, 1873) at New Bern; and time book for Planters Manufacturing Company (textiles) (1854-1855). Index Terms: Geographic Names: Carolina City Beaufort Brazil Virginia Greensboro Raleigh Goldsboro Beacon Island Fort Okracoke Fort Caswell Oak Island Subjects: Civil War, 1861-1865 Generals Union Soldiers Railroads Presidents Ordnance Officers Transportation Delegates Businessmen Politics Construction Congresses and Conventions Education Wages Truck Farming Stockholders Riots Harbors Ports HOME STORY OF A WALKING STICK-EARLY HISTORY OF THE BIBLICAL RECORDER AND BAPTIST CHURCH AT NEW BERN, THE Stockholders Merchants Iron Iron Works Shipbuilding Warships Battleships Slave Trade COMMUNICATION TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY (1856) Attacks (Civil War) Wives Women in War Women Corrupt Practices Legislators Requisitions, Military Military Deserters Desertion, Military MANUAL OF THE RAILROADS OF THE UNITED STATES FOR 1869-1870 Factories Manufacturing Textiles Salt Corn Property Losses Siege Warfare Corporate Names: Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad Company United States. Army Confederate States of America General Assembly Tredegar Iron Works New Bern Grays, North Carolina Troops Methodist Episcopal Church United States Sporting Magazine African Repository and Colonial Journal Presbyterian Synod of North Carolina Commissioners of New-Berne Episcopal Church National Bank St. John's Lodge (New Bern) Planters Manufacturing Company Richmond and Danville Railroad Wilmington and Weldon Railroad Western North Carolina Railroad Piedmont Railroad Secession Convention of 1861 C.S.S. ALBEMARLE Biblical Recorder (New Bern) Baptist Church (New Bern) Personal Names: Whitford, John D. Hawks, Francis L. Pearson, R. C. Manly, M. E. Worth, Jonathan Jarvis, Thomas Jordan Everett, Edward Bragg, Thomas Fisher, Charles F. Morehead, John Motley Barringer, Rufus Ellis, John Willis Vance, Zebulon Baird Gatlin, R. C. Mallory, Stephen Wise, H. A. Whitford, Hardy Schofield, John McAllister Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824-1881 Note: Quantity is 8 volumes and approximately 1500 items. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: John E. Williams Papers Years: 1965, n.d. Call Number: PC.1433 Location: 3B MARS Id: 1943 (Group) Quantity: 2 Item(s) Scope / Contents: Typescript by Williams, "Reconstruction Days in Jones and Lenoir counties based on stories told him by participants concerning violence by Jones Co. Sheriff Colgrove and his Negro soldiers, by the "John Miller gang" of Negroes, and by the KKK, and mentioning the role of Furnifold Simmons. Also a description of U.S. Gen. J. G. Foster's raid from New Bern to Goldsboro (Dec., 1862), ambushed at Resolution Branch by local men. Index Terms: Geographic Names: New Bern Goldsboro Jones County Resolution Branch Lenoir County Subjects: Blacks Soldiers Generals Sheriffs Violence Race Relations Reconstruction, 1865-1877 Gangs Foster's Raid Attacks " Reconstruction Days in Jones and Lenoir Counties" Corporate Names: Ku Klux Klan United States. Army Personal Names: Williams, John E. Foster, J. G. Simmons, Furnifold McLendel Colgrove, Sheriff ___________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________