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Collection Overview
| Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 250 items) |
| Abstract | The Jacocks family, chiefly of Bertie County, N.C., was related to the Bryan and the Slater (Slatter) families. Some family members lived in Tennessee or Florida. The collection includes family letters, accounts, receipts, deeds, and other papers of members of the Jacocks family of Bertie County, N.C.; of Bryan and Slater family members; and of their Tennessee and Florida relatives. Included is correspondence and related materials of Jonathan Jacocks, Charles West Jacocks (1799-1848), Jonathan Joseph Jacocks (1838-1892), Charles West Jacocks (1872-1959), and others. Also included is an account book of Charles West Jacocks (1799-1848); a diary, 1883-1886, of Charles W. Jacocks (1843-1900), a fruit-grower in Orange County, Fla.; copies of family Bible records; and a few plats and surveys relating to Bertie County property. |
| Creator | Jacocks, Jonathan, 1769-1810. |
| Language | English |
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Subject Headings
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Biographical Information
The Jacocks family resided in Bertie County, N.C. Relatives resided in Tennessee and in Florida.
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Scope and Content
The collection includes family letters, accounts, receipts, deeds, and other papers of members of the Jacocks family of Bertie County, N.C.; of Bryan and Slater family members; and of their Tennessee and Florida relatives. Included is correspondence and related materials of Jonathan Jacocks, Charles West Jacocks (1799-1848), Jonathan Joseph Jacocks (1838-1892), Charles West Jacocks (1872-1959), and others. Also included is an account book of Charles West Jacocks (1799-1848); a diary, 1883-1886, of Charles W. Jacocks (1843-1900), a fruit-grower in Orange County, Fla.; copies of family Bible records; and a few plats and surveys relating to Bertie County property.
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Papers, 1732-1908.
Arrangement: chronological.
| Folder 1 |
1732-1822 #00372, Series: "Papers, 1732-1908." Folder 1Scattered letters, deeds, indentures, Bertie and Perquimans counties, of Jacocks and the realted Nichols and Slatter families. |
| Folder 2 |
1823-1829 #00372, Series: "Papers, 1732-1908." Folder 2As above, except with items from relatives in Tennessee. |
| Folder 3 |
1830-1833 #00372, Series: "Papers, 1732-1908." Folder 3 |
| Folder 4 |
1834-1835 #00372, Series: "Papers, 1732-1908." Folder 4 |
| Folder 5 |
1836-1843 #00372, Series: "Papers, 1732-1908." Folder 5 |
| Folder 6 |
1844-1854 #00372, Series: "Papers, 1732-1908." Folder 6Business papers of Elizabeth Heckstall; also letters from Haywood County, Tenn., relatives. |
| Folder 7 |
1855-1865 #00372, Series: "Papers, 1732-1908." Folder 7Leigh items (circa 1858); Civil War letters written at Chapel Hill (August 1862), Hertford (April 1864); Atlanta (20 August 1864).
Digital version: Letter from Preston H. Sessoms to Penelope E. White, 28 August 1862 |
| Folder 8 |
1866-1869 #00372, Series: "Papers, 1732-1908." Folder 8Family letters written at Windsor, N.C.; Louisville, Ky.; and other locations. |
| Folder 9 |
1870-1885 #00372, Series: "Papers, 1732-1908." Folder 9Very scattered Jacocks and Capehart items. |
| Folder 10 |
1886-1889 #00372, Series: "Papers, 1732-1908." Folder 10Family correspondence of Jonathan Joseph Jacocks, including letters from his young sons Charles W. Jacocks at Trinity School in Chocowinity, N.C., and W. P. Jacocks. |
| Folder 11-12 |
1890-1896 #00372, Series: "Papers, 1732-1908." Folder 11-12Jonathan Joseph Jacocks papers continued. During the last year of his life, he began to correspond with libraries and relatives about family history. After his death in 1892, papers are of his son Charles W. Jacocks, who also was interested in family history. Folder 11Folder 12 |
| Folder 13-14 |
1897-1908 #00372, Series: "Papers, 1732-1908." Folder 13-14Letters received by Charles W. Jacocks chiefly about family history. Some letters are from John Hill Jacocks in Brownsville, Tenn. Also included are some W. P. Jacocks items. Folder 13Folder 14 |
| Folder 15 |
Undated #00372, Series: "Papers, 1732-1908." Folder 15 |
| Folder 16-17 |
Family Bible records #00372, Series: "Papers, 1732-1908." Folder 16-17Photocopies and typed copies of family Bible records relating to the Bryan (including Elizabeth Jacocks property, 1811), Jacocks (including Charles W. Jacocks, March 1837), Slater (Slatter) families. Folder 16Folder 17 |
| Folder 18 |
Duplicates #00372, Series: "Papers, 1732-1908." Folder 18Handwritten and typed copies of some of the materials in the collection. |
| Folder 19 |
Volume 1: Charles West Jacocks accounts, 1819-1822, 28 pages #00372, Series: "Papers, 1732-1908." Folder 19Accounts of Charles West Jacocks (1799-1848) for personal and family expenses. |
| Folder 20 |
Volume 2: Charles W. Jacocks diary, July 1883-January 1886, 289 pages #00372, Series: "Papers, 1732-1908." Folder 20Diary of Charles W. Jacocks (1843-1900) at Formosa in Orange County, Fla, where he was arborculturist, agent, and manager of orange groves and farm property for clients. Diary documents work done, weather, business activities, family events, and other topics. Clients include J. P. Sauxay, Dr. Shattuck, Morton, Howe, Kingsley, Lapsley, Bruce, and others. Entries discuss strawberry culture, pineapples, peas, flowers, gardens, stock in an ice factory, and Jacocks's family including his wife, who died in 1883, and his sons George T. and Augustus J. |
| Oversize Paper OP-372/1 |
Jonathan Jacocks patent for Odens Island, undated #00372, Series: "Papers, 1732-1908." OP-372/1Plot made in connection with a claim of Joacocks vs. Ebenezer Slade of an area in Bertie County, N.C., touching Albemarle Sound. Ink and watercolor. |
| Oversize Paper OP-372/2 |
Tracing of Bertie County, N.C., survey, 22 August 1767 #00372, Series: "Papers, 1732-1908." OP-372/2"Tracing of survey of certain lands lying between Salmon Creek and Cashie River, made by W. Charlton, and now in the possession of Dr. William Rhodes Capehart of Bertie County, North Carolina." Photocopy. |
| Oversize Paper OP-372/3 |
Map of Windsor, N.C., 1844 #00372, Series: "Papers, 1732-1908." OP-372/3Shows streets and lots and some property owners' names. Ink and watercolor with "Oct. 1868" added in pencil. |
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Processed by: Manuscripts Department Staff, November 1948
Encoded by: Mara Dabrishus, April 2005
Funding from the State Library of North Carolina supported the encoding of this finding aid.
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