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 Haywood and George W. Haywood from the John Haywood estate (folder 134) February 22, a letter from William H. Haywood Jr. in Raleigh, N.C., to Eliza (Betsy), regarding financial transactions required to cover her debts related to the purchase of enslaved people. He referenced the scandal that involved both their families, the unfortunate state of his father's "pecuniary affairs with the State Bank," and how young Haywood was forced to buy some of this father's property (folder 134). March 30, a letter in which an enslaved girl and the eight people who descended from her in the following 40 years became the center of a legal dispute related to a mortgage placed on her 20-30 years earlier. The letter is from Elisha Siles in Chatham County, N.C., to George W. Haywood in Raleigh, N.C. (folder 134). Other materials include letters, 18 January, Judge Henry Potter, of Fayetteville, N.C., to Dr. Hudson M. Cave, Chapel Hill, about collecting a debt; 16 February, Marshall T. Pole of Charlotte, N.C., to John B. Johns or G. W. Haywood, about a legal matter; 19 April, Robert McKoy of Clinton, N.C., with an order for a Wedgewood mortar and pestle and smallpox vaccine from Williams & Haywood, Inc.; 29 April, I. T.(?) Haywood of Smithfield, N.C., to his cousin George W. Haywood about the latter running for political office and his chances; 30 May, Dr. J. T. Gilliam of Fayetteville, to Williams & Haywood, Inc. about the fire that had destroyed a large section of the town on the preceding day in which the drug supplies having been destroyed, Gilliam ordered supplies listing those most needed; August, advertisements sent out by Eliza Eagles Asaph Williams Haywood to state legislators offering rooms to rent during their stay in Raleigh; 1 August, William H. Haywood, Jr., on the death of his nephew, son of his sister Charity Manly; September-December, business letters of Williams & Haywood, Inc., from William Pickett of "near Hillsboro," M. E. Manly of New Bern, John T. Johnston of Hillsboro, Henry T. Clark of Tarboro, and other items from northern business firms.