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                 NATHANIEL CHESLEY DANIEL PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Correspondence, financial and legal material,
           account book, and other material, 1836-1899, of
           Nathaniel Chesley Daniel (1797-1853) and Anne H.
           Bullock Daniel (1804-1883), and of other Daniel family
           members from Tranquility Plantation, Granville County,
           N.C.  Two photographs of three former slaves of the
           Daniel and Bullock families are included.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Afro-Americans--Photographs.
   Daniel, Anne H. Bullock, 1804-1883.
   Daniel, Nathaniel Chesley, 1797-1853.
   Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs--19th century.
   Freedmen--Photographs.
   Granville County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--19th
       century.
   North Carolina--Social life and customs--19th century.
   Plantation life--North Carolina--Granville County.
   Tranquility Plantation (Granville County, N.C.).

Size:  35 items (5 folders, OP-4251/1, and P-4251/1-2).

Provenance:    Received from Nat V. Daniel of Elmira, New York,
               in November 1980.

Access:        No restrictions.

Processing Note:   This collection was processed with support
                   from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.  

Copyright:     Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
               or their descendants, as stipulated by United
               States copyright law.

Table of Contents:
   Biographical Note
   Description

                        BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

   Nathaniel Chesley Daniel, son of James Chesley and Ann Venable
Daniel, was born 20 July 1797 and died 9 May 1853.  On 24 January
1828, he married Anne H. Bullock, daughter of James Bullock of
Warren County, N.C.  Anne was born 29 September 1804 and died 25
March 1833.  The Daniels had eleven children, of whom the eldest
was Nathaniel Beverly Daniel, born 1842.

   The Daniels lived at "Tranquility" in Granville County, N.C.,
a plantation of several hundred acres.  From 1830 to 1837, Daniel
and his brother, James B. Daniel, Jr., owned general stores in
Waterloo, N.C., and Clarkesville, Va.

                           DESCRIPTION

   Chiefly correspondence among members of the Daniel family. 
Many of the letters are from or to Anne H. Bullock Daniel and her
children.  Others are to or from brothers and cousins.  None of
the letters were written by Nathaniel C. Daniel.  Most letters
are about daily events in the lives of family members.  Of
interest is an 1856 letter informing Anne that she had inherited
a slave.  Only one letter is from the Civil War period.

   Also included are legal and financial papers, writings, and
biographical information.  The legal and financial material
consists of a legal brief regarding a suit by James B. Daniel,
Jr., 1860; an 1864 tax statement of account; a copy of the 1876
will of James Daniel; a 1753 land indenture from Granville
County, N.C. (OP-4251/1); and tax receipts.  The writings include
a history of Holland Mill Chapel near Gastonia, N.C., and
material relating to Daniel family history.

   There are also two volumes, an account book, 1848-1856, of
Nathaniel C. Daniel (14 pp.) and an account book, 1854-1862, of
Anne H. Daniel (107 pp.), with records of purchases made by the
family.  Also included are two copies of a photograph (P-4251/1-
2) of three former Daniel and Bullock family slaves--Jim, Rose,
and Lawson.

Folder 1       Correspondence, 1836, 1851-1899
       2       Legal and Financial Material, 1860-1864, 1876
       3       Writings and Biographical Information, undated
       4       Volume 1, 1848-1856
       5       Volume 2, 1854-1862