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[Identification of item], in the William Hargrove Papers #310-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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All or part of this collection is available on microfilm from University Publications of America as part of the Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series J.

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Received from Mrs. J. Walter Williamson of Wilmington, N.C., in 1938.

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• Account books.
• Agriculture--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Granville County (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Hargrave family.
• Hargrove, William, b. 1776.
• Horses--Breeding--North Carolina--History.
• Leather industry and trade--North Carolina--History.
• Merchants--North Carolina--Granville County.
• Missouri River Valley--Description and travel.
• Plantations--North Carolina.
• Slave records--North Carolina--Granville County.
• Sturdivant family.

• Burwell Family Papers (#112).

William Hargrove, the son of planter John Hargrove (d.1793) and his wife Amy, was born in Granville Co., N.C., in 1776. He remained in that county, farming around Lynesville (present day Townsville) and Williamsboro, both now part of Vance County. In 1798, he married Holly Dodson (1778-1806) with whom he had four daughters, including Polly Ann Hargrove (b. 1801) and Nancy J. Hargrove (b. 1803). His wife died in 1806, and, in 1807, he married Susan Sturdivant of Dinwiddie County, Va. William and Susan had at least seven children, including William Turner (b. 1808), Hester (b. 1813), John (b. 1815), Elizabeth R. (b. 1818), Susan (b. 1820) and Robert S. (b. 1823).

William Hargrove's son John travelled in the western states on business for his father, visiting Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. He eventually returned to Granville County to farm on his father's estate and served as an aid-de-camp to Governor Charles Manly in 1849. John Hargrove had at least two children, Emma and Mollie, who attended the Salem Female Academy. The Hargroves were related to several other Granville County families that are mentioned frequently in the papers, especially the Sturdivant, Smith, and Hanks families. Members of these families, along with some of the Hargroves, emigrated to Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi in the 1830s and 1840s.

This collection consists of papers and an account book of the Hargrove family of Granville (now Vance) County, N.C., in particular those of William Hargrove, his son John Hargrove, and his daughter Elizabeth R. Hargrove. The papers consist of correspondence of members of the Hargrove family with friends and relatives, with a few financial and legal documents. The account book, 1801-circa 1850, lists purchases and sales for William Hargrove's plantation in Granville County, N.C., and includes slave lists, stud records for livestock and horses, records of agricultural expenses, and notes on planting and harvests, as well as some genealogical information on the Hargrove family. There are typed transcriptions of all items in the collection, including the account book.