Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
#1468
LEAK AND WALL FAMILY PAPERS
Inventory
Abstract: Chiefly business correspondence and accounts of
John W. Leak (1816-1876), Rockingham, N.C., planter,
with commission merchants; and family papers, 1877-
1897, of his son-in-law, Henry Clay Wall (1841-1899).
Volumes include a record, 1833-1847, of the Rockingham
Sabbath School; antebellum plantation and slave
records; personal accounts; diary of H. C. Wall, 1862,
in Virginia while serving in the 23rd North Carolina
Regiment, C.S.A., and in 1869; diary of Fannie Leak
Wall, 1869-1870; financial records, 1861-1864, for the
Richmond County (N.C.) Relief Committee for the
Families of Volunteers; and scrapbooks.
Online Catalog Terms:
Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry
Regiment, 23rd.
Diaries--North Carolina--History--19th century.
Diaries--Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Leak family.
Leak, John W., 1816-1876.
North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Civilian
relief.
Plantation owners--North Carolina.
Plantations--North Carolina.
Richmond County (N.C.)--Economic conditions--Civil War, 1861-
1865.
Rockingham County (N.C.)--Economic conditions--19th century.
Sabbath schools--North Carolina--Rockingham County--History--
19th century.
Slave records--North Carolina.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Civilian relief.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal
narratives.
Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives,
Confederate.
Wall family.
Wall, Fannie Leak, fl. 1869-1870.
Wall, Henry Clay, 1841-1899.
Women--North Carolina--Diaries--History--19th century.
Size: About 200 items (1.0 linear feet).
Provenance: Received from Mrs. Henry C. Wall of Rockingham,
N.C., in May 1948.
Access: No restrictions.
Processing Note: This collection was processed with support
from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
or their descendants, as stipulated by United
States copyright law.
Table of Contents:
Series Descriptions
Series 1. Business Papers and Related Material
Series 2. Volumes
Series 3. Microfilm
Shelf List
SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
Series 1. Business Papers and Related Material
1785-1897 and undated. About 185 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Chiefly bills, accounts, and scattered business letters with
commission merchants and others of John Wall Leak (1816-1876).
Early papers consist of deeds and indentures from North and South
Carolina, 1785-1791. There is a group of papers, 1861-1863,
pertaining to the Richmond County Relief Committee for the
Families of Volunteers for which John W. Leak was treasurer.
These papers consist of reports to the Central Committee from
District committees, general records and accounts, individual
applications and receipts for aid, and statements of individual
allowances. There are also papers of Ann C. Leak as
administrator of her husband's estate, 1877-1878, and a copy of
his will, 1876. Leak's daughter, Fannie (1847-1921) married
Henry Clay Wall (1841-1899), and there is scattered family papers
from them.
Folder 1 1785-1842
2 1853-1859
3 1860-1863
4 1861-1863 (Relief Committee)
5 1865-1866
6 1867
7 1868-1869
8 1870-1897
9 Undated
Series 2. Volumes
1833-1872. 12 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Folder 10 Volume S-1: 1833-1847, 63 pp. Rockingham Sabbath
School records and library records.
Folder 11 Volume S-2: 1833-1872, 150 pp. Early accounts of
Stephen Wall, the estate of Martha P. Davis, and
Henry C. Wall's accounts of general supplies.
Folder 12 Volume 3: 1839-1845, 150 pp. Miscellaneous
notes; accounts; lists of slaves, 1839-1841; and
farming and planting records, 1842-1845, of John
W. Leak.
Folder 13 Volume S-4: 1843-1854, 1867, 50 pp. Day book of
John W. Leak with miscellaneous accounts and farm
records.
Folder 14 Volume 5: 1854-1856, 24 pp. Pocket account book
of John W. Leak.
Folder 15 Volume 6: 1861-1864, 50 pp. Financial records of
the Committee for the Relief of Families of
Volunteers in Richmond County, N.C., John W. Leak,
agent.
Folder 16 Volume 7: 1862, 1869, 63 pp. Journal of Henry C.
Wall, Pee Dee Guards, Company D, 23rd North
Carolina Regiment, with miscellaneous notes; notes
on Bethel, 1862; and accounts on crop record,
1869.
Folder 17 Volume 8: 1867-1868, 125 pp. Pocket account book
of John W. Leak.
Folder 18 Volume 9: 1868-1877, 128 pp. Henry C. Wall's
account of receipts and disbursements as executor
of the estate of Mial Wall.
Folder 19 Volume 10: 1869-1870, 112 pp. Diary of Fannie
Leak.
Folder 20 Volume 11: 1872, 16 pp. Pocket account book of
John W. Leak.
Folder 21 Volume 12: Undated, 6 pp. Pocket account book of
a few stray accounts and lists.
Folder 22 Volume S-13: 1872-1874, 119 pp. "Grief Book No.
5" by Walter F. Leak (b. 1797) with philosophy,
poetry, and musings addressed to his daughters,
Ann C. Leak, Hannah P. Steel, and Mary C. Scales.
Folder 23 Volume 14: 1875, 134 pp. Ann C. Leak's scrapbook
of her father Walter F. Leak's poetry.
Folder 24 Volume 15: 1877, 232 pp. Comments and writings
addressed to Fannie Leak Wall and her husband,
Henry C. Wall, from her grandfather, Walter F.
Leak.
Folder 25 Volume 16: 1880, 98 pp. Album and scrapbook
containing chiefly poetry from newspapers and
magazines. The name A. C. Leak appears on cover.
Series 3. Microfilm
1833-1870. 3 reels of microfilm.
Reel 1 is both on negative and positive film while reel 2 is
only on negative film
M-1468/1 Volumes 2, 3, and 4.
M-1468/2 Volumes 7 and 10.
SHELF LIST
Box 1 Series 1. Business Papers and Related
Material (folders 1-9)
Series 2. Volumes (folders 10-19)
Box 2 Series 2. Volumes (folders 20-25)
Items separated:
M-1468/1-2
V-1468/S-1; S-2; S-4; S-13