Arrangement: chronological.

Bullock family correspondence consists primarily of business letters to John Bullock regarding financial matters, household expenditures, the management of his plantation, his tobacco crop and sales, the settlement of estates, and a dispute with his overseer. There are a number of letters from N. Martin, an agricultural dealer in Petersburg, Va. There is also personal correspondence from relatives and friends detailing neighborhood activities and news, religious views, local diseases and illnesses, and descriptions of school life. Items of interest include a letter from an acquaintance in Washington, D.C., seeking to leave the ministry to open a girl's school and giving his thoughts on slavery and living in the South, and the ruminations of friends and relatives on aging.

Arrangement: chronological.

Financial and legal papers of the Bullock family, primarily those of William Bullock and his son, John Bullock. From 1801 to 1830, the papers consist of a land survey, indentures, receipts, and the will of William Bullock. From 1830 to 1861, the papers are those of John Bullock, and include receipts, a land survey, a list of property owners in the Nutbush District of Granville County, miscellaneous accounts, items relating to the collection of notes, records of household and plantation expenses, an order to build a bridge in Nutbush District, and the will of Sally Fain, "a woman of colour." There are also a few receipts and the will of John Bullock's mother, Lucy Martin Bullock Bullock.

Arrangement: chronological.

Genealogical information on the Bullock, Carr, and Cheek families; family group records of the Bullock family; and abstracts of the Bullock family papers, all compiled by Lewis T. Bullock, M.D., of Los Angeles, Ca.

Arrangement: chronological.

Two circulars from 1840 and 1853 addressed to John Bullock as the Superintendent of Granville County Schools; minutes from an 1855 meeting of the Southern Central Agricultural Association; and a 1853 circular on the tobacco harvest and prices from N. M. Martin & Co., in Petersburg, Va.

Arrangement: chronological.

Manuscript volumes consist of four account books for William and John Bullock's general store in Williamsboro, and one account book containing diary entries of John Bullock's wife, Susan (Cobb) Bullock.

Arrangement: chronological.

Loose papers are primarily those of Charles Eaton Hamilton and his two wives, Jane Coleman and Sally Tarry, including a few items belonging to Joel Watkins, Sally Tarry's first husband. In the 1830s, the papers chiefly consist of correspondence, giving news of family and neighborhood activities, illnesses and marriages; student life at Hampden-Sidney College; descriptions of a fire in Petersburg, Va., and the burning of the Bowery Theater in New York City in 1836; and impressions of an 1838 visit to the U.S. Congress and of individual members, including John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster. There are many letters from Charles Eaton Hamilton's father and brothers, as well as other individuals, regarding the management of the family plantation in Lowndes County, Miss., farming and business matters, slave purchases and rentals, land sales in the Arkansas Territory, and cotton and tobacco sales. In 1838, Patrick Hamilton was involved in a lawsuit involving a shipment of goods to his store in Williamsboro. There are legal documents, including a sworn deposition from Charles Eaton Hamilton, and correspondence relating to the charges, which were eventually dropped.

In the 1840s, there is correspondence between Charles Eaton Hamilton and his father, brothers, and business associates, relating to plantation management, crop and land sales, the purchase and treatment of slaves, and cases of runaway slaves, as well as references to Charles Eaton Hamilton's use of Indians to pick cotton on the Lowndes County, Miss., plantation.

Personal letters from family and friends of Charles Eaton Hamilton, Jane Coleman, and Sally Tarry give details of family life, social events, and neighborhood activities and disputes; religious beliefs and conversions and the high-church movement in the Episcopal Church; temperance movements and societies; and opinions on national and local politics. Many letters chronicle Charles Eaton Hamilton's courtship of Jane Coleman, their marriage in 1840, and the birth of their children Patrick, Henrietta, and Henry, with Jane's family giving her advice on child raising and her role as a wife and mother. Items of interest include a lengthy description of a spa, a mock tournament and ball held there, and the relations of Northerners and Southerners at the spa; a description of burial customs of Roman Catholics in New Bern, N.C.; and references to the Mexican War, the North's view of the treatment of slaves, the relocation of freed slaves to the North, and the Irish potato famine.

After 1846, the papers are predominantly concerned with business matters--slaves, tobacco, cotton, and farming. In 1850, Jane Coleman Hamilton died, and, in 1851, Patrick Hamilton, Charles Eaton Hamilton's father died. In addition to business correspondence, there are a few bereavement letters from relatives, personal correspondence regarding Hamilton's eventual marriage to Sally Tarry Watkins in 1853, a letter from the daughter of a veteran of the War of 1812, seeking pension information, and a letter from a freedman in New Orleans attempting to purchase his sisters from Hamilton.

After Charles Eaton Hamilton's death in 1855, the papers consist of letters to Sally Tarry Watkins Hamilton from her family and Hamilton relatives, giving social and household news. Letters during and following the Civil War include two from a soldier in the Army of Tennessee describing the aftermath of the Battle of Chickamauga; a discussion of the behavior of former slaves after the Civil War; the state of the South during Reconstruction and the effects of emancipation; daily life in Mobile, Ala., including riots and elections in 1867; and high-church practices and other "romish abuses" in the Episcopal Church.

Undated items include letters to Sally Tarry Watkins, Jane Coleman, and Charles Eaton Hamilton regarding family and social news and events; illnesses, romances, and marriages; a letter to Charles Eaton Hamilton regarding a runaway slave, a police constable seeking to entrap him with "negro spies," and the runaway's chances of escaping to the North; a list of medicinal cures; and a letter describing a visit to a gypsy fortune teller.

This volume consists of agricultural records and expenses for the Hamilton family's Peachland Prairie Plantation in Lowndes County, Miss., including a land survey, miscellaneous accounts, lists of deposits, inventories and lists of articles and livestock on the plantation, and Charles Eaton Hamilton's travel expenses between Mississippi and North Carolina.