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Copyright Notice

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

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Hays Books, #1174, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Microfilm copy (filmed 1978) available.

• Reel 1: Carpenter's day book, 1803-1810

Acquisitions Information

Given by Francis B. Hays of Oxford, N.C., 1946.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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• Account books.
• Blacksmiths--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Carpenters--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Duty, Samuel, fl. 1803-1865.
• Estates (Law)--North Carolina.
• Granville County (N.C.)--History.
• Hays, Benjamin K., fl. 1887-1918.
• Hays, John Willis, 1834-1901.
• Henderson (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Lawyers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Mathematics--Problems, exercises, etc.--History--19th century.
• Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Oxford (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Physicians--North Carolina--History.
• Public health--North Carolina--History.
• School notebooks--History--19th century.
• Schools--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Shoemakers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Tobacco--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Vance County (N.C.)--History.

• John Willis Hays Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C.

Samuel Duty (fl. 1803-1865) lived in Vance County, N.C. John Willis Hays (1834-1901) of Oxford, N.C., was a lawyer. Benjamin K. Hays (fl. 1887-1918) of Oxford, N.C., was a physician and public health officer.

The collection includes business account books and other records of several persons in Granville and Vance counties, N.C., and the surrounding area. The account books of Samuel Duty, 1803-1865, include carpenter, blacksmith, and general merchandise accounts; the scrapbooks of lawyer John Willis Hays, circa 1887-1900, chiefly consist of material on notable individuals, including American and English jurists, and a legal notebook; the school notebooks and papers of physican Benjamin K. Hays include material related to education and health, along with other items relating to history, science, religion, and the status of African Americans in the South; and other account books, 1835-1883, consisting of accounts for general merchandise, a shoe shop, tobacco sales, estate settlements, blacksmith work, an academy, and other businesses, all of Oxford or Henderson, N.C. The collection also includes an arithmetic book of William B. Brandon.