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[Identification of item], in the Mary Farrow Credle Papers, #1853, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Deposit 1951

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, November 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

Updated by: Laura Hart, December 2021

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Beaufort (N.C.)--History.
• Beaufort County (N.C.)--History.
• Coastwise shipping--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Credle family.
• Credle, Mary Farrow, 1881-1946.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Farrow family.
• Farrow, Wilson T., 1837-1916.
• Hinton, Joseph B., 1788-1872.
• Hyde County (N.C.)--History.
• New Bern (N.C.)--History.
• North Carolina--Economic conditions.
• North Carolina--Politics and government--1775-1865.
• Respess family.
• Respess, Isaiah.
• Shipbuilding industry--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Slave bills of sale--North Carolina.
• Slavery--North Carolina--History.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• Washington (N.C.)--Commerce.
• Washington (N.C.)--History.

• Isaiah Respess Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C.

Mary Elizabeth Farrow Credle (1881-1946) was the daughter of Wilson T. Farrow (1837-1916) and Mary Elizabeth (Respess) Farrow (1846-1905). She married Walter Credle in 1908 and they had three daughters, Sophia, Florence, and Mary.

The collection contains chiefly business papers (deeds, accounts, receipts, contracts, letters), but also personal correspondence preserved by Mary Farrow (Mrs. Walter) Credle from preceding generations of the Credle, Farrow, and Respess families in Beaufort and Hyde counties, N.C. Members of the families were engaged in coastwise shipping, maintaining ships, buying and selling lands and slaves, farming and other businesses. Included are papers of Isaiah Respess, merchant and trader, who was imprisoned alternately by the Confederate and Federal authorities during the Civil War; the Reverend Joseph B. Hinton (1788-1872), antebellum state legislator, of Beaufort County and Raleigh, N.C.; Wilson T. Farrow (1837-1916) of Ocracoke Island and Washington, N.C.; and their kin. Earlier papers are Beaufort and Hyde county deeds; material after 1894 is sparse. The Civil War items document Isaiah Respess's mercantile activities in New Bern and Beaufort, N.C., while under Union occupation, trading with New York firms.

• Oversize volume (SV-1853/6)
• Oversize papers (X-OPF-1853/1)