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folder 003: Correspondence, 1788–1789
Chiefly financial records and correspondence of John Haywood for his work as a commissioner in Tarborough to purchase tobacco for the state of North Carolina and as state treasurer of North Carolina. Also included are items relating to Haywood's personal financial affairs: bills for goods,...
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folder 012: Correspondence, January–May 1795
Enslaved people are documented in a will, 6 March, in which Eliza Kennon bequeathed three enslaved people, Dick, Lucy, and Lucy's son David, to her son William Kennon; an enslaved girl Hannah, who was the daughter of Dianna, to her granddaughter Elizabeth Warren Kennon; an enslaved boy named Ben...
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folder 030: Correspondence, June–October 1800
June 16 and 26, a legal agreement concerning Saul, an enslaved man who died in an accident while working on raising a house for John Haywood in Wake County, N.C. Saul was enslaved by W. Reese Brewer. Other materials include letters from David Stone, John Steele, W. H. Hill, Nathaniel Macon,...
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folder 031a: Correspondence, November–December 1800
November 22, a bill of sale in which Cate, an enslaved woman, and her children David and Montford, were sold by Nathaniel Lane of Wake County, N.C., to John Haywood. Cate, David, and Montford previously had been enslaved by Mary Lane, and before that her husband Joel Lane. Other materials...
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folder 132: Correspondence, January–June 1830
Bills of sale in which enslaved people were purchased from the estate of John Haywood by John S. Haywood, George M. Haywood, B. A. Barham, Wyatt Harrison, Eliza E. Haywood, and William H. Haywood (folders 132-133). March 21, an indenture in which Dave (about 33 years old), Tom (about 38 years...
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folder 133: Correspondence, July–December 1830
Bills of sale in which enslaved people were purchased from the estate of John Haywood by John S. Haywood, George M. Haywood, B. A. Barham, Wyatt Harrison, Eliza E. Haywood, and William H. Haywood (folders 132-133). August 15, an indenture, in which a group of enslaved people were conveyed by...
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folder 134: Correspondence, January–July 1831
January 1, a valuation in which enslaved people are documented: Sam, Jerry, Green, Mary and her child Simon, Sceny, Boen, Ceity, Jane, Shade. The valuation was compiled for the heirs of John Williams (folder 134). A bill of sale indicating that enslaved people were purchased by John Steele...
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folder 138: Correspondence, August–December 1832
August 12 and 16, legal documents in which heirs Rebecca Tucker, Joseph Tucker, William R. Tucker, and Augustus Tucker of Pleasant Tucker and Mary Tucker of Carroll County, Tenn., sought remedies in court for losses incurred when the courts of Wake County sold enslaved people to settle estate...
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folder 146: Correspondence, January–May 1836
March 8, a will that documents Ned (about 40 years old), Fereby (about 35 years old), and her children Jack (about 10 years old) and Sam (about 7 years old) April 23 and May 20, letters in which Allen, a man enslaved by Harrison Terrell, was mentioned as a victim of an attempted lynching....
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folder 156: Correspondence, January–May 1839
January 4, a letter about Rachel, an enslaved woman who had self-emancipated to Raleigh, N.C. The letter is from Joseph I. Dillard, Hinds City, Miss., to William Hutchins (folder 156). March 17, a letter in which Henry, an enslaved person, was offered as security against a claim, with the...
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