Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

#324
HAYES COLLECTION
Summary

NOTE: A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
Contact staff at: (919)962-1345 (telephone); (919)962-4452 (FAX); mss@email.unc.edu.

Hayes collection, 1694-1874.
20,000 items (32 linear feet).

Arranged chronologically in two series:  Series I. Johnston Family
papers; and Series 2. Wood Family papers.

Personal, legal, and business papers of three generations of the Johnston
family of Edenton, N.C., reflecting more than a century of North Carolina
and national history.  Included are the papers of Gabriel Johnston
(1699-1752), colonial governor; his brother, Samuel Johnston, Sr.,
merchant; Samuel Johnston, Jr. (1733-1816), lawyer, member of the
Continental Congress, governor, Federalist, and U.S. senator; and James
Cathcart Johnston (1782-1865), planter.  Topics include politics and
plantation and family affairs.  Among the correspondents are many prominent
men, especially North Carolinians, of the colonial, revolutionary,
Federalist and Civil War periods.  The volumes include merchants' ledgers,
plantation account books, diaries, memoranda, and the records, 1842-1874,
of the Greenfield Fisheries at Edenton, N.C., run by Edward Wood.  Wood was
a close friend of James C. Johnston and inherited the Hayes Plantation from
him.

Gift, 1983.

Microfilm copy available.

ONLINE CATALOG TERMS:
   Account books.
   Diaries--North Carolina.
   Edenton (N.C.)--History--19th century.
   Federalist Party (N.C.).
   Fish industry and trade--North Carolina--History--19th century.
   Greenfield Fisheries (Edenton, N.C.).
   Hayes Plantation (N.C.).
   Johnston family.
   Johnston, Gabriel, 1699-1752.
   Johnston, James C., d. 1865.
   Johnston, Samuel, 1702-1757.
   Johnston, Samuel, 1733-1816.
   Governors--North Carolina.
   North Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
   North Carolina--History--1775-1865.
   North Carolina--Politics and government--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
   North Carolina--Politics and government--1775-1865.
   North Carolina--Politics and government--1861-1865.
   Plantation life--North Carolina.
   Plantations--North Carolina.
   Wood, Edward, 1820-1872.
   Wood family.

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