Inventory of the Leake Family Estate Papers, 1773-1913
Collection Number 1250
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- 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
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Leake family.
- Title
- Leake Family Estate Papers, 1773-1913.
- Call Number
- 1250
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 5,000 items (6.5 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- Additional Descriptive Resources
- A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Leake Family Estate Papers, #1250, Southern Historical Collection, The 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.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Agriculture--Georgia--History.
- Estates (Law)--New York (State)
- Family--United States--Social life and customs.
- Georgia--Economic conditions.
- Lawyers--New Jersey--History--19th century.
- Lawyers--New York (State)--History--19th century.
- Lawyers--Scotland--History--19th century.
- Leake family.
- Leake, John George, 1752-1827.
- Leake, Richard, d. 1802.
- Plantation owners--Georgia.
- Plantations--Georgia.
- Real property--England--History--19th century.
- Real property--Florida--History--19th century.
- Real property--New Jersey--History--19th century.
- Real property--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
- Slavery--Georgia.
- Spalding, Sarah Leake.
- Spalding, Thomas, 1774-1851.
Collection Overview
Papers relating to the legal dispute of claims to the land holdings in New York City, New Jersey, Florida, and England of John George Leake (1752-1827) who died intestate in New York. Among the claimants was Sarah Leake Spalding of Georgia. Papers include notes, memorials, interrogatories, genealogies, and other evidence supporting various claims; correspondence of lawyers in Scotland, New York, and New Jersey; and other material relating to the claims pressed by collateral descendants for over 70 years. Also included are about 90 items--business correspondence, bills, and receipts, chiefly 1790s, some relating to slaves--of Sarah Leake Spalding's father, Richard Leake (died 1802) of St. Simons and Darien, Ga., and her husband, Thomas Spalding (1774-1851) of Savannah and Sapelo Island, Ga., cotton planters.