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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 Isaac Jarratt Papers #3514, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Some materials available on microfilm.

• Reels 1-2

Additional microfilm available from University Publications of America as part of the Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series J.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased from Raynor Hubbell of Griffin, Ga. in November 1960; purchased from Rita Trotz of The Printed Page of Savannah Ga., in July 1973; photocopies of originals lent by J. Bruce Jarratt of East Bend, N.C., in August 1979 (Acc. 79300); purchased from the Jarratt Estate auction in Yadkin County, N.C., July 1996 (Acc. 96100); purchased from Charles Apfelbaum in March 2007 (Acc. 100614); purchased from Rinda Estes, June 2007 (Acc. 100693).

Sensitive Materials Statement

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Cherokee Indians--History--19th century.
• Choctaw Indians--History--19th century.
• Clingman family.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 26th.
• Families--Alabama--Social life and customs.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Indians of North America--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Jarratt family.
• Jarratt, Isaac Augustus, 1841-1890.
• Jarratt, Isaac, fl. 1812-1875.
• McNairy County (Tenn.)--Economic conditions.
• McNairy County (Tenn.)--Social life and customs.
• Montgomery (Ala.)--Economic conditions.
• Montgomery (Ala.)--Social life and customs.
• Puryear family.
• Slave trade--Alabama.
• Slave trade--North Carolina.
• Slavery--Alabama.
• Slavery--North Carolina.
• Surry County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Surry County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• United States--History--War of 1812--Claims.
• Yadkin County (N.C.)--History.

• Clingman and Puryear Family Papers (#2661)
• Isaac Jarratt Papers and Tyre Glenn Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University

Isaac Jarratt (fl. 1812-1875) was a soldier in the War of 1812, landholder, merchant, and partner with Tyre Glen (d. 1875) in the slave trade between Alabama and North Carolina from 1830 to 1835. During this period, he apparently lived in Montgomery, Ala., where he was apparently established in various businesses, but his primary residence was in Huntsville, N.C. His son, Isaac Augustus Jarratt (1841-1890), of Huntsville, Conrads, and Fayetteville, N.C., was a planter, merchant, and distiller. The younger Jarratt received an A.B. from the University of North Carolina in 1861 and served as a captain in Company C, 26th North Carolina Infantry Regiment of the Confederate Army, during the Civil War.

The collection consists chiefly of family and business letters, 1832 to 1890, and a few financial, legal, and military documents pertaining to the Isaac Jarratt family of Surry County, N.C. (now Yadkin County, N.C.), and Montgomery, Ala. Early items primarily concern personal news of family and friends and a variety of business transactions, including land and slave purchases, debt settlements, and the purchase of a carriage in New York City. Two 1835 letters to the elder Jarratt from cousins discuss one's resettlement in McNairy County, Tenn., and the other's travels through the Choctaw and Cherokee nations. Civil War era material consists of two 1864 military enrollment orders addressed to Captain Isaac A. Jarratt of the 26th North Carolina Infantry Regiment. Other items include an 1875 exchange of letters between the elder Jarratt and the federal pension office concerning his application for a pension as a veteran of the War of 1812; photocopies of birth and death records for slaves and former slaves of the Jarratt family from their Bible; photocopies of family records pertaining primarily to the Clingman family; a photocopy of a 1978 class paper about the "White House" of Yadkin County, N.C.; and a photocopy of a 1979 history of the Clingman, Puryear, and Jarratt families. The Addition of March 2007 consists of one small account book belonging to Isaac Jarratt listing transactions for goods bought, clothing and cloth, taxes, and traveling expenses. The Addition of June 2007 includes business and personal correspondence relating to the Jarratt family from between 1864 and 1929, as well as bills, receipts, orders and order forms, and a small book, The Death of Abel, inscribed to Hal Jarrett from "Auntie," 22 June 1891.