About
The Haywood family was a politically and socially influential white family in Raleigh, N.C., with plantations dependent on enslaved labor in Edgecombe County, N.C., and in Greene County and Marengo County, Alabama. The collection includes correspondence, business papers, legal documents, medical records, account books, pictures, and other items documenting the lives of members of the Haywood family and their relatives, friends, associates, and people enslaved by them. Many items relate to the career of John Haywood (1755-1827) as North Carolina state treasurer, including much material on banking in the state and on state and national politics, 1790s-1820s. Other items relate to Haywood's plantation in Edgecombe County, N.C. There are also letters concerning students and various affairs at the University of North Carolina, 1790s-1880s. Personal correspondence especially documents activities of Eliza Williams Haywood (b. 1781), who was a member of the Raleigh Female Tract Society, her mother and sisters, and her children, circa 1800-1830. After 1830, many of the papers relate to the Alababam plantation and legal affairs of George Washington Haywood (1802-1890) and his cousin Alfred Williams (fl. 1825-1860). A number of papers and volumes relate to Edmund Burke Haywood (1825-1894), including records he kept of Confederate hospitals that he supervised in the Raleigh area. Other volumes include household accounts, plantation journals and accounts, merchant account books, guest registers for the Yarborough House hotel in Raleigh, recipe books, school notebooks, a volume, 1820s, of reflections on the social role of women and related matters, and "The Religion of the Bible and K W County Compared," by James Reid, 1769
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from folder 156: Wills & Indentures
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from folder 181: Wills & Indentures
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from folder 189: Wills & Indentures
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from folder 196: Lists of enslaved people
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from folder 220: Wills & Indentures
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