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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Toole Family Papers #4252, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Pembroke Nash of Tarboro, N.C., in 1948 and Jacquelin Pembroke Nash of Tarboro, N.C. in 1980.

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Materials received in 1948 were orginally accessioned as Edgecombe County Miscellaneous Papers (#1504). These materials were transferred to the Toole Family Papers in 1980, after it was established that they had originally been owned by family members.

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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Bellamy family.
• Blount family.
• Braswell family.
• Cotton family.
• Edgecombe County (N.C.)--History--18th century.
• Edgecombe County (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Nash family.
• Real property--North Carolina--History--18th century.
• Real property--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Slave bills of sale--North Carolina.
• Toole family.

• Microfilmed land records for Edgecombe County at the North Carolina Department of Archives and History.

Among the members of the Toole family of Edgecombe County, N.C., were Laurence Toole (1708-1761) and his wife, Sabra Irwin Toole (1719-1789), of Shiloh Plantation, which was located about three miles up the Tar River from Tarboro. Their son Henry Irwin Toole (1750-1790) married Elizabeth Haywood, with whom he had daughters: Mary (1787-1958), who married Theophilus Parker (1775-1849) of Tarboro; and Arabella (1783-1860), who married James West Clark (1779-1843).

Mary and Theophilus Parker's daughter was Elizabeth Toole (1820-1895), who married the Reverend Joseph Blount Cheshire and had Annie Gray Cheshire, who married S. S. Nash. Catherine Caroline was also a daughter of Theophilus and Mary; she married the Reverend Robert Brent Drane (1797 [or 1800]-1862).

Arabella and James West Clark's daughter was Mary Sumner, who married Geroge Thomas and had Jordan Sumner.

Chiefly items relating to the buying and selling of land in Edgecombe County, N.C. Some of the items are directly related to members of the Toole family, but others appear to have been collected by family members, who were perhaps attempting to gather evidence to be used in property disputes. Included are materials documenting ownership of land by members of the Bellamy, Blount, Braswell, Cotten, and Nash families, among others. Also included are a few bills, receipts, wills, and legal documents relating to court actions, chiefly property disputes. During the 1840s and 1850s, there are a small number of slave bills of sale.

Materials have been roughly sorted by decade.

• Oversize paper folder (OPF-4252/1)
• Extra-oversize paper folder (X-OPF-4252/1)