Inventory of the Jonathan Jacocks Papers, 1732-1908

Collection Number 372

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Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Collection Information
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Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: 919/962-1345
Fax: 919/962-3594
Email: mss@email.unc.edu
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
Southern Historical Collection
Creator
Jacocks, Jonathan, 1769-1810.
Title
Jonathan Jacocks Papers, 1732-1908
Call Number
372
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
Items: 250
Linear Feet: 1.0
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.

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Administrative Information

Restrictions to Access
No restrictions.
Alternate Form of Material
Microfilm copy available (2 reels).
Acquisitions Information
Received through Dr. William P. Jacocks, Chapel Hill, N.C., beginning in 1940, and his daughter, Mrs. Puleston, in 1959.
Processing Information
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.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Jonathan Jacocks Papers #372, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Bertie County (N.C.)-- Social life and customs.
Bryan family.
Diaries.
Family--Florida--Social life and customs.
Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
Family--Tennessee--Social life and customs.
Fruit-culture--Florida--History--19th century.
Jacocks, Charles West, 1799-1848.
Jacocks, Charles West, 1843-1900
Jacocks, Charles West, 1872-1959.
Jacocks family.
Jacocks, Jonathan, 1769-1810.
Jacocks, Jonathan Joseph, 1838-1892.
Migration, Internal--Southern States.
Orange County (Fla.)--Social life and customs.
Real property--North Carolina.
Slater family.
Tennessee--Social life and customs.
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Related Collections

William Picard Jacocks Papers (#3120)
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Biographical Note

The Jacocks family resided in Bertie County, N.C. Relatives resided in Tennessee and in Florida.

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Collection Overview

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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Items Separated

Oversize papers (OP-372/1-3)
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Detailed Description of the Collection

Papers, 1732-1908.
250 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Folder 1
1732-1822
Scattered letters, deeds, indentures, Bertie and Perquimans counties, of Jacocks and the realted Nichols and Slatter families.
Folder 2
1823-1829
As above, except with items from relatives in Tennessee.
Folder 3
1830-1833
Folder 4
1834-1835
Folder 5
1836-1843
Folder 6
1844-1854
Business papers of Elizabeth Heckstall; also letters from Haywood County, Tenn., relatives.
Folder 7
1855-1865
Leigh 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
Family letters written at Windsor, N.C.; Louisville, Ky.; and other locations.
Folder 9
1870-1885
Very scattered Jacocks and Capehart items.
Folder 10
1886-1889
Family 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
Jonathan 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 13-14
1897-1908
Letters 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 15
Undated
Folder 16-17
Family Bible records
Photocopies 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 18
Duplicates
Handwritten and typed copies of some of the materials in the collection.
Folder 19
Volume 1: Charles West Jacocks accounts, 1819-1822, 28 pages
Accounts 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
Diary 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
Plot 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
"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
Shows streets and lots and some property owners' names. Ink and watercolor with "Oct. 1868" added in pencil.

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