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No restrictions. Open for research.

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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the John Lancaster Bailey Papers #39, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

All or part of this collection is available on microfilm from University Publications of America as part of Southern women and their families in the 19th century, Series A.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. Lyman Cotten and Mary F. Henderson of Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1935-1938 and 1965, in March 1973 from the Archibald Henderson estate, and in August 1973 from Mrs. Alfred G. Engstrom of Chapel Hill.

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.

Processed by: Brooke Allan, December 1969; Roslyn Holdzkom, December 1992

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

This inventory is built on an inventory compiled by Brooke Allan in 1969 and Carolyn Wallace in 1973. Items from the original accessions are described on pages 5-9, those from the 1973 Archibald Henderson addition are described on pages 10-14, and those from the Engstrom addition are described on page 15. The 1973 Henderson items have been merged into materials from the original accession and items from the 1973 Engstrom addition are in folder 19.

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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• Aberdeen (Miss.)--Social life and customs.
• Bailey family.
• Bailey, John Lancaster, 1795-1877.
• Bailey, Priscilla Brownrigg, 1800-1874.
• Brown family.
• Brownrigg family.
• Buncombe County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Burke County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Cain family.
• Cain, Elizabeth B., 1850-1929.
• Cain, Sarah Jane Bailey, 1828-1927.
• Cain, Wm. (William), 1847-1930.
• Chowan County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Columbus (Miss.)--Social life and customs.
• Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Participation, Children.
• Families--Mississippi--Social life and customs.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Hillsborough (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Orange County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Pasquotank County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Perquimans County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Plantation life--North Carolina.
• Plantations--North Carolina.
• Railroads--North Carolina.
• Railroads--South Carolina.
• Slave bills of sale--North Carolina.
• Women--Southern States--Social life and customs.

• Brownrigg Family Papers (#2226); William Cain

John Lancaster Bailey was a resident of Pasquotank County, N.C., then Hillsborough, and, finally, Asheville, N.C. He was a superior court judge, served in the state legislature, 1827-1830, and was a delegate to the state convention of 1835. Bailey married Priscilla Brownrigg of Edenton, N.C., in 1821. Their daughter was Sarah Jane Bailey Cain (1828-1927), wife of William Cain (d. 1855) of Orange County. Among their grandchildren were Elizabeth B. Cain (1850-1929), who married John Steele Henderson in 1874, and William Cain (1847-1930), engineer and professor of mathematics at the University of North Carolina.

The collection is chiefly family correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Bailey, his wife Priscilla Brownrigg Bailey, and other family members. Papers concerning Bailey's public interests and career are sparse. The correspondence among family members and the letters received by them from numerous relatives and friends provide descriptions of the activities and interests of many planter families in Pasquotank, Perquimans, Chowan, Orange, and Buncombe counties, N.C.; in southeastern Virignia; and around Columbus and Aberdeen, Miss. There are also letters from family and friends in Tennessee, Alabama, and South Carolina. Letters from civilians in Federal-occupied eastern North Carolina are included as are letters from William Cain serving as drillmaster in Confederate army camps at age 13. Postwar letters include those from William while surveying railroad lines in North and South Carolina. Among the families represented in the collectin are the Bailey, Brownrigg, Brown, Sawyer, Scott, Cross, Granberry, Johnson, and Dillard inthe coastal area; Cain, Ruffin, and Caldwell in Orange and Burke counties, N.C.; and Brownrigg and Sparkman in Mississippi. Also included are deeds of gift, 1840s and 1850s bills of sale for slaves, drawings, Sarah Cain's scrapbooks and reminiscences, and a detailed map of Hillsborough, N.C., circa 1839, and related items.

• Oversize volume (SV-39/5)