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[Identification of item], in the Leigh and Winslow Family Papers #4028, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Lucille Winslow (Mrs. Julian Emmitt) of Hertford, N.C., in July 1978.

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• Aerial photography--History--20th century.
• Air pilots, Military--United States.
• Airplanes, Military--United States--Photographs.
• Estates (Law)--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Flight training--United States--History.
• Galveston (Tex.)--Aerial photographs.
• Houston (Tex.)--Aerial photographs.
• Land's End Plantation (N.C.)
• Legislators--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Leigh family.
• Leigh, Edward Augustus, 1825-1901.
• Leigh, James, 1781-1854.
• Mentally ill--Commitment and detention--United States--History--19th century.
• North Carolina--Politics and government.
• North Carolina. General Assembly. Senate--History--20th century.
• Perquimans County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Plantations--North Carolina--Perquimans County.
• Slavery--North Carolina.
• Soldiers--United States--Correspondence.
• United States. Army. Air Corps--History--World War, 1914-1918.
• Winslow family.
• Winslow, Julian Emmett, 1897-1975.
• World War, 1914-1918--United States--Photographs.

Gilbert Leigh (1729-1792) was a carpenter in Chowan and Perquimans Counties, N.C. His son, James Leigh (1781-1854) owned a plantation in Perquimans County, where he also served as a deputy sheriff, officer in the militia, and representative to the House of Commons. He eventually became one of the wealthiest men in the county.

In 1802, James Leigh married Mary Barclift, who died in 1823. In 1825, he married Susan Banks. He died in 1854, survived by six of his twelve children, including Edward Augustus Leigh (1825-1901), who inherited the family plantation. At the time of his father's death, Edward Augustus Leigh also was named guardian of his brother James Leigh, Jr., whom he placed in an insane asylum in Pennsylvania. In 1860, Edward Augustus Leigh's tax payments provided about 3% of Perquimans County's revenue. He lost much of his wealth following the Civil War.

Edward Augustus Leigh married Margaret Stevenson Jacocks in 1846; she died in 1850. In 1857, he married her half-sister, Grizzell Emily Jacocks (1838-1903). One of his children, Martha (Mattie) Gordon Leigh (b. 1868), married Charles Cook Winslow (1861-1909).

Among Martha Gordon Leigh and Charles Cook Winslow's six children was Julian Emmitt Winslow (1897-1975), an oil jobber and manufacturer of liquid fertilizers. He also was a flight instructor in the Army Air Corps during World War I. From 1932 to 1946, he served as sheriff of Perquimans County. An active member of the Democratic Party, he was elected to the State Senate in 1949, 1951, 1959, 1961, and 1965. From 1953 to 1957, he was a member of the State Highway Commission.

The collection includes letters to Edward Augustus Leigh and other family members, 1877-1938, chiefly discussing routine business, financial, and personal matters. There are also receipts and account books, 1752-1902, relating to the purchase of agricultural and other items and to farm maintenance, including a few mentioning slaves and several pertaining to the confinement of Edward's brother, James Leigh, Jr., in an insane asylum, 1855-1856. Biographical and probate records, 1767-1976, are largely wills and estate papers, many of them relating to James Leigh's estate, and other items of genealogical interest. Julian Emmitt Winslow papers include Winslow's correspondence during his 1959 and 1961 North Carolina Senate terms. Also included is some personal correspondence and material about his World War I military service. There are also many photographs and postcards dating from around World War I. These include pictures of aircraft and pilots, plane crashes, a flood, and aerial views of various locations, including Houston and Galveston, Tex.

• Oversize volumes (SV-4028/1-2)
• Photographs (PF-4028/1-5)