Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill

SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

#4902-z
NEUSE RIVER FERRY COMPANY RECORDS
Inventory

Abstract:      Financial and legal records of the Neuse River
           Ferry Company include survey contracts, indenture
           contracts, loan contracts, promissory notes, company
           share certificates, sales receipts for materials,
           deeds, and tax receipts. There are also will and
           related probate materials of Malachi Potter, the
           original owner of the company, and later deeds of his
           son, William Potter. There is also one unidentified
           tintype photograph.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Ferries—North Carolina—History—19th century.
   Neuse River Ferry Company.
   Potter, Malachi.
   Potter, William.

Size:  About 40 items.

Date Span: 1827-1891.

Provenance:    Purchased from J. Douglas Mattox of Raleigh, N. C.
               on 20 November 1997 (Acc. 97152).

Access:        No restrictions.

Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
           their descendants, as stipulated by United States
           copyright law.