Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
#1135-z
NORTH CAROLINA MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS
Inventory
Abstract: Miscellaneous financial and legal papers, 1772-
1948, including documents relating to the settlement
of accounts, tax returns, estate inventories, bills of
sale for the purchase and rental of slaves, court
papers, and other items from many dates and locations
in North Carolina. Individual units have been
cataloged separately.
Online Catalog Terms:
North Carolina--Economic conditions.
North Carolina--History.
Size: 53 items (2 folders and OP-1135/1).
Provenance: Various.
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:
Unit Descriptions
Unit 1
Size: 36 items.
Dates: 1772-1867.
Provenance: Purchased from Munroe d'Antignac of Griffin, Ga.,
in July 1946.
Access: No restrictions.
Description: One bond, three notes, a Revolutionary pension
claim, and three estate papers, 1772-1837; three
letters, 1838-1840; tax notice, 1859, estate
inventory, 1864, and slave for hire, 1865; and
other records of individual court attendance and
charges for Chatham County Superior Court, 1861-
1867. The letters include one, 7 June 1838, from
George C. Mendenhall of James Town, Guilford
County, N.C., to William Albertson, Perquimans
County, regarding the estate of John Woodly and
Joseph Tow (or Tom or Tone), Sr.; a letter, 7
December 1838, from Thomas F. Jones of Raleigh to
John Wood of Hertford, N.C., asking for a
transcript of a law case and telling about local
matters before the Assembly; and a letter, 12
September 1840, from R. H. Smith, Washington, to
John Wood requesting that he and Mrs. Smith be
allowed to keep a servant girl longer than
originally agreed.
Online Catalog Terms:
Chatham County (N.C.)--History.
Courts--North Carolina--History--19th century.
Estates (Law)--North Carolina--History--19th century.
North Carolina--Politics and government--1775-1865.
Slaves--Employment--North Carolina.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Claims.
Unit 2
Size: 6 items.
Dates: 1786-1873.
Provenance: Received from F. W. Tuttle of Gainesville, Fla.,
in March 1969.
Access: No restrictions.
Description: Deed of sale of house and land, 15 July 1786, by
John Laughinghouse to Thomas Laughinghouse in
Beaufort County; receipt, 4 March 1808, signed by
R. Powell to Alexander Harper; bill of sale, 11
February 1820, by I. Bradley of New Bern to
Alexander Harper; bill of sale, 9 November 1847,
by Francis Harper of Pitt County to Henry Wingate
(two female slaves were sold for $1,000 in
settling the estate of Francis Harper's father);
record of auction, 1856(?), where the Harper,
Harris, and Wingate families were principal buyers
and a boy slave was sold; and a notice, 1873, of
the opening of Sarah Dawson's school.
Online Catalog Terms:
Beaufort County (N.C.)--History.
Estates (Law)--North Carolina--History--19th century.
Harper family.
Pitt County (N.C.)--History.
Real property--North Carolina--History.
Slave bills of sale--North Carolina.
Unit 3
Size: 2 items.
Dates: 1861.
Provenance: Gift of the Special Collections Librarian, Karl B.
Johnson, of Arizona State University Library,
Tempe, Ariz., in November 1971.
Access: No restrictions.
Description: Certificate of character for Susan Petteford, a
free woman, 26 February 1861, by the acting
justice of the peace of Granville County, N.C., W.
R. White. Attached is an official printed state
form, 5 April 1861, signed by the Granville County
Clerk of Court Augustus Landis, the Governor's
Secretary Graham Daves, and Governor John W.
Ellis.
Online Catalog Terms:
Afro-American women--Legal status, laws, etc.--History--19th
century.
Afro-American women--North Carolina--History--19th century.
Freedmen--North Carolina.
Petteford, Susan, fl. 1861.
Unit 4
Size: 1 item.
Dates: 27 April 1826.
Provenance: Received from Paul Koda, Chapel Hill, N.C., in
March 1976.
Access: No restrictions.
Description: Warrant for the arrest of Stirling Wheaton on
complaint of W. C. and R. Tucker, signed by Thomas
G. Scott, Justice of the Peace, Wake County, N.C.
Online Catalog Terms:
Warrants (Law)--North Carolina--History--19th century.
Unit 5
Size: 1 item.
Dates: 11 October 1818.
Provenance: Purchased from the Manuscript Company of
Springfield, Springfield, Va., in January 1977.
Access: No restrictions.
Description: Marriage certificate between Frederick Fulghum and
Piety Parker at the Contentney Meeting House,
Wayne County, N.C. The document includes the
names of 26 members of the Contentney Monthly
Meeting of Friends, most of them apparently
signatures, but some in the same handwriting.
Online Catalog Terms:
Contentney Meeting House (Wayne County, N.C.).
Marriage records--North Carolina--History--19th century.
Quakers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
Wayne County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
Unit 6
Size: 3 items.
Dates: 1845, 1865, 1879.
Provenance: Received from Minnie Leary Yeates of WIlmington,
N.C., in June 1977.
Access: No restrictions.
Description: Invitation to the funeral of John L. Leary (1818-
1845), Chowan or Perquimans County, N.C., 7 March
1845; notice of tax assessment, 18-19 July 1865,
Chowan County, N.C., W. E. Bond, Assistant
Assessor; and commission, 25 February 1879, of W.
J. Leary, M.D., as surgeon in the First Battalion,
Infantry, North Carolina State Guard (OP-1135/1).
Online Catalog Terms:
Chowan County (N.C.)--History.
Funeral rites and ceremonies--North Carolina--History--19th
century.
Leary, John, 1818-1845.
North Carolina. Militia--History--19th century.
Tax assessment--North Carolina--History--19th century.
Unit 7
Size: 1 item.
Dates: 4 May 1948.
Provenance: Received from Ann Lawrence Way of Charlotte, N.C.,
in April 1978.
Access: No restrictions.
Description: Letter from Mej. A. Legerstee in Amsterdam,
Holland, to Mrs. Samuel Lawrence, Raleigh, N.C.,
thanking her for the coal she gave his family,
describing the conditions in Holland during and
just after World War II, and expressing gratitude
from the Dutch to the American people.
Online Catalog Terms:
Netherlands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
Netherlands--History--1945- .
Unit 8
Size: 1 item.
Dates: 30 January 1923.
Provenance: Received by George E. London of Raleigh, N.C., in
March 1977.
Access: No restrictions.
Description: Letter from Mrs. William Johnston Andrews to "The
Johnstonian," c/o Jane E. Ward, Secretary,
Raleigh, N.C., announcing a gift to the
Johnstonian book club of a year's membership in
the "American Federation of Art Society."
Online Catalog Terms:
Andrews, William Johnston, Mrs.
Raleigh (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century.
Unit 9
Size: 1 item.
Dates: 19 November 1937.
Provenance: Transferred from the North Carolina Collection,
ca. 1978.
Access: No restrictions.
Description: Letter from Lawrence Wood Robert, Jr., Washington,
D.C., to Honorable J. [sic] Gregg Cherry,
Gastonia, N.C., introducing Eneas Africanus and
praising the book.
Online Catalog Terms:
Cherry, Robert Gregg, 1891-1957.
Edwards, Harry Stillwell. Aneas Africanus.