Correspondence, 1757-1768

Correspondence, 1769

Correspondence, 1770

Correspondence, 1771

Folder 8: Records of enslavement:

• 12 June 1771: Robert Reid, Harrisburg, to Richard Bennehan,Orange County, regarding delivery of Scrub, an enslaved child.
• 9 June 1771: William Johnston, Hillsborough, to Richard Bennehan, mentioning Tom as the enslaved delivery person.
• 8 September 1771: William Johnston, Hillsborough, to Richard Bennehan, Snow Hill, mentioning Tom as the enslaved delivery person and Jack, an enslaved person who asked John Douglass to purchase him so that Bennehan did not sell him further away.
• 28 October 1771: William Johnston, Suffolk, to Richard Bennehan, Little River, mentioning Moses, an enslaved delivery person.

Correspondence, 1772

Correspondence, 1773

Correspondence, 1774

Correspondence, 1775

Correspondence, 1776

Records of enslavement:

• 15 February 1776: Richard Bennehan to James Martin, Little River, mentioning Scrub and Tom, who were enslaved people.

Correspondence, 1777-1778

Correspondence, 1779

Correspondence, 1780-1781

Correspondence, 1782

Correspondence, 1783

Correspondence, 1784

Records of enslavement:

• 20 October 1784: Thomas Amis, Halifax, to Richard Bennehan, Orange, regarding Scrub, an enslaved person who was rumored to be in Norfolk after he self-emancipated by running away. Amis mentioned that a person enslaved by Cain had been apprehended and provided that information. Amis wrote that he would take Jim, an enslaved person, to assist in apprehending Scrub.

Correspondence, 1785

Correspondence, 1786

Correspondence, 1787

Correspondence, 1788

Correspondence, 1789

Correspondence, 1790

Correspondence, 1791

Correspondence, 1792

Correspondence, 1793

Correspondence, 1794

Correspondence, 1795

Correspondence, 1796

Correspondence, 1797

Correspondence, 1798

Correspondence, 1799

Correspondence, 1800

Correspondence, 1801

Folder 120: Records of enslavement:

• 4 December 1801: letter from George Anderson, Hillsboro, to Duncan Cameron, Petersburg, reporting on his use of violence against Jim, who was an enslaved person.

Correspondence, 1802

Folder 128: Records of enslavement:

• 2 April 1802: letter from John Cameron and Anna Cameron to Duncan Cameron, mentioning [Dinah?] and Jim, who were enslaved people.

Correspondence, 1803

Folder 159: Records of enslavement:

• 2 June 1803: George Anderson, Hillsborough, to Duncan Cameron, Stagville, reporting on the death and funeral of Walter, an enslaved person; the health of Nancy, an enslaved person. He also mentioned Lucy, an enslaved nurse who was caring for Nancy.
• 3 June 1803: George Anderson, Hillsborough, to Duncan Cameron, Stagville, mentioning Pauny, an enslaved waggoner, and the health of Nancy, an enslaved person.

Folder 161: Records of enslavement:

• 3 July 1803: Richard Bennehan, Stagville, to Duncan Cameron, reporting the death of Esther, an enslaved woman who was married to Phill, who died after delivering stillborn twins. He also mentioned that Nancy, an enslaved person, had recovered, and that other enslaved people at the plantation were well.

Correspondence, 1803

Folder 175: Records of enslavement:

• 21 February 1803: Rebecca Bennehan Cameron, Stagville, to Duncan Cameron, Martinsville, mentioning Abram, an enslaved delivery person, and Sukey, who was very sick, along with several others in the enslaved community who had sore throats.

Folder 185: Records of enslavement:

• 14 June 1803: Rebecca Bennehan Cameron, Stagville, to Duncan Cameron, Raleigh, mentioning the mental health of Agga, an enslaved person who worked in the house.

Folder 186: Records of enslavement:

• 25 June 1803: Rebecca Bennehan Cameron, Stagville, to Duncan Cameron, Hillsborough, mentioning the mental health of Agga, an enslaved person who worked in the house; work done by Nancy, who may have been an enslaved seamstress; and the expectation of the enslaved people that they would soon receive their provisions.

Correspondence, 1805

Correspondence, 1806

Folder 232: Records of enslavement:

• 22 January 1806: Thomas D. Bennehan to Rebecca Bennehan Cameron, Hillsborough, reporting that the health of the enslaved people at Stagville was improved and that Alfred, an enslaved person, had a bad burn on his arm.

Correspondence, 1807

Folder 262: Records of enslavement:

• 22 February 1807: Thomas D. Bennehan to Thomas Amis Jr., Charleston, S.C., mentioning an unidentified young enslaved person who had been claimed as property by Amis and left in the care of Captain Jenkins in New Bern, who then bound him out to someone else for training as a carpenter.

Folder 263: Records of enslavement:

• 28 March 1807: letter from Anna Cameron to Duncan Cameron, Hillsborough, reporting on a rumored threat on the life of their father John Cameron. Jack and another enslaved person had been accused of plotting to poison John Cameron. Anna Cameron also mentioned a previous fire at a Cameron house that allegedly was started by enslaved people.

Correspondence, 1808

Correspondence, 1809

Correspondence, 1810

Folder 306: Records of enslavement:

• 17 May 1810: letter from Thomas D. Bennehan, Stagville, to Duncan Cameron, Petersburg, mentioning Jerry, an enslaved waggoner.

Correspondence, 1811

Folder 324: Records of enslavement:

• 8 July 1811: Thomas D. Bennehan, Stagville, to Duncan Cameron, Philadelphia, mentioning Luke, an enslaved foreman at Stagville, and Ferguson, who may have been an enslaved person.

Correspondence, 1812

Correspondence, 1813

Folder 366: Records of enslavement:

• 3 October 1813: Rebecca Cameron to Duncan Cameron, Fayetteville, mentioning that Luke, who was an enslaved foreman at Stagville, had been sent as a messenger.

Correspondence, 1814

Folder 378: Records of enslavement:

• 21 February 1814: letter from M. R. Anderson to Duncan Cameron, Stagville, mentioning Fred, and enslaved person who had been bound out to Mr. Hubbard, a shoemaker; Mary Ann and John are also mentioned with regard to their recovery from measles.

Folder 393: Records of enslavement:

• 5 October 1814: Richard Bennehan, Stagville, to Duncan Cameron, Winton, N.C., mentioning Luke, an enslaved foreman at Stagville, and Solomon.

Folder 394: Records of enslavement:

• 19 October 1814: Rebecca Cameron to Duncan Cameron, mentioning the general health of enslaved people at Stagville who were suffering from agues and fevers but not bilious fevers, and in Person County where the health of enslaved people had improved. Jerry, who was an enslaved waggoner, and Solomon are also mentioned as having been away from Stagville.

Correspondence, 1815

Folder 406: Records of enslavement:

• 26 April 1815: Rebecca Bennehan Cameron to Duncan Cameron, Fayetteville, mentioning sickness among the enslaved people at Stagville, especially the death of Jim, the severity of Charity's illness, and Claricy who left Brick House to attend to her sick brother and then became ill herself.

Correspondence, 1816

Folder 421: Records of enslavement:

• 27 March 1816: Rebecca Bennehan Cameron, Stagville, to Duncan Cameron, Asheville, describing sickness in and general news about the enslaved community. "Little Ben," [Silla?], Jerry the enslaved waggoner, George, "Old Frank," and Jim are mentioned.

Correspondence, 1817

Correspondence, 1818

Folder 459: Records of enslavement:

• 1 November 1818: letter from Thomas D. Bennehan, Stagville, to Richard Bennehan, Raleigh, mentioning Jerry, who was an enslaved waggoner. Thomas D. Bennehan also reported on a fire in the blacksmith's building.

Correspondence, 1819

Folder 473: Records of enslavement:

• 20 November 1819: letter from Thomas D. Bennehan, Stagville, to Duncan Cameron, Raleigh, mentioning the health of John, Jude, and [Robin?].

Folder 474: Records of enslavement:

• 26 November 1819: letter from Duncan Cameron to Thomas D. Bennehan, Orange County, mentioning Jim, an enslaved distiller, and Lewis, who also was an enslaved person.

Correspondence, 1820

Correspondence, 1821

Correspondence, 1822

Correspondence, 1823

Folder 533: Records of enslavement:

• 14 July 1823: William Kirkland, Airmount, to Duncan Cameron, Stagville, mentioning an unidentified enslaved person sent to retrieve a mare who had been taken to Stagville for breeding.

Correspondence, 1824

Correspondence, 1825

Correspondence, 1826

Letter to Mary Anne Ruffin Cameron, 1826

Acquisitions information: Accession 101135

Correspondence, 1827

Correspondence, 1828

Folder 617: Records of enslavement:

• 5 February 1828: Fabius J. Haywood, Raleigh, to Duncan Cameron, Stagville, requesting that Cameron consider purchasing an enslaved family of 5 brothers, including a skilled carpenter and farmer/overseer. Haywood, who was administering to his deceased father's estate, sought to keep this family intact and out of the hands of speculators engaged in the trafficking of enslaved people. Duncan Cameron was known for intentionally keeping enslaved families together to instill loyalty and for having the financial capital to purchase a family of 5 young men.

Folder 633: Records of enslavement:

• 12 December 1828: William Anderson to Duncan Cameron, Fairntosh, explaining his intention to be an enslaver of only a few people.

Correspondence, 1829

Folder 636: Records of enslavement:

• 17 February 1829: Paul C. Cameron, Washington College, Hartford, to Thomas A. Cameron, Stagville, mentioning Luke, who was an enslaved foreman.

Correspondence, 1830

Folder 648: Records of enslavement:

• 2 January 1830: letter from Paul C. Cameron, Stagville, to Duncan Cameron, Raleigh, mentioning Pompey, an enslaved waggoner; Agnes; [York?]; and Jerry, an enslaved waggoner.
• 2 January 1830: letter from John Huske, Fayetteville, to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C., mentioning Joe, an enslaved person who carried the letter and delivered goods.

Folder 652: Records of enslavement:

• 4 March 1830: letter from Sandy Harris, Oxford, to Duncan Cameron, Stagville, reporting that Pompey, an enslaved waggoner, may have been making additional deliveries for profit.

Folder 651: Records of enslavement:

• 13 February 1830: Thomas D. Bennehan, Stagville, to Duncan Cameron, Raleigh, mentioning Phillip and Ned, enslaved people who were both sick.
• 13 February 1830: Rebecca Bennehan Cameron to Duncan Cameron, Raleigh, mentioning Daniel, a messenger, and commenting on the general health of the enslaved community at Stagville.

Folder 659: Records of enslavement:

• 7 August 1830: Thomas D. Bennehan to Margaret B. Cameron, commenting on the general health of the enslaved community at Stagville and Fairntosh.

Correspondence, 1831

Folder 670: Records of enslavement:

• 10 March 1831: J. G. Stanly, New Bern, to George E. Badger, Raleigh, discussing plans to traffic approximately 100 people who had been enslaved by his brother. Stanly reported his partially successful attempts to keep enslaved families together and in the same neighborhood against the demands of the Bank.

Correspondence, 1832

Correspondence, 1833

Folder 716: Records of enslavement:

• 24 July 1833: Thomas Ruffin, Raleigh, to Paul C. Cameron, Stagville, sending a message to his daughter Anne that he was not aware of any recent deaths among the people he enslaved.

Correspondence, 1834

Correspondence, 1835

Folder 742: Records of enslavement:

• 12 January 1835: letter from Paul C. Cameron, Fairntosh, to Duncan Cameron, Raleigh, reporting on measles at the Person County plantations. He also mentioned Cyrus, an enslaved miller.

Folder 748: Records of enslavement:

• 26 April 1835: letter from Rebecca Cameron to Duncan Cameron, Raleigh, reporting on a violent attack on Jim, who was enslaved, by Mr. Nichol. Joe, an enslaved person, was sent to Hillsborough to get Dr. Webb, who trepanned Jim.

Folder 752: Records of enslavement:

• 2 July 1835: letter from Paul C. Cameron, Fairntosh, to Duncan Cameron, Raleigh, mentioning Luke, the enslaved foreman; Lewis, an enslaved waggoner who may have been selling some of the Cameron's corn for his own profit; and Jerry, an enslaved waggoner for the Bennehans.

Correspondence, 1836

Folder 766: Records of enslavement:

• 5 April 1836: letter from Thomas D. Bennehan, Stagville, to Paul C. Cameron, Hillsborough, mentioning Virgil, who was an enslaved foreman, doctor, and the carrier of this letter.
• 7 April 1836: letter from Thomas D. Bennehan, Stagville, to Paul C. Cameron, Hillsborough, mentioning Virgil, an enslaved foreman, doctor, and the carrier of a letter to him and news from neighbors, and Ned, an enslaved person with expertise in breeding horses; he also reported that Phillip, Lewis, and Ephraim were sick, and that Jerry the waggoner had gone to Petersburg.

Folder 768: Records of enslavement:

• 21 May 1836: letter from Paul C. Cameron, Hillsboro, to Rebecca Cameron, Raleigh, mentioning that [Strephon?], who was enslaved, was sick. He also reported a conversation with Jim Ray, who also was enslaved.

Correspondence, 1837

Correspondence, 1838

Correspondence, 1839

Folder 817: Records of enslavement:

• 25 November 1839: Rebecca Cameron, Charleston, to Paul C. Cameron, Stagville, sending greetings to Esther, who was enslaved; Silla, who was an enslaved maid; and Luke, the enslaved foreman, and reporting that John and Mary Walker, who were enslaved, had been good servants on the trip.

Correspondence, 1840

Correspondence, 1841

Folder 847: Records of enslavement:

• 1 February 1841: letter from Duncan Cameron, Raleigh, to Paul C. Cameron, Orange County, N.C., mentioning Ben, an enslaved person who delivered goods.

Folder 863: Records of enslavement:

• 5 October 1841: Joseph B. Hunner, Stagville, to Thomas D. Bennehan, mentioning Virgil, who was an enslaved foreman, doctor, and the carrier of this message.

Correspondence, 1842

Folder 871: Records of enslavement:

• 1 February 1842: letter from Paul C. Cameron, Orange County, N.C., to Duncan Cameron, Raleigh, mentioning Davey and Daniel, who were enslaved waggoners; Allan and Georgina, who were sick; and Cyrus, who was an enslaved miller.

Folder 892: Records of enslavement:

• 29 December 1842: letter from Paul C. Cameron, Fairntosh, to Duncan Cameron, Raleigh, mentioning Luke, an enslaved foreman; Daniel who had been moved with his family to be a miller at Person County; Cyrus an enslaved miller; and Abner, who was an enlsaved person.

Correspondence, 1843

Correspondence, 1844

folder 924: Records of enslavement:

• 22 April 1844: letter from Anne Ruffin Cameron, Hermitage, Haw River, to Paul C. Cameron, Stagville, mentioning Minerva, an enslaved nurse, and Demps, an enslaved gardener.

Folder 936: Records of enslavement:

• 25 October 1844: letter from Paul C. Cameron, Hillsboro, to Duncan Cameron, Raleigh, reporting the plan to relocate enslaved people to Greene County, Ala.; he also mentioned Squire, an enslaved person who would assist him.

Correspondence, 1845

Folder 941: Records of enslavement:

• 10 January 1845: letter from Anne Ruffin Cameron, Fairntosh, to Paul C. Cameron, Macon, Marengo City, Ala., mentioning Jenny, who was sick with tuberculosis; the death of Jenny's brother Edmund on arrival in Greene County, Ala.; and Jim Ray, who was an enslaved person.

Folder 942: Records of enslavement:

• 18 January 1845: letter from Mildred C. Cameron, Fairntosh, to Paul C. Cameron, Marengo City, Ala., mentioning the death of Edmund, the poor health of Jenny, and Jem and Demps, who were enslaved gardeners.

Folder 951: Records of enslavement:

• 27 April 1845: Mildred Cameron, Raleigh, to Paul C. Cameron, Stagville, mentioning "Old Squire," Scilla an enslaved maid, and Dempsey, an enslaved cook.

Folder 971: Records of enslavement:

• 18 November 1845: Paul C. Cameron, Greene County, Ala., to Duncan Cameron, Raleigh, mentioning "Little Joe," Sandy, and Henderson. Also includes a list of enslaved people at Greene County, Ala., and the amount of cotton picked by each person on a single day.

Folder 973: Records of enslavement:

• 2 December 1845: Paul C. Cameron, Greene County, Ala., to Duncan Cameron, Raleigh, mentioning Henderson, "Little Joe," Sandy, York, Simon, and Lewis. Paul C. Cameron also described Toney's self-emancipation by running away and subsequent capture.

Correspondence, 1846

Folder 990: Records of enslavement:

• 7 August 1846: letter from Charles Llewellyn, Greene County, Ala., to Paul C. Cameron, Stagville, mentioning Eaton, Lewis, Martin, Orrin, Charles, Lizzy, Molly, and Polly, who were all enslaved people.
• 10 August 1846: letter from Thomas D. Bennehan, [? Springs], to Paul C. Cameron, Stagville, mentioning Matthew, an enslaved miller, and Virgil, an enslaved foreman and doctor.

Folder 993: Records of enslavement:

• 25 September 1846: letter from Paul C. Cameron, Fairntosh, to Duncan Cameron, Philadelphia, mentioning Virgil, an enslaved foreman and doctor who had delivered a letter and was traveling about caring for the sick; an Simeon, an enslaved person who was sick.

Folder 994: Records of enslavement:

• 4 October 1846: letter from John Sears, Raleigh, to Duncan Cameron, Philadelphia, reporting on the health of Lizzy's children Amy and Sarah, "Little John," Frank and Edward who were the children of Mary Walker, Milly, and Molly. Sears, an enslaved person, also mentioned Sam and Davy and asked that Cameron give a message to Lizzy.

Correspondence, 1847

Folder 1002: Records of enslavement:

• 5 February 1847: letter from Duncan Cameron, Raleigh, to Paul C. Cameron, Orange County, mentioning George and Davy, who were enslaved people.
• 5 February 1847: letter from W. F. Wade, Macon County, Ala., to Charles Llewellyn, Green County, Ala., regarding Milton, an enslaved person who had self-emancipated by running away.
• 8 February 1847: letter from Paul C. Cameron, Fairntosh, to Duncan Cameron, Raleigh, mentioning George, Squire, Henderson, Amey at Eno, Agey at Bobbitt's, and Cyrus, an enslaved miller.
• 9 February 1847: letter from Charles Llewellyn, Greene County, Ala., to Paul C. Cameron, Stagville, mentioning Sandy, Delphy, and Peggy, who were enslaved people.

Folder 1009: Records of enslavement:

• 30 May 1847: letter from Charles Llewellyn, Greene County, Ala., to Paul C. Cameron, Stagville, mentioning Eaton, Caroline, Liddy, and Fanny, who were enslaved people.

Folder 1013: Records of enslavement:

• 25 July 1847: letter from Margaret B. Cameron, Cape May, N.J., to Paul C. Cameron, Stagville, mentioning Mary Walker, an enslaved nurse, and Henry, an enslaved person.

Folder 1014: Records of enslavement:

• 10 August 1847: letter from George W. Mordecai, Raleigh, to [Duncan Cameron?], mentioning Davy, who was an enslaved person.
• 10 August 1847: letter from C. [L.?] Hinton, Raleigh, to [Duncan Cameron?], mentioning Davy, who was an enslaved person.
• 19 August 1847: letter from Paul C. Cameron, Fairntosh, to Duncan Cameron, Philadelphia, reporting that Virgil, who was an enslaved foreman and doctor, had been traveling about the plantations administering to the sick; and in Person County, "Old Hannah," the mother of Davy, was sick.

Folder 1022: Records of enslavement:

• 2 December 1847: letter from Paul C. Cameron, Fairntosh, to Margaret B. Cameron, Raleigh, mentioning Squire as the letter carrier, and reporting that Abner at Stagville was recovering from sickness, and that Luke, the enslaved foreman, was unlikely to recover. Lotty, the former housekeeper of Thomas D. Bennehan, also was sick.

Correspondence, 1848

Folder 1024: Records of enslavement:

• 8 January 1848: letter from Anne Ruffin Cameron, Stagville, to Paul C. Cameron, New Orleans, mentioning Davey, Abner at Stagville, Gabriel at Person, the death of Bill Green's infant, "Old Uncle Joe," and Jenny, all of whom were enslaved people.

Folder 1031: Records of enslavement:

• 19 April 1848: letter from Paul C. Cameron, Fairntosh, to Duncan Cameron, Raleigh, mentioning Virgil, Squire, Jim, and Luke, who were all enslaved, as well as Virgil Bennehan, who was emancipated by Thomas D. Bennehan's will and moved with his family to Liberia.

Folder 1033: Records of enslavement:

• 29 May 1848: Virgil P. M. Bennehan, Grand Bassa, Liberia, to Paul C. Cameron, Stagville, reporting of his family's arrival and sending individual greetings to many enslaved people.

Folder 1035: Records of enslavement:

• 30 June 1848: letter from Duncan Cameron to Paul C. Cameron, concerning Thomas D. Bennehan's will and the enslaved Umsteads and Duncan Cameron's proposed purchase of [William?], who was the son of Harriet, from Dr. Webb.

Folder 1037: Records of enslavement:

• 25 July 1848: letter from Paul C. Cameron, Fairntosh, to Anne Ruffin Cameron, Raleigh, reporting the death of Ben Sears, an enslaved tanner, and Fife, an enslaved child; and sickness of Romana and Simeon at Snow Hill, Jack and Henderson at Little River, and Gabriel at Person County; and George and Ben Umstead as the letter carriers.
• 28 July 1848: letter from Paul C. Cameron, Fairntosh, to Duncan Cameron, Philadelphia, reporting the death of Ben Sears, an enslaved tanner, and Fife, the child of [Lem?]; Daniel Watson, who checked on Ben while he was sick; the poor health of Phill, who was one of Minerva's twins at Bobbitt's; the extent of sickness across their plantations; Ben [Umstead?] as carrier of a letter; and plans for cleaning of quarters of enslaved people.

Folder 1024: Records of enslavement:

• 8 August 1848: letter from Duncan Cameron, Philadelphia, to Paul C. Cameron, giving departure date as August 9 for leaving Philadelphia. Mary Walker, an enslaved nurse, self-emancipated from the sisters around this time.
• 31 August 1848: letter from Anne Ruffin Cameron, Fairntosh, to Duncan Cameron, Raleigh, mentioning Virgil, an enslaved person who delivered the letter, and reporting on the enslaved people who were sick and in the care of Ben Umstead, who was also enslaved, and on Wilson, an enslaved person who was the son of Daniel at Stagville, who also was sick.

Correspondence, 1849

Folder 1068: Records of enslavement:

• 6 November 1849: Anne Ruffin Cameron, Raleigh, to Paul C. Cameron, Fairntosh, mentioning Jim, Sarah, and Davey's daughter Annie, all of whom were enslaved.

Folder 1069: Records of enslavement:

• 25 November 1849: Paul C. Cameron, Raleigh, to [Margaret B. Cameron and Mildred C. Cameron], remarking on the attractiveness of the enslaved maid of Coles; Simeon and Sarah, who also were enslaved, are also mentioned.

Correspondence, 1850

Includes description of a wedding in Fayetteville (8 February 1850).

Folder 1073: Records of enslavement:

• 5 February 1850: letter from Paul C. Cameron, Stagville, Orange County, N.C., to Margaret B. Cameron, Philadelphia, mentioning the failing health of William, the son of [Oly?], who was enslaved and at Bobbitt's, and Aunt Patty, who was enslaved and at Stagville. He also mentioned Harriet, who was an enslaved nurse travelling with the Cameron sisters in Philadelphia; Jim, who was enslaved and may have been the husband of Harriet; and Harriet's mother, who was enslaved and in Hillsboro.
• 13 February 1850: letter from John P. Webster, Greene County, Ala., to Paul C. Cameron, Stagville, Orange County, N.C., mentioning Molly, York, and Peggy, all of whom were enslaved people.
• 20 February 1850: letter from Paul C. Cameron, Raleigh, N.C., to Margaret B. Cameron, Philadelphia, mentioning household maintenance performed by [Oberly?], John, Stanley, and Allan, all of whom were enslaved.
• 28 February 1850: Annie Cameron, Raleigh, N.C., to Paul C. Cameron, Fairntosh, mentioning Patty and Mary, who were enslaved people at Hillsboro and Hard Scrabble, as sources of news.

Folder 1076: Records of enslavement:

• 18 May 1850: letter from Paul C. Cameron, Raleigh, to Duncan Cameron, Philadelphia, commenting on the health of unidentified enslaved people and mentioning Luke, who was an enslaved person.
• 28 May 1850: letter from Margaret B. Cameron to Anne Ruffin Cameron, mentioning Harriet, who was an enslaved nurse.
• 29 May 1850: letter from Duncan Cameron, Philadelphia, to Paul C. Cameron, mentioning Harriet, who was an enslaved nurse.

Folder 1079: Records of enslavement:

• 27 August 1850: letter from Duncan Cameron, Philadelphia, to Paul C. Cameron, commenting on acts of resistance by John Sears, who was an enslaved person.

Folder 1081: Records of enslavement:

• 11 October 1850: letter from Duncan Cameron, Philadelphia, to Paul C. Cameron, mentioning Virgil, who was an enslaved person.
• 15 October 1850: letter from Paul C. Cameron to Duncan Cameron, Philadelphia, reporting the death of Sarah, who was an enslaved person and the wife of Daniel.

Folder 1082: Records of enslavement:

• 14 November 1850: letter from Paul C. Cameron, Raleigh, to Duncan Cameron, Philadelphia, mentioning Lizzy, who was an enslaved person.

Folder 1083: Records of enslavement:

• December 1850: letter from Anne Ruffin Cameron, Raleigh, to Paul C. Cameron, Fairntosh, mentioning Ben, who was an enslaved person, as the letter carrier.
• December 1850: letter from Duncan Cameron, Raleigh, to Paul C. Cameron, mentioning Ben, who was an enslaved person, as the letter carrier and arranger of a trip; directions to be given to Sarah and Simeon, who were enslaved people at the Cameron house, for preparing the house for guests; expectations for appearances of Everline, Nanny, and Stanly, all of whom were enslaved; a wardrobe made by Dandridge, an enslaved furniture maker; and giving something to Zilpha, who was an enslaved person.

Correspondence, 1851

Folder 1088: Records of enslavement:

• 1 May 1851: letter from Paul C. Cameron, Fairntosh, to Duncan Cameron, mentioning Abner, Jim D., and [Belvin?], all of whom were enslaved people.

Correspondence, 1852

Folder 1098: Records of enslavement:

• 18 March 1852: letter from Phebe Bennehan, Baltimore, to her daughter Anna Bell, Raleigh, lamenting her separation from her enslaved family in North Carolina. She also mentioned William and Peggy, who had been emancipated by Thomas D. Bennehan's will, along with her and Virgil Bennehan.

Correspondence, 1853

Correspondence, 1854

Folder 1130: Records of enslavement:

• 10 June 1854: letter from Paul C. Cameron, Fairntosh, to Mildred C. Cameron, Raleigh, mentioning poor health of Miss Lotty, who formerly had been the housekeeper of Thomas D. Bennehan; Nancy, an enslaved person who was the "old" house servant; and Lewis, who was an enslaved blacksmith.

Correspondence, 1855

Correspondence, 1856

Folder 1153: Records of enslavement:

• 4 February 1856: letter from George Mordecai, Raleigh, to Margaret B. Cameron Mordecai, mentioning getting the right kind of cotton for Sylla, who was an enslaved seamstress.

Folder 1160: Records of enslavement:

• 12 August 1856: letter from Paul C. Cameron, Hillsboro, to Margaret B. Cameron Mordecai, Red Sweet Springs, Va., mentioning a visit to Miss Lotty, who was formerly the housekeeper of Thomas D. Bennehan, and reporting the death of Moriah, an enslaved nurse.

Correspondence, 1857

Correspondence, 1858

Folder 1178: Records of enslavement:

• 7 February 1858: letter from Anne Ruffin Cameron, Fairntosh, to Paul C. Cameron, reporting on "Whiskey George," an enslaved person who broke his leg while on an errand to fetch a doctor and then required an operation; George Sowell and Jane, Minna's daughter, who were enslaved people who were sick at Mr. Belvin's, and Horace, an enslaved person who was staying with Mr. Bobbitt, a white overseer who was sick.

Correspondence, 1859

Folder 1197: Records of enslavement:

• 4 September 1859: letter from J. P. Lesley in Philadelphia to Mildred C. Cameron in Raleigh, regarding Mary Walker, a formerly enslaved nurse who had self-emancipated from the Cameron family in 1848 by running away during a trip to Philadelphia for medical treatment of Mildred. Lesley wrote on behalf of Walker, who desired to be reunited with her children, Agnes and Bryant, who were enslaved by the Camerons. Her son Frank had self-emancipated from the Camerons by running away in 1852.
• 6 September 1859: letter from Samuel Piper at "Home" to Paul C. Cameron, reporting the number of enslaved people at Stagville, Home, Eno, Person, and Hillsboro locations.
• 15 September 1859: letter from W. J. Lamb in Tunica County, Miss., to Paul C. Cameron, reporting that [Kissie?] and [Benty?] had been sick with bilious fever, and that other unidentified enslaved people, approximately 6 to 8 per day, suffered milder symptoms.
• 23 September 1859: letter from Lizzie Jones to "My Dear Cousin" in Hillsboro, mentioning that travel by boat or railroad with enslaved people required a bond.

Correspondence, 1860

Folder 1203: Records of enslavement:

• 4 February 1860: letter from W. J. Lamb to Paul C. Cameron, reporting on Len, an enslaved person who had previously self-emancipated by running away.

Correspondence, 1861

Folder 1224: Records of enslavement:

• 7 November 1861: George Mordecai to Margaret B. Cameron Mordecai, reporting on his investigation of a break-in to the house that resulted in theft of white sugar, coffee, and liquor. Abner, John, and Philip, all of whom were enslaved people, were interviewed by Mordecai about the break-in.

Correspondence, 1862

Correspondence, 1863

Correspondence, 1864

Correspondence, 1865: January-April

Correspondence, 1865: May-December

Folder 1248: Records of Reconstruction:

• 2 June 1865: letter from Rebecca Cameron, Burnside, to Mildred Cameron, Raleigh, mentioning Annie, a freed person who stayed with Mildred, and reporting that "Uncle Ovid" [Jurdon] from Stagville, had brought his family and Mima to Hillsboro, and they were the only freed people to stay with the Camerons.

Folder 1249: Records of Reconstruction:

• 1 July 1865: letter from W. Oberry in Greene County, Ala. to Paul C. Cameron, mentioning York and Tony, freed people who had left the plantation but had returned. Oberry also reported that he had handed over management of the labor contracts with freed people to a Yankee officer in Demopolis.
• 1865: letter from Samuel Piper to Paul C. Cameron, mentioning John, Big Bill and his daughter, and [Ovid?] Jurden, who were freed people previously enslaved by the Cameron family.
• 5 July 1865: letter from S. H. Card, Person County, to Paul C. Cameron, mentioning Gabriel, who was a freed person previously enslaved by the Camerons, and the difficulty of motivating the labor force.

Folder 1251: Records of Reconstruction:

• 7 November 1865: letter from W. Oberry, Greene County, Ala., to Paul C. Cameron, describing the murder of a freed person without consequence, his use of violent threats to manage freed people, a violent conflict with Yankees and freed people who were attempting to steal cotton from the gin house, lawlessness in the area, and an outbreak of scarlet fever.
• 12 November 1865: letter from Thomas Ruffin, Alamance County, N.C., to Paul C. Cameron, Hillsborough, mentioning Isaac, a freed person, had served Ruffin with a notice to appear in court to pay him ten dollars per month.
• 27 November 1865: letter from Andrew Keven and Bros. of Petersburg to Paul C. Cameron, advising on the hiring of white and Black labor.

Folder 1252: Records of Reconstruction:

• 3 December 1865: letter from L. H. Card to Paul C. Cameron, mentioning Math and Ellis, who likely were freed people previously enslaved by the Cameron family. Card reported that Math and Ellis were willing to work in the field and take care of their grandparents.
• 22 December 1865: letter from Paul C. Cameron, Hillsborough, to Margaret B. Cameron Mordecai, Raleigh, mentioning Aimee King, a freed person who worked for the Camerons as a house servant.
• 31 December 1865: letter from George P. Collins, Memphis, to Paul C. Cameron, reporting on his arrival at the Tunica County plantation. Collins mentioned that John Spokman, a freed person who had traveled with the family and other freed people from North Carolina who were hired field workers, had already moved to live with Beloat. Collins also mentioned that Joe was likely to stay because of his wife and children; John Simon and Elias accidentally had been left behind at the Burkeville train station; and field workers preferred to contract for an interest in the crop rather than wages.
• 1865 (undated): letter from Samuel Piper, Stagville, to Paul C. Cameron, reporting that field workers had refused to cut any more wheat until their contracts were renegotiated.
• 1865 (undated): letter from Samuel Piper, Stagville, to Paul C. Cameron, mentioning Arch, Amy, and Jasper at Stagville; Joe at Snow Hill; and Anthony. Piper also reported on work slow downs and stoppages among freed people.
• 1865 (undated): letter from Samuel Piper, Stagville, to Paul C. Cameron, mentioning Joe. Piper also reported that freed people who were field workers were likely to reject Cameron's labor contracts at first.
• 1865 (undated): letter from Samuel Piper, Stagville, to Paul C. Cameron, mentioning that Joe, who at the time of this letter likely was still enslaved, had run off but returned.
• 1865 (undated): letter from Samuel Piper at Stagville to Paul C. Cameron, Hillsboro, mentioning Charles, Lem Jr., Math, Mitchel, Polly, and Kinchen.
• 1865 (undated): letter from Samuel Piper, Stagville, to Paul C. Cameron, Hillsboro, mentioning Charles and Betsy.
• 1865 (undated): letter from Samuel Piper, Stagville, to Anne Ruffin Cameron, Hillsboro, mentioning Nat.
• 1865 (undated): letter from Samuel Piper, Stagville, to Anne Ruffin Cameron, Hillsboro, mentioning Jude, Mehala, Betsy.
• 1865 (undated): letter from Samuel Piper, Stagville, to Paul C. Cameron, Hillsboro, mentioning Charles and Joe. Piper also reported on the status of work for the field hands.

Correspondence, 1866

Folder 1253: Records of Reconstruction:

• 8 January 1866: letter from Duncan Cameron, Commerce, Miss., to Paul C. Cameron, mentioning Green, who apparently had been enslaved previously by Paul C. Cameron in Alabama. Green travelled to Commerce to retrieve his daughter Nettie, who was married to Jephat. Duncan Cameron also reported superficially on the well-being of the freed people who were now working in the fields for the Camerons.
• 12 January 1866: letter from Ermine, Columbus, to Anne Ruffin Cameron, Hillsborough, mentioning a garrison of African American soldiers in Columbus, who after they were discharged sought employment in the area. The former soldiers were subjected to arrests. Small pox was also rampant in Columbus.
• 15 January 1866: letter from George P. Collins, Memphis, Tenn. while on a shopping trip, mentioning the ill health of the African American field workers and reporting on several freed people who were formerly enslaved by the Camerons: Old Lizzie was the cook and coupled with Harrison; Mariah was the nurse and coupled with Isaac; Ester, the daughter of Molly York, worked in the house; Joe and his wife possibly would leave; John and his wife had left already; Juba and his wife had remained, as well as Alec. Collins also requested that John, Simon, Elias, and 3 or 4 other laborers be sent to him.
• 21 January 1866: letter from W. Oberry to Paul C. Cameron, mentioning that he had hired many laborers who were familiar to him, including Monroe, but he had not Jim's family. Oberry also reported on the sharecropping terms (instead of wages) of their hire; an agreement to provide food, housing, fuel, and medical care to the farmers; a case of measles; and the prevalence of small pox in the area.
• 25 January 1866: letter from A. Wright, Memphis, describing very difficult financial burdens, needing to hire more laborers than were available to cultivate land in "the Bottom," the previous loss of potential hands when people enslaved by him were stolen while in transit from Georgia, and tenants and others having looted his property in Georgia.

Folder 1254: Records of Reconstruction:

• 4 February 1866: letter from W. Oberry, Greene County, Ala., to Paul C. Cameron, mentioning the challenge of hiring freed people laborers to move to Mississippi, seemingly without recognition that such a move would be disruptive to their lives. Oberry also reported that farm laborers were recovering from measles.
• 5 February 1866: letter from Maggie Cameron Mordecai, Raleigh, to Anne Ruffin Cameron, Hillsborough, sending affection to "Aunt Ellen," who formerly was enslaved by the Camerons as a house servant.
• 11-12 February 1866: letter from George P. Collins to Paul C. Cameron, mentioning Dave, Japhet, Mariah, Annie, and Juba, who were freed people who were formerly enslaved by the Camerons. He also reported that Japhet's wife had just had a baby and that the wife and children of John Sparkman had just gone to live with "Old Bettie."

Folder 1255: Records of Reconstruction:

• 3 March 1866: letter from Wilson O'Berry, Greene County, Ala., to Paul C. Cameron, reporting that the male laborers would work in the fields, but wanted their wives and daughters to remain at home, even on the condition that Oberry would only supply provisions for field workers.

Folder 1256: Records of Reconstruction:

• 17 April 1866: letter from George P. Collins, Commerce, Miss., to Paul C. Cameron, Hillsboro, mentioning Meekins, Allen, Lot, Japhet, Isaac, Dave, all of whom were freed people previously enslaved by the Camerons.

Folder 1257: Records of Reconstruction:

• 2 May 1866: letter from Wilson Oberry to Paul C. Cameron, Hillsboro, mentioning that the wives of field workers kept house and did not receive provisions. Oberry also asserted that many freed people were preachers.

Folder 1260: Records of Reconstruction

• 17 June 1866: letter from Wilson Oberry to Paul C. Cameron, Hillsboro, reporting that he had rewritten the contracts for 1866 such that the field workers would be required to work on whatever Oberry assigned them for 12 months of the year. He also mentioned that freed people often had visitors or were going visiting, a practice which had always been prohibited before but now was custom in the county. Finally, he assured Cameron that none of the field workers would be owed by Cameron at the end of the year; on the contrary, he would make sure it was the other way around.

Folder 1266: Records of Reconstruction:

• 23 September 1866: letter from Wilson Oberry to Paul C. Cameron, reporting on freed people's desire to work for crops rather than wages.

Correspondence, 1867

Correspondence, 1868

Correspondence, 1869

Correspondence, 1870

Correspondence, 1871

Correspondence, 1872

Correspondence, 1873

Correspondence, 1874

Correspondence, 1875

Folder ??: Records of Reconstruction

• 19 January 1875: letter from Paul C. Cameron, Hillsboro, to Margaret B. Cameron Mordecai, mentioning that "Old Joe Nichols," formerly enslaved carpenter, came and offered to sit up at night with young Duncan who was sick.

Correspondence, 1876

Correspondence, 1877

Correspondence, 1878

Correspondence, 1879

Correspondence, 1870s

Correspondence, 1880

Correspondence, 1881

Correspondence, 1882

Correspondence, 1883

Correspondence, 1884

Correspondence, 1885

Correspondence, 1886

Correspondence, 1887

Correspondence, 1888

Correspondence, 1889

Correspondence, 1890

Correspondence, 1891

Correspondence, 1892

Correspondence, 1893

Correspondence, 1894

Correspondence, 1895

Correspondence, 1896-1897

Correspondence, 1898-1914

Correspondence, 1915-1935

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Amis, Thomas

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Anderson, Daniel

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Anderson, Julia

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Anderson, Malcolm

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Anderson, Mary Read (Cameron)

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Anderson, Mildred ("Minnie") Ewing

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Anderson, Phoebe (Hawks)

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Anderson, Robert Walker

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Anderson, Mary Read

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Anderson, Eliza B.

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Anderson, William E. (children of)

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Anderson, Walker

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Anderson, William E.

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Anderson, William E., Jr.

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Bennehan, Mary

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Bennehan, Richard

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Bennehan, Thomas D.

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Buxton, Anna Nash (Cameron)

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Cameron, Anna MacKenzie

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Cameron, Anne (Call)

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Cameron, Anne Owen

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Cameron, Anne (Ruffin)

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Cameron, Catherine L. ("Cate")

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Cameron, Duncan

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Cameron, Duncan, III

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Cameron, Eliza Adam

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Cameron, Isabella (Wilkins)

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Cameron, Jean

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Cameron, John Adams

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Cameron, John Wilder, and "Altie" Gales

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Cameron, Katherine ("Kate")

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Cameron, Mary Amis

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Cameron, Mary Anne

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Cameron, Mary (Short)

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Cameron, Mildred Coles

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Cameron, Paul C.

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Cameron, Rebecca ("Beck")

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Cameron, Thomas N.

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Cameron, Thomas and Jean

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Cameron, William and son William

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Collins, Anne Ruffin (Cameron)

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Gales, Jean C.

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Gales, Mary A. Cameron, ("Mollie")

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Graham, Rebecca (Cameron) Anderson

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Jones, Eliza ("Lizzie")

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Jones, Mary C.

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Jones, Mary Read (Cameron) and R. C.

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Kirkland, Anna M. (Cameron) and her son Robert Strange

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Mordecai, Margaret Bain (Cameron)

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Nash, Frederick

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Nash, Maria

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Nash Family

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Peebles, Margaret M. (Cameron)

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Roulhac, J. B. G. and Catherine (Ruffin)

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Ruffin, Jane

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Ruffin, Pattie

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Ruffin, Thomas

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Ruffin Family

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Shepard, Mildred Coles (Cameron)

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Shepard, Pauline (Cameron)

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Syme, Jean M. (Cameron)

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Witherspoon, Eliza Cameron

Outgoing correspondence (undated): Unidentified Nieces, Nephews, and Cousins

Incoming correspondence (undated): A

Emma [Graves?] Alderman (Mrs. Edwin A.). Elias Alexander. Amelia [Johnston] Alves. Walter Alves. B. H. Ancrum. Annie Ashe. Caroline B. Ashe. Meta Ashe. R. H. Ashe. Sam P. Ashe. R. W. Ashton. Robert Atkinson. S. P. Atkinson. EBA.

Incoming correspondence (undated): B

Mrs. George E. Badger. George E. Badger. M. C. Batchelor. Kemp P. Battle. Pattie (Mrs. Kemp P.) Battle. C. Bayley. Miss Beach. Fannie M. Beall. G. T. Bedell. Robert Bell. [C. J. Benton?]. Josh Blake. Tempe Blakely. Ellen Boylan. Annie E. T. Bradford. G. S. Bradshaw. George Brasfield. James Briggs. N. L. Brodnax. A. Brown. Aunt A. Brown. Peter Browne. Mrs. John H. Bryan. Mary McLean Bryant. Sarah M. Bryant. David Buchanan. Benjamin Bulloch. Miss Burgwyn. Burnett & Rigdon. Horace Burton. M. A. Burwell. S. H. Busbee. Jarvis Buxton.

Incoming correspondence (undated): C

E. Cain. Mary C. Cain. T. R. Cain. W. Cain. David E. Caldwell. Elias Caldwell. Helen (Hogg) Caldwell (Mrs. Joseph). R. A. Caldwell. Harriet A. Carter. Jesse Carter. Agnes Mayo Carter. Joseph Blount Cheshire. Frances Child. C. R. Childs. William Coggin. [W. Cooke?]. James Cothran. Will A. Crawford. C. P. Curtis. Mary DeRosset Curtis (Mrs. M. A.). Moses Ashley Curtis. Mary Curtis. L. Czarnowska.

Incoming correspondence (undated): D

M. C. Dancy. W. Dandridge. Janes Daniel. Allen Jones Davie. Anna Devereux. J. Devereux. Kate Devereux. Margaret Devereux. Meta Devereux. Thomas Pollock Devereux. C. Dewey. Jesse Dickens. Samuel Dickins. John H. [Du Cartintz?]. D[orothea] L. Dix.

Incoming correspondence (undated): Letter to Duncan Cameron from Buchanan Dunlop, 2 October 1800

Formerly OP-133/90; this number is no longer in use.

Incoming correspondence (undated): E, F, G

Peter Early. [C. W.?] Edmonston. Franklin Felton. Hamilton Fulton. C. E. Gadsden. Joseph Gales. Mrs. Joseph Gales. L. S. Gales. Weston R. Gales. William Gaston. Andrew Gibson. James Gibson. Glass. S. W. (Mrs. William A.) Graham. Lucy A. Green. William Mercer Green.

Incoming correspondence (undated): H

E. J. Hale. George Haldane. James Hamilton (Granville County). Edward Hampton. J. Hawkins. W. J. Hawkins. Mrs. F. L. Hawks. John Haywood, treasurer. John Haywood, judge. Sherwood Haywood. William Haywood. W. H. Haywood. W. H. Haywood, Jr. Pleasant Henderson. Thomas Henderson. Mrs. Kate Henesse. E. Hill. E. H. Hill. Thomas B. Hill. W. F. Hilliard. C. Hines. Rowena Hines. Nellie Hinsdale. John Hogan. Gavin Hogg. James Hogg, Jr. M. W. Holt. W. Hooper. Helen Hughes. John Huske.

Incoming correspondence (undated): I, J

Mr. and Mrs. Iredell [James, Jr.?]. Lieutenant Johnson. William Johnston. Calvin Jones. Maggie Jones. Pride Jones. R. E. (Mrs. Cadwallader?) Jones. Robert H. Jones. Andrew Kevan & Bro.

Incoming correspondence (undated): K, L

F. S. Key. John N. Kirkland. Bryant Kittrell. Andrew Knox Lamb. Lawrence LeMay. [John Lenox?]. George Lightfoot. J. G. Lippett. J. Lippincott. J. R. Lloyd. F. Lock.

Incoming correspondence (undated): M

E. M. Ida M. W. P. Mangum. James Crew [McCaw?], Richmond, to Richard Bennehan. Benjamin McCulloch. M. McGehee. F. M. McKeithen. Cameron T. McRae. E. McMurtrie. Mary Mason. R. S. Mason. S. L. Manly. M. E. Manly. John Manning. Thomas C. Manning. Betty Marbury (34). H. H. Marbury. Juliet Marbury. Thomas Marshall to James Martin. M. Sue Marshall. W. Mebane. L. Mitchell to Thomas D. Bennehan. Mr. and Mrs. Miller. Ann Moore. Mary Moore. B. F. Moores. Adelaide Montmollin. Augusta Mordecai. Ellen Mordecai. Patty M[ordecai]. Henry Mordecai. M. Mordecai. John Motley Morehead (unimportant note). Martha Morse. H. Murfree. Carolina Myers.

Incoming correspondence (undated): N, O, P, Q

J. W. Nicholson. Hezikiah Niles. James Norwood. W. Oberry. Robert Nash Ogden. Wm. W. Old. Alfred Palmer. James Parks. Parsons & Co. Lydia C. Partridge. George Patterson. Jeanie Patterson. Samuel F. Patterson. Dane [Pealh?] Mittie Peebles. P. F. Pescud. K. W. Petersilia. Annie S. Pettigrew. J. G. Piper. S. Piper overseer, many letters. W. Piper. Andrew J. Polk. F. A. Polk. Leonidas Polk. Sarah (Mrs. William) Polk. William Polk. Ann Pollok (fragment probably to Mrs. Richard Bennehan). William Potter to Richard Bennehan. H. [J?] Pride to Thomas D. Bennehan. Annie Quayle.

Incoming correspondence (undated): R

Mary D. Ramseur. John Ramsey. Susan S. (Mrs. Kenneth Rayner. J. Reid. John Grant Rencher. Crawford Riddell. Rowland. John C. Rudd about Thomas Cameron. Mary Ryan.

Incoming correspondence (undated): S

R. A. S. A[nna] H[ayes] (Mrs. Romulus M.) Saunders. Romulus M. Saunders. A. M. Scales. W. A. Sharpe. G[ottlieb] Shober. A. Smedes. Bennett Smedes. Sadie S. Smedes. James Smith, Jr. Jesse Smith. Richard Smith. Venal Smith. John Snow. J. Southerland. P. Southerland. W. W. Spear. Cornelia P. Spencer. Mary Stanford. Robert S. Steele. Charles Stewart. David W. Stone. Mrs. Stott. Eben[ezer] Stott. Bettie Strange. F. K. Strother. Bryant Strowd. S. Strudwick. William B. Sullivan.

Incoming correspondence (undated): T, U, V

E. L. T. A. Temple. C. Townsend. Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. (committee). D. & M. Trokes. Asa Turner. J. Turner. S. C. D. Turner. W. D. Turrentine. U. N. C. Dialectic Society. Z. B. Vance. W. F. Vestal.

Incoming correspondence (undated): W, X, Y, Z

S. H. W. Hugh Waddell. John Wadow. Robert Walker. E. Althea Warren. James Webb. R. Webb. John R. Whitaker. B. Williams. E. B. Eilleston. George T. Winston. J. Witherspoon. A. Wright. J. W. Wright. T. Wright.

Incoming correspondence (undated): Unidentified writers; Fragments

Accounts, 1767-1768

Accounts, 1769

Account, 19 December 1769

Johnston & Bennehan with Buchanan & Cuniston.

Accounts, 1770

Accounts, 1771

Records of enslavement:

• 30 December1771: Johnston & Bennehan in account with Hamilton Godwin, including an entry for 2 unidentified enslaved people.

Accounts, 1772

Records of enslavement:

• 15 March 1772: List of debts due Richard Bennehan, including an entry for an unidentified enslaved boy on hand at an auction of enslaved people.
• 22 October 1772: Johnston & Bennehan in account with John Hamilton & Co., including an entry for 2 unidentified enslaved people.

Account, 31 August 1772

Johnston & Bennehan with Buchanan & Cunison.

Accounts, 1773

Records of enslavement:

• to 1 March 1773 (page 13): Snowhill account record, mentioning Scrub, an enslaved child who was trafficked in 1771 from John Halloway to Richard Bennehan.
• to 1 March 1773 (page 14): Snowhill account record, mentioning Jack, an enslaved person who was trafficked in 1771 from James Wilkinson to Richard Bennehan. Scrub, the enslaved child mentioned on the previous page appears in the record again in 1772.
• to 1 March 1773 (page 15): Snowhill account record, including aggregate total of debts incurred for purchasing enslaved people.
• to 1 March 1773 (page 16): Snowhill account record, indicating 2 enslaved children were trafficked in May 1772 from Thomas Marshall to Richard Bennehan; in July 1772 an unnamed child was trafficked from William Cain to the Bennehans and Peter, an enslaved child, was trafficked from Edward Harris to Richard Bennehan; there is a line for profit and loss for "abatement" relating to an unnamed enslaved person.
• to 1 March 1773 (page 13): Snowhill account record, mentioning Scrub, the enslaved child mentioned on previous pages appears in the record again in March 1773.
• to 1 March 1773 (page 18): Snowhill account record, including aggregate total of debts incurred for purchasing enslaved people.

1774

Records of enslavement:

• 1 March 1774 (page 13): Balances due Richard Bennehan, mentioning Scrub, an enslaved child at Snow Hill plantation.
• 1774: Thomas Amis in account with Allen Jones, including mention of Peter, Frank, Nan, Molly, Moses, and Dinah, who were enslaved people who had been trafficked by hiring out.

Accounts, 1775

Records of enslavement:

• 1 June 1771: Account record mentioning William, Thomas, and Peggy, who may have been enslaved.
• 31 August 1770: Account record mentioning hire of an unnamed boy, who may have been enslaved.
• 4 March 1772: Account record mentioning shoes purchased for Jack, an enslaved person.
• 31 August 1772: Account record mentioning hire of an unnamed boy, who may have been enslaved.
• 23 August 1773: Account record mentioning payment to Julius Burton for purchase of unidentified enslaved people at court.
• 20 July 1775: Peter Perkins in account with John [Litch?], mentioning expenses related to Joe and Milly, who were enslaved children.
• 4 January 1775: Johnson & Bennehan in account with Eilbeck Ross & Co., including purchase of 2 unidentified enslaved children.

Accounts, 1776

Accounts, 1777

Records of enslavement:

• 25 June 1778: Inventory of goods on hand belonging to Johnston & Bennehan, including Ester and Harry, who were enslaved people claimed as property.
• 12 July 1777: Receipt relating to [Beck?] and her daughter Betty, who were enslaved people who had been trafficked at public sale from Alex Telfair to Richard Bennehan.

Accounts, 1778

Accounts, 1779

Accounts, 1780

Accounts, 1781

Records of enslavement:

• 2 August 1781: Richard Bennehan in account with Hart, Rochester, Benton & Co., mentioning profits from trafficking of unidentified enslaved people.

Also included is a note signed by Captain Thomas Donoho, excusing Richard Bennehan and Hezekial Ferrell from the next draft of the Continental Army as a reward for their apprehension of Peter Macguire and John [Naybear?], who allegedly had deserted from the Maryland Line of the Continental Army.

Accounts, 1782

Accounts, 1783

Records of enslavement:

• January 1783: Robert Lanier in account with Duncan Rose, mentioning payment on bonds related to unidentified enslaved people.
• 1778-1783: Thomas Amis in account with Richard Bennehan, including an entry for the trafficking through hiring out of Daniel, Frank, Daniel, Dinah, Sall, Will, and George, who were enslaved people.

Accounts, 1784

Records of enslavement:

• October 1782: Cash account record, including an entry for a wool hat made for Phil, who may have been enslaved.
• June 1783: Cash account record, including an entry for cash paid to Maggy, who may have been a free Black person or an enslaved person, for 6 baskets, and to Peter, who may have been a free Black person or an enslaved person, for 2 riddles.
• December 1783: Cash account record, including entries for expenses related to the hire of Peter, an enslaved person who was trafficked by Colonel Thackston, and for Frank, who may have been a free Black person or an enslaved person who provided transport to Halifax.

Accounts, 1785

Accounts, 1786

Accounts, 1787

Accounts, 1788

Accounts, 1789

Records of enslavement:

• 3 November 1789: Richard Bennehan in account with David Buchanan, including entries for the sale of cotton specified for enslaved people.

Accounts, 1790

Accounts, 1791

9 February 1791: David Witherspoon in account with James McKinlay, including an entry for a quart of rum that may have been purchased from an unidentified free Black person.

Accounts, 1792

Accounts, 1793

Accounts, 1794

Accounts, 1795

Accounts, 1796

Records of enslavement:

• 1 January 1796: James Watson Jr. in account with William McQuisten, including several entries for sundries or cash paid to Andrew, who may have been a free Black person or an enslaved person (see 17 November 1792, 6 April 1793, 1 February 1794). Similarly, 8 April 1795 includes an entry for cash paid to Hannah to get sugar and coffee. Hannah may have been a free Black person or an enslaved person.

Accounts, 1797

Records of enslavement:

• 7 January 1797: Receipt signed by John Morgan for trafficking of the labor of an unnamed enslaved person by David Witherspoon in lieu of cash payment in fulfillment of a subscription toward the building of the Methodist Church in New Bern.
• 4 September 1797: Joseph Tagart in account with David Witherspoon, including an entry for the trafficking of the labor of Jack, an enslaved person, for a 3 year period ending 1 January 1797.

Accounts, 1798

Accounts, 1799

Records of enslavement:

• to September 1799: list of 13 children, including a set of twins, born between October 1796 and September 1799, who are identified by name and the name of their enslaved mothers.

Accounts, 1800

Accounts, 1801

Records of enslavement:

• 24 October 1801: Richard Bennehan in account with Watson & Stoll, including an entry for cotton intended for enslaved people.
• 8 March 1801: memo between N. Roberts and N. Scales, relating to the will of Thomas Rose, which bequeathed Patt, an enslaved person, to his daughter Jane Roberts. After Thomas Rose's death, his son Phillip Rose pretended that he had become the enslaver of Patt through a previous exchange with his father Thomas Rose. Patt was awarded to Phillip Rose who then trafficked Patt through sale.

Accounts, 1802

Folder 1936: Records of enslavement:

• 13 May 1802: Jesse Rhymes in account with the estate of Thomas Amis, including entries for cotton intended for enslaved people.

Folder 1937: Records of enslavement:

• 12 October 1802: List of balances due Thomas Amis, including entries for Dempsey Underdew and John Bell, who were identified as being of mixed race.
• 18 December 1802: receipt for payment for work performed by Sam, who was enslaved by John Winslow. Sam had painted the house of Duncan Cameron or G. Anderson.

Accounts, 1803

Folder 1938: Records of enslavement:

• 9 April 1803: list of 75 enslaved people, identified by name, who were sold on 31 July 1797 by John Dickerson to John Peace as part of a judgment against Dickerson.
• 5 May 1803: Dividend of Amis & Rhymes, including an entry for Jordan [Artest?] a free Black person, and Burwell [Colheck?] a person identified as being of mixed race.
• 5 May 1803: Jesse Rhymes share of the unsettled accounts due Amis & Rhymes, including entries for Hardy Richardson, [Burnell?] Francis, Richard Francis, Hardy Manly, [Cuba?] [Heathcock?], [Ozeia?] Dempsey, all of whom are identified as being of mixed race.

Folder 1939: Records of enslavement:

• 15 July 1803: Richard Bennehan in account with James Webb, including an entry for medical services for Betty, an enslaved person.
• 15 November 1803: Duncan Cameron in account with James Webb, including entries for medical services for Jim, Duke, Nancy, Abram, and possibly other enslaved people.
• 1801-1803: 2 lists of enslaved people identified by name who received shirts and blankets.
• 1803: list of 26 people identified by name and age who were enslaved by Rebecca Bennehan.

Accounts, 1803

Folder 1940: Records of enslavement:

• December 1803: Ready money sales, including an entry at 27 December for sundries for Edd, who may have been a free Black person or an enslaved person.
• April 1799-April 1803: Duncan Cameron in account with John Hogg & Co., including entries in 1801 and 1802 for Charles, an enslaved person who was trafficked by hiring out several times.

Folder 1941: Records of enslavement:

• 19 June 1803: receipt of payment from Richard Bennehan through William Cameron to William Boylan for trafficking through hiring out of Minerva, an enslaved person
• 26 June 1803: lists of debts and property of Duncan Cameron, including entries for Abram, Pauncy, Moses, Tom, Nancy, Jim, and George, who were enslaved people claimed as property by Cameron.
• 1789-1803: Thomas Amis in account with Richard Bennehan, including note that Thomas Amis would not charge for the hire of people enslaved by him; and a May 1789 entry related to transfer of half of the assessed value of Will, George, and Dinah, who were adults, and Donum (15 years), Old Sam (11 years), Paymore (9 years), Phebee (9 years), Claricy (7 years), Joe (6 years), [Taymor?](5 years), Jim Frog (2 years), and Peggy (2 years), all of whom were enslaved people.
• 18 October 1803: Duncan Cameron in account with William Kirkland, including entries that mention Jim, Nancy, and possibly other enslaved people.
• 1799-1803: Duncan Cameron in account with John Hogg & Co., including entries for Charles, an enslaved person who was trafficked through hiring out multiple times; and for shoes for unidentified enslaved people.

Folder 1942: Records of enslavement:

• 10 December 1803: the surviving partners of Bennehan, Cameron & Co. in account with Duncan Cameron for bonds and Dickerson's debt, including entries for Pauncy and Moses and for an unidentified enslaved person.

Duncan Cameron in account with Gracie Anderson & Co., 12 December 1803

Accounts, 1805

Folder 1944: Records of enslavement:

• 7 December 1805: Samuel Turrentine in account with Duncan Cameron, including a credit related to the trafficking of Hannah and her children Jenny and David, who were claimed and sold as property of Robert Bell.
• 31 December 1805: receipt for services rendered by Robert Eaton in the hiring out of unidentified enslaved people from the estate of Sally Moore. Duncan Cameron was the guardian of Sally Moore.
• 1805: dividend of the estate of George Moore, includes an entry for the deficiency of Sally Moore's share of the enslaved people. Duncan Cameron was the guardian of Sally Moore.

Accounts, 1806

Accounts, 1807

Folder 1947: Records of enslavement:

• 9 February 1807: Sally Moore in account with James Webb, including entries for medical services for Old Betty, an enslaved person.
• 9 February 1807: Duncan Cameron in account with James Webb, including entries for medical services for Maryan, [Calomel?], Jim, Nancy, [Columbo?], all of whom were enslaved people.
• 4 May 1807: Duncan Cameron account, with entries for various goods in February 1803 for Abram; in January, April, and August 1806 for Little Jim and Old Frank; in December 1806 for Mary; and in December 1806 and January 1807 for Daniel, all of whom may have been enslave.

Folder 1948: records of enslavement:

• 15 November 1807: invoice for lodging charges in Raleigh for Duncan Cameron, including an entry for related charges for an unidentified enslaved person who travelled with him.
• 19 December 1807: Duncan Cameron in account with John Gales, including an entry for advertising possibly related to the sale of unidentified enslaved people and land in Bibb County, Ala.
• 28 December 1807: receipt for services rendered by R. Smith in the trafficking through hiring out of unidentified enslaved people who were claimed as property by Sally Moore, for whose estate Duncan Cameron was guardian.
• 1807: Account of trafficking through hiring out of enslaved people, including entries for Bill, who was hired out to George Anderson; Abraham and his family to James Palmer; Betty Jr. to [?]; Sam to James Moore; George to John Kent; Glasgow to James Hastings; Old Jenny and [Alssey?] and her children to John [Risk?]; Dick to Henry Thompson; Cyrus to Jacob Green; Tony to Betty [Rob?]; and July to Jacob Green.

Financial material, 7 June 1807

Accounts, 1808

Folder 1949: Records of enslavement:

• 30 January 1808: Duncan Cameron in account with James Webb, including entries for medical services for Maryan.
• 24 March 1808: Duncan Cameron in account with Jacob Green, including entries for clothes for July and Cyrus, who were enslaved by Cameron and had been trafficked through hiring out to Green.
• 3 August 1808: William Bennehan in account with James Webb, including an entry for an operation on Charles, who was enslaved by Duncan Cameron or Thomas G. Amis.

Folder 1950: Records of enslavement:

• 10 October 1808: list of people enslaved by Sarah Moore McCulloch, including Toney, Betty, Joe, Esther, Abraham, Luch and three young children, George, Sarah, Nancy, Jenny, Jack, Rinah, Bill, Betty Jr., Dick, Cyrus, Sam, Glasgow, Dell, Phillis, Alssey and her 2 children Jenny and July.
• 15 December 1808: Duncan Cameron in account with Maben & Morrison, including an entry for sides of leather intended for use by enslaved people.

Accounts, 1809

Records of enslavement:

• 21 February 1809: Stagville accounts, including an August 1808 entry for Old Edd, who may have been a free Black person or an enslaved person.

Accounts, 1810

Records of enslavement:

• 9 November 1810: Statement of debts and effects of Duncan Cameron, including an entry for the valuation of 60 enslaved people.

Accounts, 1811

Records of enslavement:

• 22 February 1811: Duncan Cameron in account with Charles Parrish, including entries for boarding of an unidentified boy, who likely was enslaved.
• 29 July 1811: Statement of property of Duncan Cameron, including an unidentified enslaved girl.

Accounts, 1812

Records of enslavement:

• 27 August 1812: Duncan Cameron in account with James Webb, including an entry for an unnamed enslaved person.
• 12 September 1812: Account of wheat and cotton sent, including an entry for the percentage of wheat harvested by unidentified enslaved people.
• 8 October 1812: Duncan Cameron in account with Charles Parrish, including entries for meals and boarding for an unidentified enslaved person who travelled with Cameron.

Accounts, 1813

Records of enslavement:

• 28 September 1813: Thomas D. Bennehan in account with Charles Parrish, including an entry for meals for an unidentified enslaved person.
• 26 November 1813: Thomas D. Bennehan in account with James Webb, including entries for medical services for Dilsey, Solomon, and possibly other enslaved people.
• 28 December 1813: receipt for services rendered by J. Lockhart in the trafficking through hiring out of unidentified people enslaved by Samuel Strudwick. Duncan Cameron served as guardian of Strudwick.
• 1813 or 1816: estate of William Strudwick in account with Henry Wright, including an entry for boarding and medical care for two unidentified enslaved people.

Accounts, 1814

Records of enslavement:

• 8 February 1814: Account of John Nelson, with an entry for expenses related to Dion, who may have been enslaved.
• 25 May 1814: Duncan Cameron in account with James Webb, including entries for a medical visit to George and shoes for Luke, both of whom may have been enslave.
• 19 September 1814: Expenses of Solomon from Sulphur Springs. Solomon may have been an enslaved or free Black person.

Accounts, 1815

Records of enslavement:

• January 1815: Invoice to Graham & W. Miller, from James Webb, including entries for an exam, presumably medical, of Elliot, who may have been enslaved.

Balance sheet, 24 May 1815

Accounts, 1816

Records of enslavement:

• 24 January 1816: Duncan Cameron in account with James Webb, including a note mentioning an enslaved person who had self-emancipated from Dick Tap by running away. Webb wrote that Luke, an enslaved person who was the carrier of this note, could provide more information. Webb also mentioned a memorandum to Mr. Nash that enumerated the clothes to which Tony, likely an enslaved person, was entitled.
• 16 February 1816: Statement of stocks, debts, and property belonging to Duncan Cameron, including an entry for the value of 90 unidentified enslaved people.
• 5 June 1816: Duncan Cameron, guardian of William Anderson, in account with Mary R. Anderson, including entries for expenses related to clothing for unidentified enslaved people.
• December 1816: Duncan Cameron in account with James Webb, including an entry for medicine for Dick, an enslaved person.
• 1816: Statement of Doctor Webb's account, including entries for shoes for Luke and medical services for Dick, Abram, Joshua, Charity, Jerry, Rilla, Silla, John, George, Harriet, Amos, Mary, and Ginger.
• 1816: Bennehan & Cameron in account with James Webb, including entries for shoes for Luke and John and medical services for John, Dick, Abram, Joshua, Charity, Jerry, Rilla, Silla, Harriet, Amos, and George.

Accounts, 1817

Records of enslavement:

• January 1817: Duncan Cameron in account with John Fort, including entries for carpentry and repair work completed by Sammy and Sol, who may have been enslaved.
• 1 August 1817: Fishdam ford accounts, including entries for medical services for identified and unidentified enslaved people claimed as property by Duncan Cameron and other enslavers. The identified enslaved people included Phill, Milly, Charity, Davy, and Jack at Thomas D. Bennehan's.
• 8 August 1817: Duncan Cameron in account with John Fort, including entries for carpentry work completed by Sammy and Sol, who likely were enslaved people.
• 12 August 1817: Duncan Cameron in account with S. Mitchell, including entries for [medical?] visits to unnamed enslaved women.
• November 1817: Duncan Cameron in account with James Webb, including entries for medical visits to Joshua and Charity.
• 25 December 1817: Thomas D. Bennehan and Duncan Cameron in account with James Webb, including entries for medical services to Joshua, Charity, Jerry, and other unidentified enslaved people.
• 1817: General charges to cash, including entries for Old Frank, and for medical services for Phil.

Accounts, 1818

Folder 1960: Records of enslavement:

• 7 January 1818: Duncan Cameron in account with John Fort, including entries for carpentry and repair work by "Black Sam," who may have been a free person, and by Sol and Sammy, who may have been enslaved.
• 30 May 1818: an unidentified account record, including an entry that mentions Frank, who may have been enslaved.

Folder 1961: Records of enslavement:

• 29 July 1818: Bennehan and Cameron in account with John Green, including entries that mention Frank, who may have been enslaved.
• 5 October 1818: Duncan Cameron in account with John Fort, including entries for work performed by Solomon and Harry, who may have been enslaved.

Folder 1963: Records of enslavement:

• 1818: Bill of carpentry and repair work done by John Fort on the barn, including entries for work performed by Solomon, who may have been enslaved.

Accounts, 1819

Records of enslavement:

• 5 February 1819: Duncan Cameron in account with John Fort, including entries for carpentry and repair work done by Solomon, Henry, Sam, and [Soney?], who may have been enslaved.
• 29 July 1819: invoice to Richard Bennehan, including charges for boarding at Lenox Castle of an unidentified enslaved person who travelled with Bennehan.
• 13 August 1819: Mary R. Anderson in account with James Webb, including entries for medicine or medical visits to Jerry, Jim, and July, who were enslave.
• 25 October 1819: bill of sale for [Della?], Melissa, and Caroline, the daughter of Patt [Maloney?], who were trafficked by John R. [Archer?], Amelia County, Va., to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C.

Accounts, 1820

Records of enslavement:

• 1 January 1820: Bennehan & Cameron in account with John Wilkins, including an entry for the trafficking of Jim, an enslaved child, through hiring out during 1817-1819.
• 17 July 1820: invoice from Young Dortch, including work performed by John, who may have been his son or an enslaved person.
• 24 October 1820: invoice for Bennehan, including work performed by John, who may have been enslaved.
• Bennehan & Cameron in account with Johnson and Dugger, including entries for the hire of enslaved people working in tobacco production.

Accounts, 1821

Folder 1966: Records of enslavement:

• 20 April 1821: Mary R. Anderson in account with James Webb, including entries for medical services for Lucy, John, and Fred, who were enslaved.
• 22 April 1821: invoice for Duncan Cameron, including work performed by John, who may have been enslaved.
• 8 June 1821: Duncan Cameron in account with Young Dortch, including entries for work performed by John, who may have been his son or an enslaved person.

Folder 1967: Records of enslavement:

• November 1821: amounts brought forward, including reference to "runaway" debt at Fish Dam, which may be a reference to enslaved people who self-emancipated.

Accounts, 1822

Records of enslavement:

• 7 January 1822: Bennehan & Cameron in account with John Fort, including entries for work performed by Solomon, Hannah, and Jim, who may have been enslaved.
• 31 December 1822: Duncan Cameron in account with Joseph and William Peace, including an entry mentioning Frank, who may have been enslaved.

Accounts, 1823

Folder 1969: Records of enslavement:

• 13 January 1823: William Leathers in account with Duncan Cameron, including entries for the trafficking through hiring out of Isbelle and family, who were enslaved; and for the trafficking through sale of Isbelle, Ned, Peter, Grace, and Commodore (bill of sale 9 May 1822).

Folder 1970: Records of enslavement:

• 5 December 1823: receipt for work performed by Dick, an enslaved person who had been trafficked through hiring out by N. Ragsdale of Raleigh to Duncan Cameron.
• Circa December 1823: Bennehan & Cameron in account with Duncan Cameron, including entries for cash paid to enslaved people for corn (multiple entries); to Solomon, who may have been enslaved, for sundry work; to laborers at harvest time; to expenses for Jerry, who may have been an enslaved person who had been trafficked through hiring out by John Vanhook; to enslaved people for work performed at the low quarter.
• 1823: Bennehan & Cameron in account with Duncan Cameron, including entries for cash paid to enslaved people for corn (multiple entries) and for sundry expenses for enslaved people.
• 1823: account sheet, including entries for cash paid to enslaved people for corn; for expenses for Jerry, who may have been an enslaved person who was trafficked through hiring out by John Vanhook.

Accounts, 1824

Folder 1971: Records of enslavement:

• 28 February 1824: Duncan Cameron in account with James Webb, including entries for medical services for unidentified enslaved people.
• 4 March 1824: list of flour sent down, including mention of Jerry, George, Joe, and others who may have been enslaved.
• 7 June 1824: an expense bill, including an entry for Jerry and a wagon. Jerry may have been an enslaved person who delivered goods.

Folder 1972: Records of enslavement:

• 1824: shoemaking by Thomas C. Reavis for Thomas D. Bennehan, including entries for Matthew, Jerry, Ephraim, Albert, Young Phillip, Patsy, Peter, Virgil, and others who were enslaved.
• 1824: record of money paid for building of a house near Hillsborough, including entries for the trafficking through hiring out of Sam, an enslaved boy, by Eliza Estes, and of Peter, who was enslaved, by Mrs. Cameron, and to Peter for work on the chimney.

Accounts, 1825

Folder 1973: Records of enslavement:

• Circa 1825: list of 38 enslaved people who are identified by name and age.
• 19 February 1825: Thomas D. Bennehan in account with Walter Chissenhall, including entries to deduct the cost of the labor of Nat and other unidentified enslaved people.
• 16 March 1825: account sheet, including an entry for Billy, an enslaved child and the son of Charlotte, who was claimed as property by Thomas H. Taylor and trafficked through sale to Duncan Cameron.
• March 1825: Duncan Cameron in account with James Webb, including entries for medical services for Ned and Tony, who were enslaved.

Folder 1974: Records of enslavement:

• 22 May 1825: Richard Bennehan in account with David Mitchell, including an entry for supper and breakfast for an unidentified enslaved person who travelled with Bennehan.
• 19 July 1825: Richard Bennehan in account with David Mitchell, including an entry for lodging for an unidentified enslaved person who travelled with Bennehan.

Folder 1975: Records of enslavement:

• 19 September 1825: Richard Bennehan in account with David Mitchell, including an entry for supper and breakfast for an unidentified enslaved person who travelled with Bennehan.
• November 1825: invoice for shoes for Lewis, [Essecks?], Betty, Fanny, Kinsey, Rosetta, Daphney, Sally, Kitt, and Nancy, who were enslaved.
• 1 December 1825: list of enslaved people and personal property purchased from estate of John A. Cameron by Duncan Cameron, including Levin, Simeon and Sarah.
• December 1825: list of enslaved people and real and personal property purchased from estate of John A. Cameron by Duncan Cameron, including Levin, [Elcy?], Nancy, Mariah and Julias, Simeon and Sarah.
• 1825: Richard Bennehan in account with William H. Slaughter, including an entry for boarding of an unidentified enslaved person who travelled with Bennehan.
• 1822-1825: Duncan Cameron in account with various people, including an entry in 1823 for M. Adams and 3 unidentified enslaved people who may have assisted him in a search for an enslaved person who may have self-emancipated by running away.

Accounts, 1826

Folder 1976: Records of enslavement:

• 27 January 1826: James Cothran in account with Duncan Cameron, including an entry for seeds furnished to unidentified enslaved people and the plantation.
• 27 February 1826: Francis Timberlake in account with Duncan Cameron, including an entry for barrels of corn cultivated by unidentified enslaved people.

Folder 1977: Records of enslavement:

• 20 June 1826: invoice for enclosure of the garden by Harry, an enslaved person who had been trafficked through hiring out by James Brown to Duncan Cameron.
• 26 June 1826: invoice to Duncan Cameron from William Cameron for overtime for George, an enslaved person who had been trafficked through hiring out by an unnamed person who claimed him as property.
• 17 July 1826: invoice to Duncan Cameron from William Cameron in Wake County for work performed by Daniel, an enslaved carpenter who had been trafficked through hiring out by Alford Alston.
• 22 July 1826: invoice to Duncan Cameron from William Cameron in Wake County for work performed by George, an enslaved stone mason who had been trafficked through hiring out by David Brassfield.
• 10 August 1826: invoice to Duncan Cameron from William Cameron in Wake County for window frames and sashes in the kitchen that were made by Daniel, an enslaved carpenter who had been trafficked through hiring out by Alford Alston.
• 3 August 1826: list of 38 people identified by name and family unit and by age in some cases, who were enslaved by Duncan Cameron and Thomas D. Bennehan.

Folder 1978: Records of enslavement:

• 17 October 1826: invoice to Duncan Cameron from William Cameron in Wake County for Daniel, an enslaved carpenter who had been trafficked through hiring out by Alfred Alston. Daniel located timber, glazed it, and then made window frames and sashes.
• 28 October 1826: invoice to Duncan Cameron from William Cameron in Wake County for Daniel, an enslaved carpenter who had been trafficked through hiring out by Alfred Alston.
• 15 December 1826: receipt from Duncan Cameron for payment for work performed by Harry, an enslaved person who had been trafficked through hiring out.
• 16 December 1826: Duncan Cameron in account with Daniel Call, Richmond, including multiple entries for work performed by Daniel, Harry (brick work), and George (field work); for the purchase of James, who was enslaved; and for shoes for unidentified enslaved people.
• 2 July 1826: Duncan Cameron in account with Thomas J. [Faddis?], including entries for medical services for enslaved people.
• 26 December 1826: account sheet for Duncan Cameron, including an entry for George, possibly to buy oysters.

Accounts, 1827

Folder 1979: Records of enslavement

• 6 February 1827: invoice to Duncan Cameron from Samuel Southerland, including entries for work performed by Jim and [?], who were enslaved people who had been trafficked through hiring out by John Wilkins.

Folder 1980: Records of enslavement:

• 30 April 1827: Mrs. William Cameron and Duncan Cameron in account with Dr. Jesse Isler, including entries for medical services for Washington, Sally, Fanny, and Sucke, who were enslaved.
• 26 May 1827: Duncan Cameron in account with Dr. J. R. Harrison, including entries for medical services for John and [Lizzy?], who were enslaved children.
• 28 November 1827: receipt for Stanford and Pompey, who were trafficked through sale on 10 September 1827 by Thomas D. Watts for John Carrington, Orange County, to Thomas D. Bennehan.

Accounts, 1828

Records of enslavement:

• 24 November 1828: receipt from Duncan Cameron for payment to James Clancy, the jailor, for expenses related to boarding Daniel, who was enslaved.
• 1828: invoice to Duncan Cameron from J. Malone for sawing planks, including for flooring for a house for enslaved people.

Accounts, 1829

Folder 1983: Records of enslavement:

• 20 December 1829: work record submitted to Duncan Cameron, including entries for John, who may have been enslaved.
• 29 December 1829: invoice to Duncan Cameron from Sarah Bonner, for services she provided to women enslaved by Cameron.
• Undated: Duncan Cameron note carried to its recipient by Frank, an enslaved person.
• Undated: Duncan Cameron note carried to its recipient by Daniel, an enslaved person.
• Undated: list of 33 enslaved people, identified by name and age and grouped by family unit.

Accounts, 1830

Records of enslavement:

• Duncan Cameron in account with William Pickett, including entries for work done by Jerry, Luke, and an unnamed child, who may have been enslaved.
• 13 August 1830: Hugh Cain, administrator to Thomas D. Bennehan, account record, including entries for Mary and Esther, who were enslaved adults, and Henry, who was an enslaved child.
• 28 September 1830: receipt for payment to James Clancy, the jailor, from Duncan Cameron, for boarding Daniel, who was an enslaved person.
• 8 November 1830: receipt for payment to John [Beckwith?] from Duncan Cameron for medical services for an unidentified enslaved woman.
• 1830: list of enslaved people from whom Duncan Cameron and Miss Cameron purchased cotton, including Josephus, Lewis, Ablion, Peter, Ephraim, Edmon, Abner, Anderson, and Thomas.

Accounts, 1831

Records of enslavement:

• September 1831: Duncan Cameron in account with James Webb, including an entry for medical services for [Therebee?], ["Old Fill"?], "Old Robin" at W. Cam.
• 11 November 1831: list of people, including Jerry and John, who may have been enslaved.
• 2 December 1831: Paul C. Cameron in account with Saul [Child?], including entries for boarding an unidentified enslaved child and adult.
• 1831: Paul C. Cameron financial record, including an entry for payment for the hiring of Stephen, who may have been trafficked by James Ward or W. Anderson.

Accounts, 1832

Records of enslavement:

• 1832: money collected for James Ward, including an entry for the hire of Stephen, an enslaved person. Stephen may have been claimed as property by Margaret Ward, for whom James Ward was guardian.

Accounts, 1833

Folder 1987: Records of enslavement:

• 30 March 1833: Thomas D. Bennehan in account with Samuel Yarborough, including entries for [Dave?] and [Will?], who were enslaved people trafficked by sale from James Walker; Amy and a child, an enslaved family sold by Reavis & Sons; Harry, an enslaved child sold by Bledsoe & Sons; Esther, an enslaved person who also was trafficked by sale from James Walker; and Harry, an enslaved child who was sold by Hugh Cain.
• 15 May 1833: receipt for payment from Duncan Cameron for the hiring of Jack, an enslaved person who was trafficked by C. Dewey.
• 1820s?: Emeline Dortch in account with Duncan Cameron, executor of estate of Mary Woods, including entries for the trafficking of 2 unidentified enslaved people by Young Dortch and McKenzie & William.
• 12 August 1833: invoice for Duncan Cameron from R. W. Backus (Mrs. D. Backus), including an entry for boarding of 2 unidentified enslaved people who travelled with Cameron.
• 16 August 1833: invoice for Duncan Cameron from Robert Dickson, including an entry for boarding of 3 unidentified enslaved people who travelled with Cameron.
• 31 August 1833: invoice for Duncan Cameron from White Sulphur Springs, Va., including an entry for boarding of 3 unidentified enslaved people who travelled with Cameron.

Folder 1988: Records of enslavement:

• 2 September 1833: invoice for Duncan Cameron from Erskine Caruthers, Salt Sulphur Springs, including an entry for boarding of 3 unidentified enslaved people who travelled with Cameron.
• 7 September 1833: receipt of payment to Erskine Caruthers, Salt Sulphur Springs, from Duncan Cameron for boarding of 3 unidentified enslaved people who travelled with Cameron.
• 10 September 1833: receipt of payment to R. W. Backus from Duncan Cameron for boarding of 3 unidentified enslaved people who travelled with Cameron.
• 14 December 1833: invoice for Paul C. Cameron from James Millar, for boarding expenses for an unidentified enslaved person who travelled with Cameron.
• 30 December 1833: receipt of payment by Little Woods from Thomas D. Bennehan for hiring out of an unidentified person enslaved by Woods.
• 1833: Paul C. Cameron in account with James Ward, including entries for the hire of Stephen, who was enslaved by Mary Ward, for whom James Ward was the guardian.

Accounts, 1834

Folder 1989: Records of enslavement:

• 19 February 1834: Duncan Cameron master account, including entries for shoes and hats for unidentified enslaved people.
• 14 June 1834: note from Paul C. Cameron to the Bank of Cape Fear at Hillsborough with instructions to pay Henry, who was enslaved by M. W. Burk.
• June 1834: Paul C. Cameron in account with James Webb, including an entry for jailing [Nat?], who was enslaved.

Folder 1990: Records of enslavement:

• 31 August 1834: Duncan Cameron in account with William Kirkland & Son, including entries for blankets for unidentified enslaved people.
• August 1834: receipt for payment for hiring of Sam, an enslaved person who had been trafficked by Eliza Estes to Paul C. Cameron.
• 2 September 1834: invoice for Thomas D. Bennehan from James Hanly for P.K. Rogers at Sweet Springs, for board for 2 unidentified enslaved people.

Accounts, 1835

Folder 1992: Records of enslavement:

• 1 June 1835: List of hogs at Fish Dam kept by David and Jack, who may have been enslaved.
• 29 July 1835: Paul C. Cameron in account with James Webb, including entries for medical services for Gabriel and Mimi, who may have been enslaved.
• 1 August 1835: Duncan Cameron in account with James Litchford, including an entry for a suit for Luke, who may have been an enslaved person.
• 28 August 1835: Paul C. Cameron in account with William Kirkland & Son, including entries for nails for Jerry, who was enslaved.

Folder 1993: Records of enslavement:

• 6 November 1835: Duncan Cameron in account, including entries for sundries payments and purchase of agricultural goods from Pompy, Nat, Peter, Abner, Jack, Cyrus, Fanny, Dave, Phillip, and other unidentified enslaved people.
• 24 November 1835: Paul C. Cameron in account with Susan Taylor for work done by Jerry, an enslaved person who had been trafficked through hiring out by Taylor. Jerry worked on the chimney, gutter, and other projects.

Accounts, 1836

Folder 1995: Records of enslavement:

• 12 May 1836: invoice and receipt for payment by Paul C. Cameron to W. A. Norwood for medical services for Mimi and Nancy who were enslaved, and to other unidentified enslaved people at the plantation in Person County.
• 25 May 1836: invoice and receipt of payment by Thomas D. Bennehan to W. A. Norwood for medical services for Nelly, an enslaved person. Medicine was sent by Virgil, who also was enslaved.
• 27 May 1836: invoice and receipt for work performed for Duncan Cameron by W. Carpenter, including an entry for the labor of Abram, who was enslaved.
• 29 August 1836: receipt for payment for the trafficking through sale of Jim, an enslaved person, from Lindal Southerland to George Laws. Paul C. Cameron facilitated the trafficking in Hillsborough.
• 13 September 1836: invoice and receipt for payment by Thomas D. Bennehan to Edmund Strudwick for providing medical services for Ephraim, who was enslaved.
• 10 December 1836: invoice and receipt for payment by Duncan Cameron to W. A. Norwood for medical services for unidentified enslaved people at Person County plantation.

Accounts, 1837

Folder 1997: Records of enslavement:

• 1 April 1837: list of deaths of 54 enslaved people beginning 1 April 1837. Enslaved people are identified by name, age at death, location, cause of death, and sometimes family relationships.
• 27 May 1837: invoice and receipt of payment from Duncan Cameron to Will Peek (Peck?) for corn and oranges grown by John, who may have been enslaved.
• 20 July 1837: invoice for Duncan Cameron from John B. Lewis for charges at Sweet Springs, including an entry for 8 meals for unidentified enslaved people who travelled with Cameron.
• 22 July 1837: invoice for charges to Duncan Cameron from Erskine Caruthers at Salt S Springs, including an entry for boarding 4 unidentified enslaved people who travelled with Cameron.
• 28 July 1837: invoice to Paul C. Cameron from E. Strudwick, with entries for medical services for Stephen, Mimi, and other unidentified enslaved people.
• 28 July 1837: invoice to Paul C. Cameron from James Webb, with entries for medical services for Lucy, Myme, Gabriel, Simeon, and other unidentified enslaved people.
• 1 August 1837: invoice to Duncan Cameron from Erskine Caruthers for charges for boarding unidentified enslaved people who travelled with Cameron.

Folder 1998: Records of enslavement:

• 2 December 1837: Duncan Cameron in account with F. J. Haywood, including entries for medical services for unidentified enslaved people and Sylla, who may have been enslaved.

Accounts, 1838

Folder 1999: Records of enslavement:

• 3 January 1838: Duncan Cameron in account with Thomas Hunter, including entries for work performed by Peter, who may have been enslaved.
• 22 January 1838: Duncan Cameron in account with James Cothran, an overseer, including entries for repair of shoes for unidentified enslaved people by Taylor Hick and medicines for unidentified enslaved people.
• 21 April 1838: Duncan Cameron in account with William Thompson, including entries for 2 coffins for unidentified enslaved people.

Folder 2000: Records of enslavement:

• 5 June 1838: receipt for delivery of corn by Jerry, who was an enslaved person, from Thomas D. Bennehan to R. Fleming of Twitty Green & Co.
• 5 June 1838: receipt for delivery of corn by Daniel, who was an enslaved person, from Duncan Cameron to R. Fleming of Twitty Green & Co.
• 6 July 1838: receipt for delivery of corn by Daniel, who was an enslaved person, from Duncan Cameron to R. Fleming of Twitty Green & Co.
• 3 August 1838: receipt for delivery of corn by Gabriel, who was an enslaved person, from Paul C. Cameron to R. Flemming of Twitty Green & Co.

Accounts, 1839

Folder 2001: Records of enslavement:

• 16 March 1839: Duncan Cameron in account with Litchford & Oliver, including an entry for cutting 2 coats for unidentified enslaved people.
• 7 May 1839: Duncan Cameron in account with Captain Malone, mentioning Jerry, an enslaved person.

Folder 2002: Records of enslavement:

• 1 October 1839: Duncan Cameron in account with Samuel P. Forsyth and Richard Hobman, including an entry for hauling by Daniel, an enslaved person.
• 12 December 1839: invoice and receipt of payment from Duncan Cameron to William W. Seymour, including entries for boarding and meals for unidentified enslaved people who travelled with Cameron.
• 12 December 1839: invoice and receipt of payment from Duncan Cameron to Angus Stewart, including entries for boarding for unidentified enslaved people who travelled with Cameron.
• 14 December 1839: invoice and receipt of payment from Duncan Cameron to M. M. Rice at the Colleton Hotel, including entries for boarding for unidentified enslaved people who travelled with Cameron.
• 15 December 1839: invoice and receipt of payment from Duncan Cameron to William [Loumans?] at Coosawhatchie, including entries for boarding for unidentified enslaved people who travelled with Cameron.
• 1839: invoice for Duncan Cameron in account with John Malone, including entries for labor of unidentified enslaved people.

Accounts, 1840

Folder 2003: Records of enslavement:

• 25 February 1840: Duncan Cameron in account with P. A. Smith, including an entry for boarding of 2 unidentified enslaved people who travelled with Cameron.
• 4 May 1840: Duncan Cameron in account with Thomas L. [?], including an entry for lotion for an unidentified enslaved person.

Folder 2004: Records of enslavement:

• 1 June 1840: note from E. G. Mangum to Thomas D. Bennehan, requesting that a blacksmith make irons for confining 2 enslaved people.
• 25 July 1840: invoice for Duncan Cameron from the Union Hotel, including entries for boarding of an unidentified enslaved person who travelled with Cameron.
• 4 August1840: invoice for Duncan Cameron from the Charlotte Hotel, including entries for boarding of 4 unidentified enslaved people who travelled with Cameron.
• 18 October 1840: Duncan Cameron in account with [Thomas?] McBane, including an entry for work done by Dave, an enslaved person.

Accounts, 1841

Folder 2005: Records of enslavement:

• 14 January 1841: Duncan Cameron in account with James Litchford, including entries for clothes made for John, Luke, and David, who were enslaved.
• 29 January 1841: invoice to and receipt of payment from Duncan Cameron from T. J. Haywood for medical services for an unidentified enslaved woman.
• 1 July 1841: list of 405 enslaved people, livestock, and plantation tools claimed as property of Duncan Cameron. Enslaved people are identified by name and approximate age and grouped by plantation. Six enslaved people were identified as having died in the past 12 months.

Folder 2006: Records of enslavement:

• 30 September 1841: Memorandum of cash paid by Paul C. Cameron for Duncan Cameron, including entries for prison charges in Oxford for Little Joe, who was enslaved.
• 29 November 1841: invoice to and receipt of payment from Paul C. Cameron from James Leathers, including an entry for the labor of Peter, who was an enslaved person, on Mill Dam on Eno at Buck Shoale.
• 12 December 1841: Duncan Cameron in account with Margaret Cochran for medical services for Sally, Cherry, Lucy, and Patsy, who were enslaved.

Accounts, 1842

Folder 2008: Records of enslavement:

• 30 August 1842: invoice to and receipt of payment from Duncan Cameron to Syracuse House for boarding of an unidentified enslaved person who travelled with Cameron.
• 6 September 1842: invoice to and receipt of payment from Duncan Cameron to John Cross in Saratoga Springs for boarding of an unidentified enslaved person who travelled with Cameron.
• 28 October 1842: invoice to and receipt of payment from Thomas D. Bennehan to Will Peck for hiring out of Ned, who was an enslaved person.
• 8 December 1842: Duncan Cameron in account with John W. Lewis, including entries for medical services for John and other unidentified enslaved people.
• 1834-1842: list of 48 children identified by name, parents, and birth year, who were born into slavery at Stagville.
• 1842: list of 37 enslaved people, identified by name and grouped by family unit, to be relocated to Person County.

Accounts, 1843

Folder 2009: Records of enslavement:

• 15 March 1843: Thomas D. Bennehan in account with James Webb, including entries for providing medical services to an unidentified enslaved person.
• 17 March 1843: Duncan Cameron in account with Reeder & Louger for work done at St. Mary's Hall in Raleigh, including entries for an unidentified boy who likely was an enslaved person.

Folder 2010: Records of enslavement:

• 1 July 1843: Paul C. Cameron in account with James Webb, including entries for medical services provided to unidentified enslaved people at Home house, Bobbitt's, and Eno.
• circa 1843: list of 55 enslaved people identified by name at Snow Hill; there are birth dates for 5 people who were children at the time.

Accounts, 1844

Folder 2011: Records of enslavement:

• 6 January 1844: Duncan Cameron in account with Thomas Hicks, including entries for medical visits to enslaved people at Bobbitt's and Eno
• 30 January 1844: Duncan Cameron in account with Margaret Cothran, including entries for midwifery and other medical visits to Sally Scot, Patsey, Phebe, Ritta, Lucy, and Molly, who were enslaved people.
• 5 March 1844: Paul C. Cameron in account with Margaret Cothran, including entries for midwifery and other medical visits to Grace, "Nutty Jane," Lucy Strephon, Fanny, and Sara, who were enslaved people.

Folder 2012: Records of enslavement:

• 1 November 1844: list of 28 enslaved people identified by name at Snow Hill; parent names are provided for 2 infants born in the previous year.
• 2 November 1844: invoice to Paul C. Cameron from George Lewis for removal of 110 enslaved people and livestock, probably to Alabama.
• November 1844: Memoranda of expenses of relocating enslaved people to the new plantation in Alabama.
• 1844: Shoe list, including enslaved people identified by name and plantation: 48 people at Home; 33 people at Eno; 35 people at Snow Hill; 29 people at Bobbitt's; 30 people at Brick House; 4 people at Mill; 33 people at Jim Ray's; 28 people at North Fork (Person); and 26 people at Mill Quarter (Person). Individual enslaved people were counted but not identified at Raleigh (24). 398 pairs of shoes were made by Ben, Lewis, Robbin, Streton, and Walter, who were enslaved people.
• 1844: list of 80 enslaved people identified by name at Snow Hill as of July 1843; 49 enslaved people are listed by name at Brick House; 56 enslaved people are listed by name at Fairntosh; 12 enslaved people are listed by name and age, as well as birthdate for some individuals at Paul C. Cameron's. Births (including parent name(s)) and deaths of enslaved people during 1841-1844 are noted.
• 1843-1844: list of 63 enslaved people identified by name at Eno; 67 individuals are listed by name at Bobbitt's. Births (including parent name(s)) and deaths of enslaved people in 1843 and 1844 are noted.
• 1844: list of 43 enslaved people identified by name at North Fork (Person County); 30 enslaved people are identified by name at Paul C. Cameron's; 30 enslaved people are identified by name at McKissicks; 10 enslaved people are identified by name at Person Mill; 27 enslaved people are identified by name at Raleigh. Births (including parent name(s)) and deaths of enslaved people during 1841-1844 are noted.
• circa 1844: list of 64 enslaved people identified by name at North Fork in Person County; 12 enslaved people are identified by name at Person Mill; 41 enslaved people are identified by name at Bobbitt's; 38 enslaved people are identified by name at Brick House; 48 enslaved people are identified by name at Fairntosh; 9 enslaved people are identified by name and as house servants at Paul C. Cameron's; 50 enslaved people are identified by name at Eno. Births (including parent name(s)) and deaths during 1842-1844 are noted.

Accounts, 1845

Folder 2013: Records of enslavement:

• 14 January 1845: Duncan Cameron in account with Solomon Taylor, a blacksmith or ironworker who may have been a free Black person.
• 31 January 1845: Duncan Cameron in account with John Beckwith, including entries for medical services for unidentified enslaved people.
• 3 February 1845: list of 109 enslaved people identified by name at Green County, Ala., plantation.
• 4 February 1845: list of 109 enslaved people identified by name at Green County, Ala., plantation; also includes a list of 12 enslaved people at Paul C. Cameron's.
• 17 February 1845: Duncan Cameron in account with Thomas Hicks, including entries for medical services for Jim at Huntsville and other enslaved people at Bobbitt's, Eno, and Mill plantation.
• February 1845: disbursements by W. Llewellyn in 1845, including payment for the arrest of Juba, an enslaved person.

Folder 2014: Records of enslavement:

• 1 July 1845: lists of enslaved people identified by name, and in some cases age, and grouped by plantation: 9 enslaved people at Person Mill; 3 enslaved people at Eno Mill; 46 enslaved people at Person [North?] Plantation; 25 enslaved people at Raleigh; 34 enslaved people at McKissack's; 30 enslaved people at Mill Plantation; 12 enslaved people at Paul C. Cameron's in Orange County; and 9 enslaved people at Paul C. Cameron's in Alabama. There are 3 enslaved people who are listed as deceased under Paul C. Cameron's in Alabama.
• 1 July 1845: lists of enslaved people identified by name and grouped by plantation: 63 enslaved people at Snow Hill; 50 enslaved people at Fairntosh; 11 enslaved people at Paul C. Cameron's house; 44 enslaved people at Brick House; 47 enslaved people at Eno.
• 18 July 1845: Paul C. Cameron in account with James H. Ruffin, including an entry for cash paid to Abram, who may have been enslaved.
• 21 July 1845: receipt for payment to Charles Llewellyn from Paul C. Cameron for apprehending Juba, an enslaved person who had self-emancipated by running away.
• 13 August 1845: receipt for payment to Charles Llewellyn from A. Rackley and W. H. Cherry for a coffin for an unidentified enslaved person.
• 30 October 1845: list of 14 enslaved children identified by name and plantation who were born in 1844 and 1845.
• 1845?: Paul C. Cameron expenses, including an entry for repair of shoes for unidentified enslaved people.
• undated: Paul C. Cameron in account with Duncan Cameron, relating to slavery expenses.
• 1845: record of shoemaking by Streton, Robbin, Ben, and Walter, who were enslaved people.
• 1845: list of enslaved people identified by name and grouped by plantation: 9 enslaved people at Jones's; 11 enslaved people at Peaksville; 20 enslaved people at Fish Dam.

Accounts, 1846

Records of enslavement:

• 26 January 1846: Paul C. Cameron in account with William King, including entries for medical services for Joe, Toney, Anaca, and other unidentified enslaved people.
• February 1846: money paid by Paul Green in connection with the plantation in Greene County, Ala., winter of 1845-1846, including entries for paying taxes on enslaved people claimed as property and expenses for clothing for enslaved people.
• 1 July 1846: an account of assets by Deveraux, including an estimation that the population of enslaved people had grown by 100 since 1840.
• 1 November 1846: Plantation property is itemized, including 516 enslaved people claimed as property by the family, with 7 additional enslaved people having died in the previous year.
• 1 November 1846: List of enslaved people identified by name at Paul C. Cameron's Mill plantation (42), North Point / McKissack's (37); and Raleigh (30). For some enslaved people there is birth and death information and family relationships. A note indicates that as of 1 November 1846 there were 108 enslaved people in Alabama, 258 enslaved people in Orange County, 123 enslaved people in Person County, and 25 enslaved people in Raleigh claimed as property by the Camerons.
• 10 November 1846: Duncan Cameron in account with Thomas Hicks, including entries for medical services at Home and Bobbitt's, probably for enslaved people.
• December 1846: receipt for payment to Whitsell & Gamer for clothing for unidentified enslaved people.
• December 1846: inventory of property at Greene County, Ala., plantation, including 110 unidentified enslaved people claimed as property. There is also a note about the deaths of Simon, [Tork?], and Lucius in 1846, and the births of Alice (of May), Anne (of Lidy), Minerva (of Eliza), Margaret (of Polly), Squire (of Sally), and Billy (of Dilcy).

Accounts, 1847

Records of enslavement:

• 1 January 1847: Paul C. Cameron in account with William Ring, including entries for medical services for Martin, [Quack?], Eaton, Toney, Fanny, Prince, Simon, Aggy, Polly, Caroline, Lewis, Polly, Annaka, Tinct, [Ergot?], Milton, and other unidentified enslaved people.
• 8 March 1847: receipt for payment by Thomas Martin for Paul C. Cameron, related to advertisement of Milton, an enslaved person who had self-emancipated by running away.
• 8 March 1847: Paul C. Cameron in account with W. F. Wade, a jailor, including entries relating to jail fees for Milton, an enslaved person who had self-emancipated by running away.
• 15 March 1847: letter from John G. Moon to Charles Llewellyn, indicating that an unidentified enslaved person was delivering goods and money.
• 16 March 1847: letter from C. H. Richmond to Thomas D. Bennehan, indicating that Tinsley, an enslaved person, was delivering goods to Bennehan.
• 9 October 1847: Duncan Cameron in account with Thomas Hicks, including entries for medical services provided at Stagville and Brick House.
• 20 November 1847: letter from Margaret Cothran in Person County to Paul C. Cameron with charges for midwifery visits to enslaved women, including Grace, "Nutty Jane," Lucy (wife of Stephen), Fanny, Sarah, Adeline, Caroline, Ellen, Sally Scot, Patsy, Phebe, Ritta, Molly, Patience, and Nelly.
• 1847: Paul C. Cameron via Charles Llewellyn in account with Asa Barnes, for expenses related to Milton, an enslaved person who had self-emancipated by running away.
• 1847: list of enslaved people for J. W. Laws, including 113 people identified by name. There are 2 additional lists that identify by name the enslaved women and the children they gave birth to in 1846 and 1847.

Accounts, 1848

Folder 2017: Records of enslavement:

• 1 January 1848: Duncan Cameron in account with Thomas Hicks, including entries for medical services for Horrace and to other unidentified enslaved people at Brick House, Bobbitt's, and Eno.
• 22 March 1848: receipt of payment from Paul C. Cameron to John R. Moore for a consultation with Dr. Ring about an unidentified enslaved woman.
• 22 March 1848: Paul C. Cameron in account with Green & Ring, including entries for medical services for Priscilla, Delphia, Nelly, Aggy, Mary, Sally, Washington, Davy, Simon, and Eaton.
• 22 March 1848: Paul C. Cameron in account with John R. Moore, including entries for medical services for unidentified enslaved people.

Folder 2018: Records of enslavement:

• 11 August 1848: invoice to Duncan Cameron from William Friend by A. L. Press for charges at Powell Hotel, including board for an unidentified enslaved person.
• 28 October 1848: invoice to and receipt of payment from Duncan Cameron to Henry I. Patterson for brick work by 2 people who may have been enslaved.
• 26 November 1848: Paul C. Cameron in account with Thomas Hicks, including entries for medical services for Peter at Stagville and other unidentified enslaved people at Eno.

Accounts, 1849

Folder 2019: Records of enslavement:

• 4 January 1849: Paul C. Cameron in account with W. C. Ashe for medical services provided to a boy, who may have been enslaved.
• 5 January 1849: Paul C. Cameron in account with M. A. Moore, including entries for medical services for Nelson and other unidentified enslaved people.
• 20 January 1849: Paul C. Cameron in account with Candy & Land's Clothing, including an entry for blankets for enslaved people.

Folder 2020: Records of enslavement:

• 29 August 1849: invoice to and receipt of payment from Duncan Cameron for charges at White Sulphur Springs, including board for 2 unidentified enslaved people.
• 11 November 1849: Paul C. Cameron in account with Thomas Hicks, including entries for medical services for Tinesia and other unidentified enslaved people at Stagville.
• 1848-1849: list of 108 enslaved people who were claimed as property of Paul C. Cameron and placed in the care of James G. Stephenson as overseer. The enslaved people are identified by name and grouped by sex and age.

Accounts, 1850

Folder 2021: Records of enslavement:

• 4 January 1850: [Duncan or Paul C.] Cameron in account with John H. Parrish, including entries for medical services for unidentified enslaved people.
• 5 January 1850: Paul C. Cameron in account with M. A. Moore in Greene County, Ala., including medical services for unidentified enslaved people and to Daniel and Ellick, who may have been enslaved.
• 2 January 1850: list of 124 enslaved people at Greene County, Ala., who are identified by name.
• 15 May 1850: receipt for payment from Duncan Cameron to F. Heness, Philadelphia, including charges for boarding of the unidentified enslaved person who travelled with Cameron.
• 22 May 1850: receipt for payment from Duncan Cameron to F. Heness, Philadelphia, including charges for boarding of the unidentified enslaved person who travelled with Cameron.

Folder 2022: Records of enslavement:

• 3 June 1855: receipt for payment from the Misses Cameron to F. Heness, Philadelphia, including charges for boarding of the unidentified enslaved person who travelled with the Cameron.
• 5 June 1850: receipt for payment from Duncan Cameron to F. Heness, Philadelphia, including charges for boarding of the unidentified enslaved person who travelled with Cameron.
• 7 June 1850: payment by Duncan Cameron to the City Hotel in Norfolk, including charges for boarding of 2 unidentified enslaved people who travelled with Cameron.
• 8 July 1850: Paul C. Cameron in account with William Cothran, whose wife Margaret Cothran provided midwifery services to Grace, "Nutty Jane," Lucy (Strephan), Fanny, Sarah, Adeline, Caroline, Ellen, Minna, Fillis, Hannah, Keziah, Laura, and Violet, who were enslaved people.
• 14 October 1850: Paul C. Cameron in account with William Cothran, whose wife Margaret Cothran provided midwifery services to Sally Scott, Patsey, Phebe, Ritta, Lucy, Molly, Liza, Patience, Nelly, Nancy, and Candace, who were enslaved people.
• November 1850: Paul C. Cameron in account with J. B. G. Roulhac, Raleigh, N.C., including entries for blankets for unidentified enslaved people.
• 9 December 1850: contract between Paul C. Cameron and Frederick Nash for the trafficking through hiring out of labor, skills, and knowledge of Daniel and Allen, who were enslaved people and claimed as property by Nash.
• 9 December 1850: Paul C. Cameron in account with Moore & Thorp, including medical services for Jacob, Juba, and other unidentified enslaved people.
• 23 December 1850: Paul C. Cameron in account with Timothy Thorp, including entries for medical services for Toney, Silla, and Prince.
• 30 December 1850: list of enslaved people identified by name and age in Greene County, Ala.

Accounts, 1851

Accounts, 1852

Folder 2024: Records of enslavement:

• February 1852: list of 39 enslaved people identified by name; children are also identified by age.
• 19 April 1852: receipt of payment from Paul C. Cameron to Henry Nash for labor, skills, and knowledge of Daniel, an enslaved brick maker.

Accounts, 1853

Folder 2026: Records of enslavement:

• 7 February 1853: Paul C. Cameron in account with Michael W. Holt, including an entry for medical services for Maria, an enslaved person.
• 13 May 1853: Margaret B. Cameron in account with Thomas Hicks, including medical services for Mima at Stagville, Peggy at Huntsville, George at Fish Dam; Peggy, Mary, Jones, Ergot, Kinsy, Sam, Gilly, Emelie, Aimee, and other unidentified enslaved people at James quarter, Huntsville, Catharta, Fish Dam, and Peaksville, and to Stanford, who may have been enslaved.

Folder 2027: Records of enslavement:

• 20 June 1853: Paul C. Cameron in account with Robert Moore, including entries for work on railroads by unidentified enslaved people, a gallon of brandy for unidentified enslaved people, and other expenses related to unidentified enslaved people.
• 19 July 1853: receipt for items delivered to Ann S. Hillyard from Paul C. Cameron by Ben, an enslaved person.
• 10 August 1853: Paul C. Cameron in account with Thomas H. Turner, including entries for medical services for Stephen, John, Walter, Billy, Shantius, Sol, Dinah, David, Mathew, Daniel, Nat, Peggy, [Warney?], Ike, Anderson, and other unidentified enslaved people.
• 22 August 1853: Paul C. Cameron in account with W. E. Strudwick, including entries for medical services for Simon, Betty, Edward, and other unidentified enslaved people.
• 18 November 1853: note from John C. Shields, Alpha Mills, to Paul C. Cameron, concerning a delivery of goods to Cameron by an unidentified enslaved person claimed as property by Cameron.
• 5 December 1853: Paul C. Cameron in account with William Cothran for midwifery services provided by his wife Margaret Cothran to Grace, "Nutty Jane," Lucy (Strephen), Fanny, Sarah, Adeline, Caroline, Ellen, Sally, Mima, Hannah, Fillis, Winny, Keziah, and Violet, all of whom were enslaved people.
• 1853?: note indicating that W. Bobbitt will put Phebe, Zilpa, Nathan, Ezekial, and their families at Peaks; Louisa, Minerva, and Suckey and their families at Jones; Olley, Sam King, Jim Dickinson, Edmund, Dinah and their families at Fish Dam. Gillis and his family are mentioned but not where they would be going.

Accounts, 1854

Records of enslavement:

• 10 January 1841: list of property at Greene County, Ala., plantation, including 141 unidentified enslaved people.
• 1 April 1854: list of 141 enslaved people identified by name at Greene County, Ala. plantation.
• 17 June 1854: Mildred Cameron in account with J. T. Hicks, including entries for medical services for Eliza and other unidentified enslaved people at Brick House.
• 17 June 1854: Paul C. Cameron in account with J. T. Hicks, including entries for medical services for Sarah at Home Place; Ned, Stanley, Sarah at Stagville; and Lucy and other unidentified enslaved people at Eno.
• 6 November 1854: charges on a railroad contract, including entries for cash paid to an unidentified free Black person for 4 barrels of tar; to sundries for hands who likely were enslaved; and to [?] for enslaved people who were sick.
• 26 December 1854: Paul C. Cameron in account with Timothy Thorp, including entries for medical services for Gustus, Anderson, Tom, and the children of Aggy, Dilcy, Anarchy, and Molly, all of whom were enslaved people.

Accounts, 1855

Folder 2029: Records of enslavement:

• 1 January 1855: list of 143 enslaved people identified by name at Greene County, Ala., plantation.
• 9 April 1855: Paul C. Cameron in account with P. B. Ruffin, including entries that mention Durham, Squire, and Davis, who were enslaved people.
• 11 May 1855: invoice to and payment from Margaret B. Cameron Mordecai to F. Heness in Philadelphia, for charges related to boarding for an unidentified enslaved person who travelled with Mordecai.
• 18 May 1855: invoice to and payment from Margaret B. Cameron Mordecai to F. Heness in Philadelphia, for charges related to boarding for an unidentified enslaved person who travelled with Mordecai.
• 25 May 1855: invoice to and payment from Margaret B. Cameron Mordecai to F. Heness in Philadelphia, for charges related to boarding for an unidentified enslaved person who travelled with Mordecai.

Folder 2030: Records of enslavement:

• 18 December 1855: list of 182 enslaved people identified by name at Stagville and 38 enslaved people identified by name at Little River.
• 18 December 1855: list of 67 enslaved people identified by name at Fairntosh and 55 enslaved people identified by name at Eno. A note indicates that Paul C. Cameron claimed 566 enslaved people as property in December 1855.

Accounts, 1856

Records of enslavement:

• 1 January 1856: invoice to and payment from Paul C. Cameron to James K. Levect for medical services for unidentified enslaved people.
• 3 January 1856: inventory of clothing for enslaved people claimed as property by Paul C. Cameron in Greene County, Ala.
• 3 January 1856: list of 146 enslaved people identified by name at Greene County, Ala. plantation.
• 1 April 1856: Sam Piper to Paul C. Cameron, including entries for charges for shoes for unidentified enslaved people.
• 27 September 1856: Paul C. Cameron in account with Thomas Hicks, including entries for medical services for Sarah, and at Stagville and Person County plantations.
• 28 October 1856: list of 150 enslaved people identified by name at Greene County, Ala. There is also a list of 31 people to be removed.
• 27 November 1856: Paul C. Cameron in account with Thomas Hicks, including entries for medical services for Sarah and Simeon, and at Stagville and Person County plantations.
• 1856: Sam Piper to Paul C. Cameron, including entries for charges for shoes for unidentified enslaved people.
• 1855-1856: supplies ordered by Paul C. Cameron for people enslaved by himself, Mildred C. Cameron, and Thomas A. Cameron, at Stagville, Little River, Fairntosh, Eno, Mill quarter, Jim Rays, Belvin's, Brick House, and Snow Hill.

Accounts, 1857

Folder 2032: Records of enslavement:

• 5 March 1857: list of 229 enslaved people identified by name at Stagville; list of 120 enslaved people identified by name at Fairntosh.
• 31 March 1857: Paul C. Cameron in account with John R. Webster, including entries that mention charges for labor of unidentified enslaved people; a blacksmith bill from T. R. Tunstall, who may have been a free Black person; and charges for removal of enslaved people to [?].
• 7 June 1857: invoice to and receipt of payment from Mildred Cameron by Paul C. Cameron to William Cameron for medical services for enslaved people.

Folder 2033: Records of enslavement:

• 20 July 1857: Thomas A. Cameron in account with [?], including entries for medical services provided at Snow Hill, probably for enslaved people.
• 11 November 1856: invoice to George Mordecai from W. W. Holden for painting work at St. Mary's Hall done by Willis, an enslaved person who had been trafficked through hiring out of his labor, skills, and knowledge.
• 17 November 1857: Thomas A. Cameron in account with Thomas Hicks, including entries for medical services provided at Snow Hill, probably to enslaved people.

Accounts, 1858

Folder 2034: Records of enslavement:

• 6 January 1858: Mildred C. Cameron in account with William Cameron, including entries for medical services for Julius, Nash, Henry, Anderson, and other unidentified enslaved people at Brick House.
• 6 January 1858: invoice to and receipt of payment from Thomas A. Cameron by Paul C. Cameron to William Cameron for medical services provided by Dr. Blackwell to Bill Green and Solomon at Person County plantation.
• February 1858: list of plantation supplies, including clothes and shoes for unidentified enslaved people.

Folder 2035: Records of enslavement:

• 7 December 1858: Thomas A. Cameron in account with A. Kevan & Bro., including entries for blankets, hats, and tools for unidentified enslaved people.
• 7 December 1858: Mildred C. Cameron in account with A. Kevan & Bro., including entries for blankets, hats, and tools for unidentified enslaved people.
• 1858: Paul C. Cameron in account with [Thomas Hicks?], including entries for medical services provided at Stagville and Eno, probably to enslaved people.

Accounts, 1859

Folder 2036: Records of enslavement:

• 16 January 1859: Paul C. Cameron in account with James H. Freeman, including entries for medical services for unidentified enslaved people at the "old" place and the "new" place.
• 20 January 1859: list of 64 enslaved people identified by name in Tunica County, Miss., who were given blankets and hats; most people do not have surnames but there are a few: Cooper, Hico, Johnston, Loco, Simon, and Sowell.
• 22 January 1859: list of 83 enslaved people identified by name in Tunica County, Miss.; most people do not have surnames but a few do: Cooper, Hico, Johnston, Loco, Simon, and Sowell.
• February 1859: Paul C. Cameron in account with Richard Blacknall, including entries for medical services for Anderson, Violet, Baldy, Winey, Bob, Allen, Phebe's child, Candice and her child, Jane, Chany, Rhoda, Bill, Raney, Nelly's child, Hannah, Laura, and other unidentified enslaved people at Mill quarter and Jim Ray's.
• 7 March 1859: Paul C. Cameron in account with [?], including entries for medical services at Stagville for unidentified enslaved people.
• 19 March 1859: Thomas A. Cameron in account with William Cameron, including entries for medical services for Violet, Phebe, and other unidentified enslaved people at Snow Hill.
• 19 March 1859: Mildred C. Cameron in account with William Cameron, including entries for medical services for Sam, Bob, and other unidentified enslaved people at Belvin's, and for Essia, Rosetta, Julius, Maria, Henderson, and other unidentified enslaved people at Brick House.

Folder 2037: Records of enslavement:

• July 1859: invoice to Thomas Cameron from Richard Blacknall for medical services for Horace and William, who were enslaved children at Snow Hill.
• July 1859: Paul C. Cameron in account with Richard Blacknall, including entries for medical visits to Streton, Violet, Baldy, Winey and child, Bob, Allen, Phebe's child, Candice and child, Jane, Chaney, Chas, Rhoda, Bill Greene, Rany, Nelly's child, Hannah, Nancy's child, Laura's child, and other unidentified enslaved people at Mill quarter, Eno, and other locations.
• July 1859: invoice to Thomas Cameron from Richard Blacknall for medical services for Horace and William and for unidentified enslaved children at Snow Hill and Eno.
• 22 November 1859: Paul C. Cameron in account with E. M. Apperson Co. in Memphis, Tenn., including entries for jail fees for 3 enslaved people.
• 29 December 1859: Paul C. Cameron in account with G. W. Leatherman, including entries for medical services for Phil, Dorsay, Jim, Thomas, Isaac, Tony, Martha Ann, Morgan, Eveline, Kesia, Cherry, Betsy, and other unidentified enslaved people at Tunica County, Miss.

Paul C. Cameron, list of goods and prices, New Orleans, La., 14 January 1859

Accounts, 1860

Folder 2038: Records of enslavement:

• 2 January 1860: invoice to and receipt of payment from Thomas A. Cameron by Paul C. Cameron to William Cameron for medical services for enslaved people at Snow Hill.
• 3 January 1860: invoice to and receipt of payment from Mildred C. Cameron by Paul C. Cameron to William Cameron for medical services for Lyd at Fairntosh and Mary at Belvin's.
• 27 February 1860: Paul C. Cameron in account with O. Mazange & Co., including an entry for "Jim Crow Cards," which were wooden combs with metal teeth that were designed to treat wool before it was spun into yarn, but were given to enslaved people to use as hair combs.
• 1859: Paul C. Cameron in account with E. M. Apperson & Co., including an entry for cash paid to Lamb for expenses on corn account of enslaved people.

Folder 2039: Records of enslavement:

• 31 October 1860: receipt for payment from William Hurst to J. W. Rowlite for meal for Hurst and an unidentified enslaved person.
• 28 December 1860: Paul C. Cameron in account with [?], including entries for medical services for unidentified enslaved people at Stagville, Eno, and Little River.
• 10 November 1860: account of expenses to move 42 unidentified enslaved people to Mississippi.
• 28 December 1860: Thomas A. Cameron in account with [?], including entries for medical services for [Emeline?] and other unidentified enslaved people at Snow Hill.
• 1860: inventory of Paul C. Cameron, including 409 unidentified enslaved people in Orange County.
• 1860: lists of 95 enslaved people at Belvin's and 75 enslaved people at Brick House who were identified by name and claimed as property by Mildred C. Cameron.

Accounts, January 1861-March 1861

Records of enslavement:

• 6 February 1861: Paul C. Cameron in account with William Cameron, including entries for medical services for Zylphia, Sydney, Sarah, Pattie, Abner, Sally, Ned, Cornelius, Henderson, Jessie, Wilson, Reddin, Charles, Noah, Morgan, Polly, and other unidentified enslaved people at Eno, Snow Hill, and Fairntosh.
• 1 March 1861: list of 125 enslaved people in Tunica County, Miss., identified by name and claimed as property by Paul C. Cameron.
• 12 March 1861: list of 120 enslaved people in Greene County, Ala., identified by name and age and claimed as property by Paul C. Cameron.

Tunica County, Miss., Plantation, 1856-1861

Chiefly legal documents pertaining to the sale of land and other property in Tunica County, Miss. by Fleming J. McCartney to Samuel Tate of Shelby County, Tenn., and from Tate to Paul C. Cameron, Orange County, N.C.

Records of enslavement:

• 23 March 1857: list of 39 enslaved people in Tunica County, Miss., identified by name and claimed as property by Paul C. Cameron.
• 1857: inventory of property proposed to be sold by Sam Tate, including cabins for enslaved people.
• 1857: will of Fleming J. McCartney, Madison County, Ala., stating that Catherine and her children Reuben, Vizz, and Luvinia, who were an enslaved family, should be sold in order to pay off his debts. He also bequeathed Hiram, who was an enslaved person, to Louisa House.

Richard Bennehan, undated

Thomas D. Bennehan, undated

Records of enslavement:

• undated: invoice to and receipt of payment from Thomas D. Bennehan to Edward Strudwick for medical services for Ben, who was an enslaved person.

Duncan Cameron, undated

Records of enslavement:

• undated: invoice to Duncan Cameron from C. Dewey for carpentry labor, skills, and knowledge of Jack, Lorenzo, and Sam, who may have been enslaved people.
• undated: note carried by Jim, who was an enslaved person, to Mr. Harns, requesting a dozen hams, which were delivered in part by Ben and Nathan, who were also enslaved people.
• undated: invoice to Duncan Cameron from the Union Hotel for boarding of an unidentified enslaved person travelling with Cameron.
• undated: Buchanan, Cunnison & Co. in account with Duncan Cameron for Banks & Dickinson, including entries for payments related to management and overseeing of unidentified enslaved people at plantation.
• undated: [Cothran?] in account with Duncan Cameron, including entries for payments made to Jim and Phillip, who may have been enslaved people.
• undated: invoice to and receipt of payment from Duncan Cameron to Echols for boarding for unidentified enslaved people who travelled with Cameron.

Lists of enslaved people, undated

Lists identify enslaved people by name and their enslaver (Duncan Cameron, Paul C. Cameron). Family units are indicated by a horizontal line drawn between names on the list. Locations include Fairntosh, Stagville, Eno, Brick House, Paul C. Cameron's, Bobbitt's, Snow Hill, Snow Hill, Jim Ray's, McKissick's, Jones', Hunt's, Fish Dam, Leathers, Little River, North Quarter, and Mill Quarter.

There are a few lists that are more of a census of the enslaved adult and children age groups and supplies of blankets, hats, etc. distributed to enslaved people; another list appears to be male heads of household and the number of workers in each family unit.

There is a list of enslaved people with their home plantations and who were to be sent South to Alabama and Mississippi. Enslaved people were trafficked from Fairntosh, Snow Hill, Eno, Brick House, Bobbitt's, Eno, Jim Ray's, and McKissack's. Other lists with the names of enslaved people are titled "Alabama," "Left in Mississippi," "Left in Alabama," and "Alabama debt."

There is a list of enslaved people titled "William B. Giles, Esq."

There are two lists of enslaved people titled "Fairntosh" that include occupation information.

Lists of enslaved people, undated

Lists identify enslaved people by name and often include age information. Family unit and location information is less frequently provided. Family units are indicated by horizontal lines drawn between names on the list. Locations include Fairntosh, Bobbitt's, Paul C. Cameron, Snow Hill, Brick House, McKissack's, Jim Ray's, mill quarter/Mill plantation, North plantation, Fish Dam, and Peaksville.

April 1861-December 1861

Records of enslavement:

• 19 December 1861: Paul C. Cameron in account with [?], including entries for medical services for Joe, who was an enslaved person, and for other unidentified enslaved people at Eno and Stagville.
• 30 December 1861: list of 123 enslaved people, including 24 children, at Tunica County, Miss., identified by name and claimed as property by Paul C. Cameron; note from J. Vick, the overseer who replaced William Lamb, that acknowledges the 123 enslaved people as being in good health, except for Barbary, Washington, and Evaline; Evaline had self-emancipated by running away but reportedly was still in the neighborhood.
• Paul C. Cameron in account with Cook & Taylor, including entries for medical services for Emeline, Barbary and child, Virgil, Reuben, Lizzie, Dorsey, Green, Gus, Jim, Timothy, Meredith, Charles, Washington, and other unidentified enslaved people at Tunica County, Miss.

1862

Records of enslavement:

• 23 October 1862: receipt indicating that cash had been paid to a Black man, who may have been free or enslaved, to go to camp.
• 1862: Paul C. Cameron in account with Samuel Piper, including entries for Abner, an enslaved person whose labor, skills, and knowledge with iron had been paid for separately.

1863

Records of enslavement:

• 29 January 1863: Paul C. Cameron in account with J. H. Cook, including entries for medical services for Robin, Han, Eveline, Tony, Jack, Franny, and Betsy, all of whom were enslaved people at Tunica County plantation.
• 17 July 1863: Paul C. Cameron in account with E. Strudwick, including entries for medical services for Duncan, Sydney, West, Frank, Mildred, Milly, Ben, Benny, Jim, Jesse, and Nelson, who were enslaved people.
• 29 July 1863: letter from H. James of Engineering Department at the Cape Fear regarding payment for labor, skills, and knowledge of unidentified enslaved people who had been conscripted to serve the Confederate Army.

1864

Records of enslavement:

• January 1864: list of income of Paul C. Cameron, including entries for the trafficking through sale of 2 unidentified enslaved people and hiring out of the labor, skills, and knowledge of unidentified enslaved house servants, a cook, and a gardener.
• 27 July 1864: Paul C. Cameron in account with E. M. Holt, including entries for medical services for unidentified enslaved people at Home house, Stagville, Eno, and Snow Hill.
• 31 December 1864: Paul C. Cameron in account with William Cameron, including entries for medical services for Ben, Taylor, Turner, Nathan, Mary's infant, Zylphy's infant, Haywood, Henry Cooper, Wilson, Johnson, Mima, Phill, Daniel, and other unidentified enslaved people.

January 1865-April 1865

Records of enslavement:

• 28 February 1865: note from Paul C. Cameron indicating that he owed Thomas A. Cameron for the trafficking through hiring out of [Westy?] to the North Carolina Railroad.
• 1 March 1865: Paul C. Cameron in account with E. M. Holt, including entries for medical services for Munroe at Mill and to unidentified enslaved people at Home House, Stagville, Eno, and Little River.
• 29 March 1865: Thomas A. Cameron by Paul C. Cameron in account with E. M. Holt, including entries for medical services for unidentified enslaved people at Snow Hill.
• 29 March 1865: Mildred C. Cameron by Paul C. Cameron in account with E. M. Holt, including entries for medical services for unidentified enslaved people at Belvin's and Brick House.

Accounts, May 1865-December 1865

Records of enslavement:

• 30 August 1865: Paul C. Cameron in account with A. C. Murdock, including entries in January 1864 for supplies for enslaved people.
• undated: list of 219 formerly enslaved people identified by name. Lines between names may indicate family groupings. Approximately 90 names are marked with an "x.".

Accounts, 1866

Records of enslavement:

• 21 December 1866: Paul C. Cameron in account with E. M. Apperson & Co., including an April 1861 entry for charges related to apprehending and jailing an enslaved person who had self-emancipated by running away

Records of Reconstruction:

• 1 June 1866: account record for payments made to Ovid, Ellen, Ellicia, and Edward, who were freed people.
• 23 September 1866: account record of payments made to Ovid and Ellen and their children Ellicia, Egbert, and Dilcy. Additional freed people mentioned under credits for shoes and clothing include Abner, Coley, and Easter.

Accounts, 1867

Records of enslavement:

• 4 January 1867: Paul C. Cameron in account with William Cameron, including 1865 entries for medical services to Henry, Henry Cooper, Emma, Wilson, Patty, Cynthia, Daniel, Israel, Abe, and Archy.
• 5 February 1867: Paul C. Cameron in account with William Cameron, including 1864 entries for medical services to Ben, Turner, Taylor, Nathan, Mary's infant, Zilph's baby, Haywood, Wilson, Johnson, Mima, Phill, Daniel, Henry, Henry Cooper, and other unidentified enslaved people at Person County plantation.

Records of Reconstruction:

• March 1867: Paul C. Cameron in account with Wilson O'Berry, including entries related to corn grown by freed people.
• 26 November 1867: list of hogs at Snow Hill with Eprhaim and Owen, who were freed people
• 15 December 1867: account of harvest by Charles Amis, who was a freed person

Accounts, 1868

Records of Reconstruction:

• 16 October 1868: account of harvest by Duncan Cain, who was a freed person.
• 20 October 1868: account of harvest at Fairntosh by Jasper Jones, who was a freed person
• 28 October 1868: account of harvest by Charles Amis, who was a freed person.
• 6 November 1868: account of harvest by Cornelius, who was a freed person.
• 1868: Statement and Settlement between Paul C. Cameron and freed people at Fairntosh

Accounts, 1869

Accounts, 1870

Accounts, 1871

Accounts, 1872

Accounts, 1873

Accounts, 1874

Accounts, 1875

Accounts, 1876

Accounts, 1877

Accounts, 1878

Accounts, 1879

Accounts, 1880

Accounts, 1881

Accounts, 1882

Accounts, 1883

Accounts, 1884

Accounts, 1885

Accounts, 1886

Accounts, 1887-1889

Accounts, 1890-1894

Accounts, 1901-1908

Accounts, 1909-1942

Paul C. Cameron

Margaret B. Cameron Mordecai and Mildred C. Cameron

Miscellaneous

Deeds and indentures, 1772-1799

Records of enslavement:

• 1 September 1789: indenture between William Wilson, Alexandria, Va., and Colin Auld, Alexandria, Va., concerning Pat, Jack, Page and her child Mary, enslaved people who in 1785 were trafficked through sale by William Neilson, formerly of Loudon County, Va., and now of Tennessee, to William Wilson.

Indenture, 24 January 1776

Formerly OP-133/4; this number is no longer in use.

Land in Orange County, N.C., sold by Tyree Harris and Mary Ann Harris to Richard Bennehan. In two pieces.

Indenture, 1779

Land in Caswell County, N.C., sold to Osborne Jefferys.

Indenture, 31 August 1786

Formerly OP-133/5; this number is no longer in use.

Land in Orange County, N.C., sold by James Freeland, sheriff, to Richard Bennehan.

Indenture, 27 February 1787

Land in Orange County, N.C., sold by Judith Stag to Richard Bennehan.

Indenture, 10 July 1788

Rosanna Baxter.

Indenture, 16 January 1795

Walter Alves.

Indenture, 28 November 1796

Indenture for land sold by the Trustees of the University of North Carolina to Richard Bennehan.

Indenture, 19 January 1798

266 acres of land in Orange County, N.C., sold by Walter Alves and Amelia Alves to Richard Bennehan.

Indenture, 19 January 1798

266 acres of land in Orange County, N.C., sold by Walter Alves and Amelia Alves to Richard Bennehan; second copy.

Indenture, March 1799

Land in Orange County, N.C., sold to William Lingo.

Grant, 26 November 1799

From the state of North Carolina to Richard Bennehan for 247 acres in Orange County, N.C.

Indenture, 28 November 1799

Land in Orange County, N.C., sold by the Trustees of the University of North Carolina to Richard Bennehan.

Deeds and indentures, 1800-1809

Records of enslavement:

• 12 February 1807: indenture for Hampton, an enslaved adult, and Cynthia, Charlotte, Betcy, Maria, and infant William, enslaved children who were trafficked through sale of debts from Joseph Ross, Raleigh, N.C., to Duncan Cameron, Hillsborough, N.C. Ross previously purchased from John Davis, sheriff of Wake County, N.C.

Indenture, 16 April 1801x

Land in Orange County, N.C., sold by Anthony Richey to Richard Bennehan.

Indenture, 22 December 1801

Land in Orange County, N.C., sold by William Waite, Person County, N.C., to John Tilley Lunt, Orange County, N.C.

Indenture, 23 December 1801

Land in Orange County, N.C., sold by John Tilley Lunt to Richard Bennehan.

Deeds and indentures, 1810-1816x

Records of enslavement:

• 16 April 1810: Deed of trust in which Ed (about 21 years old), and Silvia (about 20 years old) and her child Major (about 3 years old), enslaved people, were sold by James Carrington to Richard Henderson and Samuel Yarborough in payment of debts.

Indenture, 19 September 1812

Land sold in Orange County, N.C., by Walter Alves to Richard Bennehan.

Indenture, 6 November 1812

Land sold in Orange County, N.C., by Walter Alves to Thomas D. Bennehan.

Deeds and indentures, 1817-1819

Deeds and indentures, 1820-1823

Records of enslavement:

• 10 January 1822: deed of trust in which Isbell, Peter, Grace, Chancy, and Edny, enslaved people, were served as collateral for William Leathers until he repaid debts to Hugh Cain and Thomas D. Bennehan, Orange County, N.C.

Grant, 15 August 1822

Land in Orange County, N.C., sold by the State of North Carolina to Thomas D. Bennehan, with attached plat.

Deeds and indentures, 1824-1826

Records of enslavement:

• 11 May 1825: indenture that established that Tom, Esther, Sam, Robert, and James, people who were enslaved by Daniel Call, would be inherited by his daughter Anne Ruffin Cameron, who was married to Duncan Cameron, and her children after her.
• 10 December 1830: indenture in which Jenny and her children Mackenzie and William, and Dilcy, an enslaved child, were trafficked from Young Dortch to James Webb as a bond on a debt owed to Duncan Cameron.

Deeds and indentures, 1830-1833

Deeds and indentures, 1834-1838

Deeds and indentures, 1841-1857

Deeds and indentures, 1866-1869

Records of Reconstruction:

• 6 August 1865: template for labor contract for freed people, created by Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees and Freedmen in Raleigh.

Deeds and indentures, 1870-1879

Deeds and indentures, 1881-1888

Deeds and indentures, 1902-1908 and undated

Indenture, undated

Land sold, possibly by James Freeland to Richard Bennehan.

Surveys and land plats, 1761-1799

Map, circa 1792

Downtown Raleigh, "Union Square," with lots 140, 141, 156, and 157 marked "RB." Laminated.

Surveys and land plats, 1801-1812

Survey for Richard Bennehan, 20 March 1804

Surveys and land plats, 1813-1830

"Plot of Survey Walter Alves heirs to Duncan Cameron," 16 January 1821

Survey map, 26 October 1824

Person County, for Duncan Cameron, hand-drawn by Phillips Moore.

Surveys and land plats, 1831-1946

Map and survey, 1852

White Hall, Arnaudlia, and Lake Place Plantations. Concordia Parish, La. Printed.

Map, March 1881

Tract of land lying North of Chapel Hill, N.C. Survey by Professor R.H. Graves. Hand drawn. Enclosure dated 24 February 1883.

Map of land east of Chapel Hill, N.C., July 1882

R.H. Graves, Surveyor. Enclosure dated 24 February 1883.

"Map of Honorable Paul C. Cameron's Land on Flat, Eno, and Neuse Rivers in Durham, Wake, and Granville Counties," March 1890

Survey of J.G. McDuffie, white on black.

Map, March 1917

Snowhill Plantation. Survey by Sno. K. Strange.

Map, December 1920

"Proposed Subdivision of Snowhill Plantation - Durham County, N.C." Drawn by Blair and Drane, Inc., Charlotte, N.C.

Map, October 1921

"Subdivisions of Snowhill Plantation, Durham County, N.C. - The Property of the Heirs of Annie R. Collins." Plat and areas by Blair and Drane, Inc.

Map, July 1937

"Showing in Part of Timbered Land, Fairntosh Plantation."

Map, December 1946

Division line, Fairntosh Farm.

Surveys and land plats, undated

Tract of land between Little River and Flat River, undated

Tract of land, undated

Map, undated

Paul C. Cameron's land on Flat, Eno, and Neuse Rivers in Durham, Wake, and Granville Counties. See also XOP-133/30a-b.

Map, undated

Map of Honorable Paul C. Cameron's land on Flat, Eno, and Neuse Rivers in Durham, Wake, and Granville Counties. Blueprint. See also XOP-133/29.

Map, undated

Map of Honorable Paul C. Cameron's land on Flat, Eno, and Neuse Rivers in Durham, Wake, and Granville Counties. Second Copy. See also XOP-133/29.

Map, undated

Tracts on Flat and Little Rivers, hand-drawn, laminated.

Plan of sundry tracts of land on Little River, undated

Hand-drawn, laminated.

Land survey, undated

A large area in Durham County, N.C. Tracts marked I-VIII. No legend.

Survey, undated

Tract of land belonging to Richard Bennehan on Flat River.

Tax lists (Richard Bennehan), 1770-1789

Enslaved people are identified by name and categorized by age range on some tax lists.

Also included is one tax list, 1786, for the estate of William Johnston in which 12 enslaved people are identified by name and categorized by age range.

Tax list (Richard Bennehan), 25 July 1780

Formerly OP-133/88; this number is no longer in use.

Enslaved people are not identified by name on this tax list.

Tax list (Richard Bennehan), August 1782

Formerly OP-133/89; this number is no longer in use.

Enslaved people are not identified by name on this tax list.

Tax lists (Richard Bennehan), 1790-1802

Enslaved people are identified by name and age on tax lists.

Tax lists (Richard Bennehan, Duncan Cameron), 1803-1809

Orange County, N.C.

Enslaved people are identified by name and age on tax lists.

Tax lists (Richard Bennehan, Thomas D. Bennehan, Duncan Cameron), 1810-1819

Orange County, N.C.; Wake County, N.C.

Enslaved people are identified by name and age on tax lists.

Tax lists (Richard Bennehan, Duncan Cameron), 1820-1825

Orange County, N.C.

In 1821, Duncan Cameron claimed 50 enslaved people as taxable property in Orange County; by 1825, he claimed 95 people.

Enslaved people are identified by name and age on tax lists. Enslaved people appear to be listed in groups, possibly by unidentified locations, on tax lists for Duncan Cameron in 1821 and 1825.

Tax lists (Thomas D. Bennehan, Duncan Cameron), 1826-1829

Orange County, N.C.

Enslaved people are identified by name and age on some tax lists.

People enslaved by Duncan Cameron are sometimes in lists ordered by location (Eno, Home Place, Brick House, Snow Hill).

An 1827 list of people enslaved at Fish Dam identifies matrilineal relationships.

Tax lists (Thomas D. Bennehan, Duncan Cameron, Paul C. Cameron), 1830-1835

Orange County, N.C.; Person County, N.C.

Enslaved people are identified by name and age on some tax lists.

Enslaved people are grouped by location (Stagville, Little River, Fish Dam) and family in an 1830 tax list for Thomas D. Bennehan. At Stagville, some people are listed under "old shop family" and "kitchen."

Tax lists (Thomas D. Bennehan, Duncan Cameron, Paul C. Cameron), 1836-1839

Orange County, N.C.; Person County, N.C.

Enslaved people are identified by name and age on some tax lists.

Tax lists (Thomas D. Bennehan, Duncan Cameron, Paul C. Cameron), 1840-1845

Orange County, N.C.; Person County, N.C.

Enslaved people are identified by name on some tax lists. An 1842 tax list noted locations: Fairntosh, Eno, Brick House, Bobbitt's, Snow Hill, Jim Ray's, Walnut Hill (Person County), Hickory Hill, and "House Servants."

Tax lists (Duncan Cameron, Paul C. Cameron), 1846-1849

Orange County, N.C.; Person County, N.C.; Greene County, Ala.

Enslaved people are not identified by name on tax lists in this folder.

Tax lists (Duncan Cameron, Paul C. Cameron), 1850-1859

Orange County, N.C.; Person County, N.C.; Tunica County, Miss.

Enslaved people are not identified by name on tax lists in this folder.

Tax lists (Duncan Cameron, Paul C. Cameron, Thomas A. Cameron), 1860-1865

Orange County, N.C.; Tunica County, Miss.

Enslaved people are not identified by name on tax lists in this folder.

Tax lists, 1866-1869

Tax lists, 1870-1879

Tax lists, 1880-1899

Tax lists, 1900-1941

Tax lists (Thomas D. Bennehan, Duncan Cameron, Mildred C. Cameron, Thomas A. Cameron), Undated

A tax list circa 1834-1840 for Duncan Cameron includes enslaved people who are identified by name.

Promissory notes and bonds, 1772-1799

Promissory notes and bonds, 1800-1803

Promissory notes and bonds, 1804

Promissory notes and bonds, 1805

Promissory notes and bonds, 1806

Promissory notes and bonds, 1807

Promissory notes and bonds, 1808

Promissory notes and bonds, 1809-1810

Promissory notes and bonds, 1811-1819

Promissory notes and bonds, 1820

Promissory notes and bonds, 1821

Promissory notes and bonds, 1822

Promissory notes and bonds, 1823

Promissory notes and bonds, 1824

Promissory notes and bonds, 1825

Promissory notes and bonds, 1826

Promissory notes and bonds, 1827

Promissory notes and bonds, 1828

Promissory notes and bonds, 1829-1832

Promissory notes and bonds, 1833

Promissory notes and bonds, 1834

Promissory notes and bonds, 1835-1839

Promissory notes and bonds, 1840-1849

Promissory notes and bonds, 1850-1859

Promissory notes and bonds, 1860-1869

Promissory notes and bonds, 1870-1879

Promissory notes and bonds, 1880-1889

Estate papers: Thomas Amis, 1804, 1808, undated

Estate papers: Daniel Anderson, 1813, 1816

Estate papers: Thomas D. Bennehan, 1847-1849

Folder 2153: Records of enslavement:

• March 1849: Estimate and Exhibit of the Estate of Thomas D. Bennehan: includes 336 enslaved people, and reports that Virgil and Pheribe, an enslaved couple, William and Peggy, who also were enslaved, were emancipated and sent to Liberia in April 1848, per the directives in the will of Thomas D. Bennehan.
• 3 December 1847: valuation of 336 people enslaved by the estate of Thomas D. Bennehan.
• 2 April 1849: valuation of 336 people enslaved by the estate of Thomas D. Bennehan.

Folder 2154: Records of enslavement:

• Undated: valuation of 336 people enslaved by the estate of Thomas D. Bennehan.
• October 1847: assessed value of people enslaved by Thomas D. Bennehan at Stagville, Little River, Jones, Hunt, Peaks, Fish Dam.
• 16 October 1847: list of enslaved people identified by name and age at Stagville in Orange County.
• 16 October 1847: list of enslaved people identified by name and age at Little River in Orange County.
• Undated: list of enslaved people identified by name and age at Jones and Hunt plantations in Wake County.
• Undated: list of enslaved people identified by name and age at Peak and Fish Dam plantations in Wake County.
• Undated: list of 101 people identified by name and age who were enslaved by Margaret Cameron.
• Undated: list of 47 people identified by name and age and affiliation with Brick House, who were enslaved by Mildred Cameron.
• Undated: list of 101 people identified by name and age who were enslaved by Paul C. Cameron. Some family relationships are identified.
• Undated: list of 103 people identified by name and age who were enslaved by Thomas Cameron.

Folder 2155: Records of enslavement:

• Undated: Statements of the Allotment of the Estate of Thomas D. Bennehan indicate value of enslaved people inherited by Paul C. Cameron, Margaret B. Cameron, and Mildred C. Cameron.

Folder 2156: Records of enslavement:

• Undated: Devised to P. C. Cameron: includes a line for Ben Umstead, his wife, and 6 sons; devised to M. B. Cameron: includes a line indicated that she inherited 5 enslaved people; devised to M. C. Cameron: includes a line indicated that she inherited 9 enslaved people.
• Undated: Personal estates: indicates that Thomas D. Bennehan had 336 enslaved people at the time of his death; 22 of them were devised to specific members of his family.
• 1847: Charges at Union Hotel for Duncan Cameron, including board for 2 unidentified enslaved people who travelled with hi.

Estate papers: William Bennehan, circa 1807-1812

Estate papers: Ann Nash Cameron, 1815-1837

Records of enslavement:

• 8 April 1826: Tom, Esther and her son James, Sam, Robert, Baker, Katy, Jerry, and James Page were enslaved people who were trafficked by deed from Daniel Call, Richmond, Va., to his daughter Anne Ruffin Cameron, Hillsborough, N.C. This indenture from Daniel Call granted trusteeship over land and enslaved people he had deeded to his daughter Anne Ruffin Cameron. Duncan Cameron served as trustee for his sister-in-law Anne Ruffin Cameron.
• 1 October 1836: Anne Ruffin Cameron's request for transfer of legal trusteeship of her property, both the people enslaved by her and land, from her brother-in-law Duncan Cameron to her son William Cameron and her son-in-law Alexander Kirkland. Anne Ruffin Cameron sought to sell land and move enslaved people for the profit of her children, who were desirous of moving to the Southwest, possibly Mississippi. She received land and enslaved people from a deed from her father Daniel Call, Richmond, Va., 8 April 1826.

Estate papers: Anne Ruffin Cameron, 1901, 1942

Estate papers: Duncan Cameron, 1816-1853

Folder 2160: Records of enslavement:

• 16 February 1816: Memoranda for Rebecca Cameron, in which Duncan Cameron outlined how he wanted his estate to be distributed if he died. He estimated that he enslaved 90 people, 40 of whom could be selected for trafficking through sale if they were unmanageable or unable to increase through reproduction. He directed that the remaining 50 enslaved people be divided in employment in the house, in raising corn and pork, and in maintenance and repair of the plantation, in addition to raising corn and pork. He also directed that the people he enslaved be withdrawn from Fish Dam plantation. He claimed one-half of Rhody and her children and Davy, who were enslaved at Fish Dam, as his property; Jack, Fife, [Creacy?] and her children, [Nillthy?] and her children, Ben/B.S., Chainey and her children, Polly and her children, were all claimed wholly as his property. Dick and little Ben were bought in partnership; Cameron claimed Dick as his property and Ben was claimed by R.B. & Son. He directed that 1 or 2 enslaved people be given to each of their daughters upon their marriages, and the remainder to be divided among their sons Paul and Thomas.

Folder 2161: Records of enslavement:

• 13 May 1853: statement by Margaret B. Cameron, that she and her sister Mildred had received the following enslaved people from the estate of Duncan Cameron: Luke, Grace, and their children Milly, Emeline, Molly, and Susan; [Syllan?] and her grandchildren; and Frank, who at that time had self-emancipated by running away, possibly to a northern city; Agnes and Bryant; John and Lizza and their children Virgil, Caroline, Frank (son of Anna deceased?), Henry (son of Sucky deceased).

Folder 2162: Records of enslavement:

• January 1848-Februray 1849: account record of Duncan Cameron with Thomas Hicks, who made medical visits to Abner, Luke, Edmond, Emelie, Sarah, Ben, John, and Caroline. Visits were to Brick House, Eno, Bobbitt's, Snow Hill.
• May-November 1849: account record of Duncan Cameron with Thomas Hicks, who made medical visits to Sarah, Nancy, Edmond, and Ned. Visits were to Stagville, Home place, Brick House.

Folder 2163: Records of enslavement:

• January-November 1850: account record of Duncan Cameron with Thomas Hicks, who made medical visits to Nanny, Sally, Ned, Sarah, and Henry. Visits were made to Bobbitt's, Stagville, Snowhill, Eno, Peaks.
• January-October 1851: account record of Duncan Cameron with Thomas Hicks, who made medical visits to Rachel, Bill, Ned. Visits were made to Snowhill.
• January-October 1852: account record of Duncan Cameron with Thomas Hicks, who made medical visits to Cyrus, Ned, and Henderson. Visits were to Belvin's and Eno.

Folder 2164: Records of enslavement:

• 23 February 1853: account record of Duncan Cameron with Thomas Roe for work performed on green house by Harris, 2 unnamed boys, Soloman, and Nelson and son.
• 26 September 1853: tax receipt indicating the poll tax paid for 45 enslaved people.
• 23 April 1853: tax receipt indicating the poll tax paid i Orange County, N.C., for 137 enslaved people.
• 26 July 1851-23 December 1852: account record of Duncan Cameron with Thomas Hicks, who made medical visits to an unnamed boy and Evaline. Visits were made to Snow Hill, Homeplace, and Belvin's.
• 1842: account record of Duncan Cameron with William Cothran for midwifery services provided by his wife to Patsy, Ritta, Sally Scott, Lucy, Molly, Liza, Patience, Nelly, Phebe, Nancy, and Candace.

Folder 2165: Records of enslavement:

• 18 August 1853: contract in which George W. Mordecai and Margaret B. Cameron Mordecai agree to repay debts related to an inheritance, including enslaved people, she received from Thomas D. Bennehan.
• 1842: Advancements made to Paul C. Cameron whilst in charge of his father's property in Orange and Person counties: includes expenditures related to Polly, Frank, Elisha, Jasper, Phebe, Wilson(?.
• 1851: Railroad Contract conducted for the joint interest of Duncan Cameron, Margaret B. Cameron, and Paul C. Cameron, including expenses related to medical care for enslaved people and the labor of a free Black person.
• 15 August 1853: inventory of testator Duncan Cameron, including 414 enslaved people on plantations in Orange and Person counties; 27 or 28 enslaved people living at Cameron's lot in Raleigh; 130 enslaved people in Green County, Miss.; and Ben Umstead and his family of 10 people, who lived in Orange County; and Frank, who had self-emancipated by running away out of state.
• 4 April 1853: List of 101 enslaved people identified by name and age who were bequeathed to Margaret B. Cameron and to be delivered to A. Bobbitt, an overseer. A note indicates that Milley, Grace and her infant, were specifically devised to Margaret B. Cameron.
• 4 April 1853: list of 98 enslaved people identified by name and age who were bequeathed to Mildred C. Bennehan and to be delivered to Belvin, an overseer. A note indicates that Emeline, the wife of Pomp, and her children were specifically devised to Mildred C. Cameron.

Folder 2166: Records of enslavement:

• 24 March 1853: list of 414 people enslaved by the estate of Duncan Cameron, deceased. Enslaved people are identified by name, age, and to whom they were allotted.
• 5 December 1847: list of 336 people enslaved by the estate of Thomas D. Bennehan, deceased. Enslaved people are identified by name, age, and location (138 enslaved people at Stagville; 44 enslaved people at Little River; 35 enslaved people at Jones plantation; 29 enslaved people at Hunt plantation; 31 enslaved people at Peak plantation; 59 enslaved people at Fish Dam). Sometime kin relationships and family units are indicated. All of the enslaved people at Little River and Stagville were allotted to Paul C. Cameron, except Betsy at Little River who had died, and Sam and Letty at Stagville, who were specifically devised to Margaret B. Cameron.

Estate papers: Mildred C. Cameron, 1882

Estate papers: Inventory of the estate of Mildred C. Cameron by Paul C. Cameron, May 1882

Estate papers: Paul C. Cameron, 1925-1939

Estate papers: Thomas A. Cameron, 1870

Estate papers: Anne Ruffin Collins,1941-1942

Estate papers: William Johnston, 1785-1786

Records of enslavement:

• 1786: Account sheet, including charges for clothing and salt for meat for enslaved people, as well as a gift at Christmas. There is also a charge for other supplies for Peter.
• 1785: Account sheet, including charges for medical care, salt for meat, and clothing for enslaved people, as well as rum given at Christmas and during sickness. There is also a charge for coffee for Milly, for "lying in," and for other supplies for Peter and Sally.

Estate papers: George W. Mordecai, 1854-1874

Folder 2173: Records of enslavement:

• Undated: Statement of Ellen Mordecai's affairs at the time of her marriage, including Lunsford, Pompey, Harriet, Isaac, Ellen, Missouri, and 4 unnamed children, all of whom were enslave.
• January 1854, January 1855: Memorandum of Property of George W. Mordecai includes mention of Betsy and 2 children, and Moses, an enslaved person who was a house servant.
• January 1856-January 1857: Memorandum of Property of George W. Mordecai includes mention of Betsy and children Henry and Andrew, and Moses, an enslaved person who was a house servant.
• January 1858-January 1865: Memorandum of Property of George W. Mordecai includes mention of Betsy and children Henry and Andrew, Moses, an enslaved person who was a house servant, and Matthew, who had been trafficked through purchase from Southerland.
• 14 November 1856: Bill of sale for Washington, an enslaved person about 24 years old who was trafficked by sale from William Green of Orange County, N.C., to George W. Mordecai, Wake County, N.C. A note on the verso by George W. Mordecai states that Washington was purchased to replace Nathan, a person who was enslaved in trust by Margaret Bain Mordecai. Nathan was trafficked as punishment.

Estate papers: Margaret B. Cameron Mordecai, circa 1850-1886

Records of enslavement:

• Undated: Items of Property of Estate of Margaret B. Cameron, including 161 enslaved people from the estate of Thomas D. Bennehan, who labored on plantations in Wake County, N.C.; 30 enslaved people at the lot in Raleigh; 101 enslaved people inherited from the estate of Duncan Cameron; 106 enslaved people at Snow Hill, a property in trust for Thomas A. Cameron.
• Undated: Items of property of M. B. C., including 161 enslaved people from the estate of Thomas D. Bennehan, who labored on plantations in Wake County, N.C.; 30 enslaved people at the lot in Raleigh; 101 enslaved people inherited from the estate of Duncan Cameron.

Wills: Thomas Amis

Records of enslavement:

• 28 March 1764: will of Thomas Amis in Northampton County, N.C., in which he bequeathed to his son John Amis his plantation in Halifax County and the enslaved people he claimed as property, including [Gloster?], Sole, Moses, Denah, and Wile. To his son Thomas Amis he bequeathed the enslaved people he claimed as property, including [Peter?], Nan, [Mobe?], Frank, Daniel. To his daughter Mary Amis he bequeathed the enslaved people he claimed as property, including Ned, Esther, Humphrey, Phebe, and Bill.
• 7 October 1796: will of Thomas Amis in which he lent Grace and her son Henry, enslaved people he claimed as property, to Jesse Rhymes, and requested that Rhymes embrace the opportunity for their liberation when it was allowable by law. He also requested that his executors pay $100 to Grace upon her liberation and grant to Jim, Bray, and Duncan, who also were enslaved by him, clothes of second quality cloth. Grace is identified as being of mixed race.
• 12 November 1797: will of Thomas Amis in which he lent Grace and her son Henry, enslaved people he claimed as property, to Jesse Rhymes, and requested that Rhymes embrace the opportunity for their liberation when it was allowable by law. He also requested that his executors pay $100 to Grace upon her liberation and grant to Jim, Bray, and Duncan, who also were enslaved by him, clothes of second quality cloth. Grace is identified as being of mixed race.

Wills: Daniel Anderson

Records of enslavement:

• 27 January 1818: will of Daniel Anderson in Petersburg, Va. bequeathing the people he enslaved to Mary R. Anderson.

Wills: Daniel Anderson, 12 June 1807

Wills: Richard Bennehan

Wills: Thomas D. Bennehan

Records of enslavement:

• 10 February 1841: will of Thomas D. Bennehan in Orange County, N.C., instructed his nephew Paul C. Cameron to give an annuity of 50 dollars to Charlotte Rice, his formerly enslaved housekeeper at Stagville, and to free and emancipate Virgil and his wife Fereby (Ferebay or Ferreby or Phebe or "Frost"), and her children William ("Toast") and Margaret ("Peggy"), the enslaved family he claimed as property. He also directed Cameron to give 500 dollars to Virgil upon his emancipation. He bequeathed to his brother-in-law Duncan Cameron half of the enslaved people he received from D. John Umstead. Bennehan's will also states that Harriet and Emiline, the daughters of Dicey, who had been enslaved by John Umstead but emancipated by his will, should be freed and emancipated following their wishes.
• 28 April 1845: will of Thomas D. Bennehan bequeathed to Paul C. Cameron Stagville and Little River Plantation, his mill and seat on the Eno River on the condition that he free and emancipate Virgil and Ferreby (whom William usually called Frost), an enslaved couple, and Virgil's sister Margaret, usually called Peggey. Bennehan willed to his niece Margaret B. Cameron all the land he owned in Wake County and Granville County and the enslaved family, Patsey and Dandridge and their daughters Polley, Cinthia, and Antoynet, as well as Susan the daughter of Davie, who was enslaved by "Mr. Cameron." To his niece Mildred C. Cameron he willed Annie, who was also a daughter of Davie, and the enslaved family of Jemima and her children Mary, Mariah (Maria), Rebecca, Jean, Margaret, and John. To Duncan Cameron he willed the enslaved family of Ben and Mary Umstead and their daughter and six sons, as well as the daughters of Dicey, who was an emancipated woman. His will also directed that the approximately 300 enslaved people not specified in the will be divided in families between Paul C. Cameron, Margaret B. Cameron, and Mildred C. Cameron. His will also bequeathed to Charlotte Rice, his formerly enslaved housekeeper at Stagville, an annuity of $50.

Wills: Anne Ruffin Cameron

Records of enslavement:

• 7 June 1897: will of Anne Ruffin Cameron directed that $250 be given to Annie Davis, Serena Jefferies, Virgil Thompson, and Zack Kirkland, who had been her servants (page 3). .

Wills: Duncan Cameron

Records of enslavement:

• 1 March 1851: will of Duncan Cameron in which he bequeathed to his daughters Margaret B. Cameron and Mildred C. Cameron the following enslaved people: the enslaved family of Luke and Grace and their daughters Milly, Emeline, Molly, and Susan; Sylla and her grandchildren Frank, Agnes, and Bryant; John and his wife Lizzie and their children; Virgil, Caroline, and Frank (son of Anna who was deceased); and Henry (son of Sukey who was deceased). He bequeathed to his son Paul C. Cameron the enslaved family of Ben Umstead and his wife and their children. The Umstead family had been previously trafficked from Thomas D. Bennehan to Duncan Cameron. He directed that the enslaved people not already mentioned be divided into four groups, maintaining families as "far as practicable." The four groups of enslaved people were trafficked to Paul C. Cameron and his heirs, Margaret B. Cameron and her heirs, and Mildred C. Cameron and her heirs, and the final group of enslaved people were to be held in trust for Thomas Cameron by Paul C. Cameron, Margaret B. Cameron, and Anne Ruffin Cameron. Upon the death of Thomas Cameron the enslaved people were to be divided between Margaret Cameron and Mildred Cameron.
• 3 July 1850: will of Duncan Cameron in which he bequeathed to Margaret B. Cameron the enslaved family of Luke and Grace and their children Milly, Emeline, Molly, and Susan; Sylla and her grandchildren Frank, Agnes, Edward, and Bryant; John and Lizza (Lizzie) and their children; Virgil, Caroline, Daisy, Frank (son of Anna (Aggy) who was deceased); and Henry (son of Sukey who was deceased). He also willed to Paul C. Cameron all of the enslaved people who were sent to Green County Ala., and the enslaved people who were bequeathed to him by Thomas D. Bennehan, including Ben Umstead and his wife and all their children.

Wills: John A. Cameron

Wills: Paul C. Cameron

Folder 2181: Records of enslavement:

• 28 February, 1890: will of Paul C. Cameron in Orange County in which he directed that Anne (Annie) Davis, the maid and servant of his sister Mildred Cameron; Serena Jefferies, who was the maid and servant of Margaret B. Cameron Mordecai; and Virgil Thompson, their carriage driver, each receive $500 (page 25; see also copy 28).

Folder 2182: records of enslavement:

• 9 March, 1857: will of Paul C. Cameron named A. C. Jones as the executor of the land and enslaved people he claimed as property.
• 28 February, 1890 (booklet): will of Paul C. Cameron in Orange County in which he directed that Anne (Annie) Davis, the maid and servant of his sister Mildred Cameron; Serena Jefferies, who was the maid and servant of Margaret B. Cameron Mordecai; and Virgil Thompson, the carriage driver, each receive $500 (page 16).

Wills: Elizabeth Laws

Records of enslavement:

• 8 October, 1824: will of Elizabeth Laws in Orange County in which she bequeathed Writ, an enslaved person, to Thomas D. Bennehan in trust for Mary Ferguson. Laws willed the value of Dilcy and her daughter Sillar, an enslaved family she claimed as property, to Elisha Umstead's children. She bequeathed Hannah, an enslaved woman, to James Laws. She also willed the assessed value of Walter, an enslaved person, to Thomas D. Bennehan. The valuations of enslaved people were to be assessed by Samuel Yarbrough, James Leathers, and Robert Hariss. Laws bequeathed [Laurer?] to Frances Laws. .
• 16 October, 1828: will of Elizabeth Laws in Orange County in which she bequeathed Dilcy and her children Priscilla, Walter, Henderson, and Squire to Thomas D. Bennehan. She also bequeathed Writ and Hannah, whom she claimed as property, to Thomas D. Bennehan in trust for Mary Ferguson. She bequeathed [Laurer?] an enslaved person, to William Laws.

Wills: Annie M. Ruffin

Wills: Thomas Ruffin

Records of enslavement:

• 16 April, 1865: will of Thomas Ruffin of Orange County, N.C., in which he bequeathed Amy, an enslaved person, to his son Peter Brown. He also willed Patty, an enslaved person, to his son-in-law John W. Brodnax, and Peter, an enslaved person, to his son John K.; and the enslaved family of Susan and her child, to his son-in-law Edmund Ruffin.

Insurance, 1820-1829

Insurance, 1830-1839

Insurance, 1840-1859

Insurance, 1860-1869

Insurance, 1870-1875

Insurance, 1876-1879

Insurance, 1880-1885

Insurance, 1886-1889

Advertisements, 1792-1887

Advertisement for the horse, Sir Archie, undated

Advertisement by Thomas D. Bennehan for Young Sir Archie, a stud horse, 10 March 1830

Printed.

Advertisement by Thomas D. Bennehan for Character, a stud horse, 18 March 1832

Printed.

Advertisement by Thomas D. Bennehan, on behalf of John Ray, for Conqueror, a stud horse, 12 March 1833

Printed.

Agreements, 1775-1810

Records of enslavement:

• 1 January 1786: overseer contract between Richard Bennehan and Hezekiah Ferrell, who oversaw the forced labor of Carolina, Frank, Arthur, Will, George, Dinah, Phebe, and Sall, who were enslaved by Bennehan at Flatriver plantation.
• Circa October 1802: agreement between John Peace Jr. and Duncan Cameron to settle debts of John Dickinson of Granville County, N.C. through trafficking of enslaved people through sale, bonds, and land at Tabb Creek. The enslaved people are named in the 30 October 1802 valuation of people and land claimed as property by John Peace Jr.
• 30 October 1802: valuation of the enslaved people who were trafficked and land that was sold by John Peace Jr. to Richard Bennehan. The enslaved people named are Dick (45 years old), Pormey(27 years), Abram (25 years old), Moses (25 years old), Minny (18 years old) and her children Phasant (2 years old) and Davis (6 months old), Frank (50 years old) the mother of Minny, Lidia (27 years old) and her children Emanuel (9 years old), Philip (7 years old), Rose (4 years old), Ephraim (3 years old), and Roger (2 years old). James Lyne and Charles Eaton determined the value of the enslaved people and land.
• 1807: agreement between Richard Bennehan, Thomas D. Bennehan, and Duncan Cameron to share expenses and profits related to the forced labor of unidentified enslaved people and the cultivation of land at their collective stores and plantation.
• 1806: terms set by Duncan Cameron for clothing for the unidentified enslaved people he trafficked by hiring out their labor to R. Eaton.

Agreements, 1811-1859

Record of enslavement:

• 9 May 1822: Agreement for the trafficking of Isbel and her children Ned, Peter, Grace, and Commodore, who were enslaved by William Leathers and sold to Duncan Cameron in Orange County, N.C.

Agreements, 1860-1869

Records of Reconstruction (1865-1877):

• November 1865: Brick House contract between Mildred C. Cameron and free people formerly enslaved by her, including [Fid Odom?], Henderson Dunagan, Hightower Alfed, Anderson Walker, Lishe Haskins Robert Hart, Phillip Meaks, Moses Ami, Nash Williams, Wellington Haskin.
• Unsigned contract between Paul C. Cameron and free people formerly enslaved by hi.
• November 1865: Fairntosh and Eno contract between Paul C. Cameron and free people formerly enslaved by him, including Jasper Jones, William Lang?, Abram Sowel, William Mitchell, Paul Hargis, William Strephan, Daniel Goodle, Math Mitchell, Maudy Sowell, Jordan Haskins, Adam Ray, Henderson Latta, George Sowel, Worten Jordan, Lewis Goodler, Ike Sowel, Hinton Taylor, Len Haskins, Dilly Latta, Massey Sowel.
• 20 November 1866: Stagville plantation contract between Paul C. Cameron and free people formerly enslaved by him, including Ami, Banks, Campbell, Davis, Dunnagan, Goodloe, Justice, [Kindon?], Meaks, Russell, Salter, Strudwick, Walker, Watso.
• 1866: Snow Hill plantation contract between Paul C. Cameron and Ephraim Hart, Moses Ray, Daniel Sparkman, Isiah Sparkman, Dave Justice, Memphis Johnston, [Bill Browden?], Wesley Sparkman, Joh Dunnigan, Mires Hart, Owen Thompson, [? Greene]. [Note: names on this document are faint and difficult to decipher.
• 1867: Snow Hill plantation contract between Paul C. Cameron and Ephram Hart, Moses Ray, Lem Sowell, Wesley Sparkman, David Sparkman, Mires Hart, Owen Thompson, John Dunigan, Austin Dunigan.
• Orange County Home Place and Little River land above Oxford and Hillsboro Roads contract between Paul C. Cameron and Charles Amis, Jasper Jones, Duncan Cain, Daisy Ray.

Also includes contracts with white farmers who leased land from the Camerons, including Bradshaw, Durham, Green, Franklin, Lashly, Morris, Oberry (Alabama) Straughn, Turrentine, and others.

Agreements, 1870-1879

Record of Reconstruction (1865-1877)

• 20 December 1875: Contract between M. B. Mordecai and Wiley Rogers, permitting the latter to cultivate land near Raleigh currently leased to Lewis Powell.

Also includes contracts with white farmers who leased land from the Camerons, including Clemmons/Clements (Blue Hill); Copley, Hall, and Stanley (Snow Hill); Graves and Horner (Barracks); Hines; Lipscomb and Woods; Rodgers (Eno); Tilley (Buffalo Place); and others

Agreements, 1880-1889

Appointments, 1845-1848

Appraisals, 1808-1877

Records of enslavement:

• 9 November 1860: a valuation of George Smithfield and Little Jack, who were enslaved by Mildred C. Cameron. Their value was assessed by Joseph Woods. A note indicates that Paul C. Cameron intended to take them South and to traffic them by sale to another enslaver.
• 19 January 1818: a valuation of Mark and Charles, who were enslaved by the estate of Thomas G. Harris in Orange County. Their value was assessed by James Webb at the request of Thomas D. Bennehan.
• 5 October 1837: a valuation of Pomp and Esther, enslaved people. Their value was assessed by James Satterfield, James Cotham, W. Bumpass, James Satherfield.

Also includes valuations of land and personal property.

Bills of Sale, 1769-1809

Records of enslavement:

• 25 January 1769: Bill of sale for Bristoll, an enslaved child, and Fanny, an enslaved adult, who were sold by Richard Lambe of Dinwiddie County, Va., to Richard Bennehan.
• 1772: Bill of sale for Antigua and Peter, enslaved children, who were sold by Thomas Marshall of Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Va., to William Johnston and Richard Bennehan, Orange County, N.C.
• 5 July 1777: Bill of sale for Arthur and Phebe, enslaved adults, and Lucy, an enslaved child, who were sold by Ralph Macnair to Richard Bennehan.
• 30 October 1802: Bill of sale for Dick, Pormey, Abram, and Moses, enslaved adults; Winny, an enslaved adult, and her enslaved children Pleasant and Davis; and Frank, an enslaved woman, all of whom were sold by John Peace of Granville County, N.C., to Duncan Cameron, Hillsborough, Orange County, N.C.
• 29 July 1803: Bill of sale for Tom, a 25 year old enslaved person, sold by John Marshall, John Marshall, of Granville County, and Charles Kennon, Wake County, N.C., to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C.
• 5 March 1803: Bill of sale for Frank, a 22 year old enslaved person, sold by John Kennon, Wake County, N.C., to Richard Bennehan, Orange County, N.C.
• 24 November 1804: Bill of sale for Hannah and her children Jenny and David (Davy), an enslaved family who were sold at auction by Samuel Turrentine, sheriff of Orange County, N.C., to Duncan Cameron. Hannah and her children were previously enslaved by Robert Bell.
• 29 March 1805: Bill of sale for Absalom, a 10 year old enslaved child sold by John Carson, Rowan County, N.C., to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C. After Absalom was trafficked to Duncan Cameron he was known as Abner.

Bills of Sale, 1810-1819

Records of enslavement:

• 6 October 1810: Bill of sale for Squire, an enslaved person above 19 years old who was sold by Ashby Dunnigan, Orange County, N.C., to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C.
• 1 December 1810: Bill of sale for Squire, an enslaved person above 19 years old who was sold by Ashby Dunnigan, George Carrington, and John D. Carrington, Orange County, N.C., to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C.
• 6 October 1810: Bill of sale for Peter, an enslaved person under 35 years old who was sold by William Mangum, Orange County, N.C., to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C.
• 19 December 1810: Bill of sale for Dick, an enslaved person about 17 or 18 years old who was sold by John Marshall, Orange County, N.C., to Bennehan and Cameron, Orange County, N.C.
• 15 June 1811: Bill of sale for Rhodey and her 3 children, Sam, Humphrey, and Milley, an enslaved family who was sold by William Bennehan and Duncan Cameron to John Green.
• 15 June 1811: Bill of sale for Rhodey and her 3 children, Sam, Humphrey, and Milley, an enslaved family who was sold by John Green to Thomas D. Bennehan and Duncan Cameron.
• 9 March 1812: Bill of sale for [Japp?], an enslaved adult, and Jenny, an enslaved child, who were sold by Ashby Dunnigan, Orange County, N.C., to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C.
• 17 August 1814: Bill of sale for Peter, an enslaved person about 33 years old, who was sold by Thomas Reavis to Duncan Cameron.
• 9 December 1817: Bill of sale for Cherry, 23 years old, and her son Green, 2 years old (born 12 September 1815), an enslaved family who were sold by Andrew Gray, Person County, N.C., to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C.
• 22 December 1818: Bill of sale for Phillip (coxswain?), Patience, Jenny, Lum, Hannah, Lucy, Anthony, Lizzy, William, Nancy and Henry (children of [Lona or Lara?]); Archer, Rainy, and Henry (weavers), who were enslaved people sold by William B. Giles, Amelia County, Va., to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C.
• 22 December 1818: Bill of sale for Sally, [?], Patty, and Caroline, who were enslaved people sold by John Archer, Amelia County, Va., to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C.
• 24 December 1818: Bill of sale for Rosetta, Fanny, and Caroline, who were enslaved people sold by Ann Graham, Amelia County, Va., to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C.
• December 2018: Bill of sale for Jim, Milly, Sally, Davy, Harrison, Phillip, Hannah, [Jeremy?], Billy, and others, enslaved people who were sold by Theodrick. B. Banister to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C. Due to fading of the document not all names of enslaved people are discernible. See also 19 March 1830 in folder 2204.
• 26 October 1819: legal documentation of trafficking of enslaved people through from Frances Tabb, Amelia County, Va., to Theodrick B. Banister, Amelia County, Va., 22 December 1807, to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C., in December 1818. Enslaved people referred to in this document include Jim, Milly, Sally, Davy, Harrison, Phillip, Hannah, [Jeremy?], and Billy. Due to fading of the document not all names of enslaved people are discernible. See also 19 March 1830 in folder 2204.

Bills of Sale, 1820-1854

Records of enslavement:

• 7 March 1821: Bill of sale for Dave, about 17 years old, and Mime, about 14 years old, who were enslaved children sold by James Walker, Orange County, N.C. to Thomas D. Bennehan, Orange County, N.C.
• 7 July 1822: Bill of sale for Solomon, an enslaved person who was sold by John Fort, Orange County, N.C., to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C. Solomon may previously been enslaved by David Justice, Wake County, N.C.
• 14 July 1810: Bill of sale for Jim, an enslaved person who was under 25 years old and was sold by William Ray Jr., Orange County, N.C., to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C. (item misfiled in this folder).
• 27 March 1821: Bill of sale for [Farthey?], Fanney, John, and Beckey, an enslaved woman and 3 enslaved children who were sold by James Clark, Person County, N.C., to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C.
• 9 May 1822: Bill of sale for Isbel (about 30 years old) and her children, Ned (about 13 years old), Peter (about 11 years old), Grace (about 4 years old), and Commodore (about 2 years old), an enslaved family who was sold by William Leathers, Orange County, N.C., to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C.
• 13 May 1822: Bill of sale for Mary, Esther, and Harry, enslaved people who were sold from the estate of Hugh Cain, Orange County, N.C., to Thomas D. Bennehan, Orange County, N.C.
• 9 April 1822: Bill of sale for Mariah, Edward, Simon, Sally, Barbara, Minerva, Elvia, Delphia, Lydia, Peggy, Ephraim, Ray, Bob, Susan, Lucy, Amos, Caroline, Alexander, Nancy, Christiana, Jasper, Becca, Mariah, Anna, Zilpha, Owen, and William, enslaved people who were sold by John Umstead, Orange County, N.C., to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C.
• 24 November 1823: Bill of sale for Patsy, an 8 year old enslaved child who was sold by John Farrer, Orange County, N.C., to Thomas D. Bennehan.
• 1823: Bill of sale for America, an enslaved person about 40 years old who was sold by William Harris to Duncan Cameron.
• 19 March 1824: Bill of sale for Margaret, a 16 year old enslaved child who was sold by James Webb to Thomas D. Bennehan, Orange County, N.C.
• 15 April 1824: Bill of sale for Grace and her children Daniel, Milton, John, and Milly, an enslaved family sold by Joseph Wood, Orange County, N.C., to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C.
• 15 April 1824: Valuation of Grace and her children Daniel, Milton, John, and Milly, given by James Leathers, Yarborough, and Hugh Cain.
• 2 October 1824: Bill of sale for Little Amy, an enslaved person about 20 years old, who was sold by Thomas C. Reavis to Samuel Yarborough.
• 10 August 1824: Bill of sale for Betty, an 8 or 9 year old enslaved child who was sold at auction at the Stagville store on 15 May 1824 by James Gooch for John Farrar, Orange County, N.C., to Thomas D. Bennehan, Orange County, N.C.
• 31 August 1824: Bill of sale for Daniel, an enslaved person about 27 years old who was sold by John J. Carrington, Orange County, N.C., to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C.
• 25 October 1824: Bill of sale for Jincy (or Jessy) and her child Milindid (or Malinda), an enslaved family sold in Hillsborough by Thomas D. Watts, sheriff of Orange County, N.C., for John Taylor, to Richard Younger.
• 23 November 1824: Bill of sale for Jessy (or Jincy) and her child Malinda (or Milindid), an enslaved family who were sold by Richard Younger to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C.
• 28 December 1825: Bill of sale for Fanny, about 19 years old, and her child Ailsy, about 18 months old, an enslaved family who were sold by James Ray, Orange County, N.C., to Thomas D. Bennehan, Orange County, N.C.
• 19 September 1825: Bill of sale for Judy, about 19 years old, and her child Matthew, about 18 months old, an enslaved family who were sold by James Ray, Orange County, N.C., to Thomas D. Bennehan, Orange County, N.C.
• 23 May 1825: Bill of sale for Nelson, an enslaved child sold by John T. Clement, Orange County, N.C., to Thomas D. Bennehan, Orange County, N.C.
• 3 August 1826: Bill of sale for Donald, Isham, Peter, Nelson, Peggy, Nancy, Dinah, Meg, Cherry, Patsy, William (child of Meg?), and Phip (infant child of Nancy), enslaved people who were sold by Thomas D. Bennehan, Orange County, N.C., to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C.
• 21 March 1826: Bill of sale for Sepio, an enslaved person sold by James Ray and Alsay Dunnagan, Orange County, N.C., to Thomas D. Bennehan, Orange County, N.C.
• 9 March 1826: Bill of sale for Elcy, Nanny, Leven, Maria, Julius, Simeon, Sarah, enslaved people who were sold from the estate of John A. Cameron by William Cameron and John M. Dobbin, Cumberland County, N.C., to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C.
• 3 August 1826: Bill of sale for Elsy, Molly, Liza and Alfred, Bett, Kitty, Nat, Tempa, Polly, Nancy, Mark, and Edy; Jack, Dudley, Gilly, Lette, Anthony, Reddia, and David (children of Cressie, who was deceased); and Jack and Peter (children of Ninny, who was deceased), all of whom were enslaved adults and children sold by Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C., to Thomas D. Bennehan, Orange County, N.C.
• 23 November 1828: Bill of sale for Judy, about 19 years old, and her child Matthew, about 2 years old, an enslaved family who were sold by James Ray, Orange County, N.C., to Thomas D. Bennehan, Orange County, N.C.
• 4 November 1828: Bill of sale for Alfred (about 10 years old) and Isaac (about 8 years old), enslaved children who were sold by George A. Connally, Orange County, N.C., to Thomas D. Bennehan, Orange County, N.C.
• 21 October 1828: Receipt for partial payment for sale of Aggy, an enslaved person who was sold by Nancy Laws, Orange County, N.C., to Thomas D. Bennehan, Orange County, N.C.
• 9 October 1828: Bill of sale for Aggy (about 30 years old), an enslaved person who was sold by Nancy Laws, Orange County, N.C., to Thomas D. Bennehan, Orange County, N.C.
• 26 July 1828: Bill of sale for York, Fanny, and their children Monroe, Horton, Mary, and Zachariah, an enslaved family sold by Thomas Brownrig, Orange County, N.C., to Thomas D. Bennehan, Orange County, N.C.
• 25 May 1829: Bill of sale for Cynthia, Dandridge, Frank, John, Mills, Mary, Dilcy, William, Margaret, Ferebee, Ben, Elsy, Henderson, and Annica, who were enslaved people sold from the estate of John Umstead by James Webb and C. H. Campbell, Orange County, N.C., to Thomas D. Bennehan, Orange County, N.C.
• 22 January 1829: Bill of sale for Philip, an enslaved child who was sold by Paul Carrington for Thomas Mitchell, Caswell County, N.C., to Thomas D. Bennehan, Orange County, N.C.
• 15 January 1829: Bill of sale for Amy and her son Abner, an enslaved family who were sold by Samuel Yarborough, Orange County, N.C., to Thomas D. Bennehan, Orange County, N.C. Amy and Abner were previously enslaved by William Laws, deceased, then willed to his daughter Ailsey Laws (married to Thomas C. Reavis) after the death of Frances Law.
• 19 March 1830: legal document tracing the trafficking of Jim, Milly, Sally, Phill, [Lona or Lara?], Peggy, Phillip, Robin, Davy, Harrison, Phillis, Wily, Tabby, Larisa, Jacob, Hannah, [Jenny or Jerry?], Billy, and Rowland, enslaved people who were sold by Frances Tabb, Amelia County, Va., to Theodrick B. Banister, Orange County, N.C., and then to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C. Gillis, [Susannah?], [Nancy?], Flora, Will, Jack, Tom, Davy, [Cay?], Jack, [Mary?], Liddy, Favorite, and [Mary or Nancy?] are also mentioned as enslaved people who were trafficked, possibly to William Barksdaleby way of Duncan Cameron in December 1819.
• 4 April 1831: Bill of sale for Henry, an enslaved child about 13 years old who was sold by Samuel Yarborough, Person County, N.C., to Thomas D. Bennehan. Henry was previously enslaved by Frances Laws.
• 12 September 1832: Bill of sale for Violet, Moreau, Betty, Cornelius, Emeline, Amy, Peggy, Ovid, Robin, and Phoeba, enslaved people who were sold from the estate of John Umstead by James Webb, Orange County, N.C., to Thomas D. Bennehan, Orange County, N.C.
• January 1834: Legal document in which Dilcy and her children Silla (also called Priscilla), Walter, Henderson, Squire, [Mary?], and William, an enslaved family, were trafficked through the will of Elizabeth Laws by James Leathers and Fielding Leathers, Orange County, N.C., to Thomas D. Bennehan, Orange County, N.C. Other people named include Mary Ferguson and William Laws.
• 24 December 1834: Bill of transfer of ownership for Gabriel, Mina, Simeon, and Sarah, who were enslaved people in Orange County; Philip and Jenny and their children Randall, Jim, Ellen, Nancy, and Phill; Patience and her children Tom and Henry; Phillis and her children Anthony, Davy, Robin, Bently, and Frank; Simon, Lizza, and their children Washington, Monroe, Jim, and John; Patt, [?]; Adeline and Mary; [Rowland?] and Caroline; Sally Foster, Melissa and her children Martin and [Lina?]; William and Mary and their children [Dosia?] and [Lona or Lara?]; Absalom and Dick, now at the Mill Quarter Plantation in Person County. Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C., trafficked these enslaved people to Paul C. Cameron, Orange County, N.C.
• 5 March 1835: Bill of sale for Strephon, Nelly, Lucy, William, Demps, Stanly, [Erndy?], and [Len?], who were an enslaved family sold by William Robard, Granville County, N.C., to Paul C. Cameron, Orange County, N.C.
• 21 December 1854: Bill of sale for Essex, an enslaved person sold at public auction by Thomas B. Lyon as guardian for Isaac Adams, Granville County, N.C., to Mildred C. Cameron, Wake County, N.C.
• Undated: Bill of sale for Molly, an enslaved person sold from the estate of Mark Veazey by William Veazey, Granville County, N.C., to Thomas D. Bennehan, Orange County, N.C.
• 5 April 1824: Bill of sale for Isaac, an enslaved person sold by John Buford and Abner Buford, Orange County, N.C., to Duncan Cameron, Orange County, N.C.

Certifications, 1792-1872

Confederate Bonds, 1864

Licenses, 1815-1870

Marriage settlement of Margaret B. Cameron and George W. Mordecai, 1853

Memoranda, 1783-1861

Includes an investment proposal for a superphosphate factory in eastern North Carolina.

Records of enslavement:

• undated: Memoranda for George Anderson mentions Joe, an enslaved person who was directed to work in the garden.
• 6 August 1803: will of Martha Strudwick, in which she emancipated an enslaved woman [Old Silla?] and her children.
• 16 October 1815: legal case describing work of enslaved people upon a glebe, a piece of land for a minister's benefit, that had been giving to John Cameron in the parish of Cumberland in Virginia.
• 11 February 1829: bill of sale for George, Aggy and their children Jim, Squire, Letty, Port(?), and Nancy, an enslaved family who were trafficked from Lawrence [V?] to Duncan Cameron because of debt. [This item is missing as of July 2023.]

Miscellaneous, 1785-1869

Records of enslavement:

• 16 April 1785: Notice concerning Jenny and her children Jack and Violent, an enslaved family who were sold at public auction by Hall ad Hammond to James Cochran at Charleston, S.C.
• Undated: deposition concerning purported damage to plantations near the upper mill that was built in 1835 by Duncan Cameron; mentions that enslaved people built a ford, possibly near to Eno plantation of Mrs. Whit.

Miscellaneous, 1870-1921

Petition for Presidential Pardon, 1865-1866

Presidential pardon by Andrew Johnson of Paul C. Cameron for taking part in the Civil War, 28 September 1865

Powers of Attorney, 1826-1941

Releases, 1828-1883

Stock Certificates, 1838-1895

Stockholder Lists, 1819-1889

Writs, 1804-1816, 1818-1889

Client files: A

Folder 2222: Records of enslavement:

• May 1815: Gideon Alexander and Malachi Jackson, concerning the sale of unidentified enslaved people.

Folder 2226: Records of enslavement:

• April [1815?]: Adm. James Allen vs. Alexander Pedan in New Hanover County, N.C., concerning the emancipation of Jane(?) and Bella, who were identified as the mixed race children of an unidentified enslaved woman claimed as property by James Allen.

Folder 2227: Records of enslavement:

• May 1797: Indenture between Nathaniel Allen and Samuel Dickinson in Edenton, N.C., about the property of the Lake Company(?) of Nathaniel Allen purchased by Samuel Dickinson, including the unidentified enslaved people totaling 32 men, 31 women, and 21 boys and girls. Also mentions the trafficking of Penn, John, Patience, and Bett, all of whom were enslaved. Improvements discussed were to be completed through the trafficked labor of Hardy, [Tow?], Tom, Jim, Ross, Pegg, Nancy, Mourning, Jenny, and Rose, all of whom were enslaved.

Folder 2245: Records of enslavement:

• 17 February 1801: A memorandum between John Randolph Archer of Petersburg, Va., and Frances Cook Tabb of Amelia County, Va., concerning about 35 identified enslaved people.

Folder 2247: Records of enslavement:

• 1845: Margaret Armstrong and Thomas Simonton in Iredell County, N.C., executors concerning the trafficking of the enslaved family of Aggy and her children Hannah, Isaac, and Lucinda.

Folder 2248: Records of enslavement:

• 10 June 1806: Inventory of Silas W. Arnett, including Meriba, an approximately 40 year old enslaved woman he claimed as property.

Client files: A, 20 December 1796

Indenture between Lodwick Alford and David Malone.

Client files: A, 18 September 1812

Indenture between Walter and Amelia Alves and Richard Henderson, 5075 acres in Orange County, N.C. Encapsulated.

Client files: A, 18 September 1812

Indenture between Walter Alves and Richard Henderson, 5075 acres in Orange County, N.C. Second copy. Encapsulated.

Client files: B

Folder 2269: Records of enslavement:

• 14 September 1805: A deed between Thomas Barnett and Joseph Barnett concerning unidentified enslaved people claimed as property. (Damage in the section concerning enslaved people.)

Folder 2271: Records of enslavement:

• 21 December 1806: An agreement between Theodorias Barrister of Petersburg, Va. and Frances Tabb, of Amelia County, Va. concerning the trafficking of about 55 identified enslaved people claimed as property.

Folder 2275: Records of enslavement:

• 6 April 1784: Document concerning Sam, an enslaved man claimed as property by James Belches. Sam self-emancipated by running away from Cabin Point in Surry county, Va., in 1780 and later was found in New Bern, N.C., in the possession of John Smith.

Folder 2276: Records of enslavement:

• 19 July 1807: A will of John Craven of Wake County, N.C., in which he requested that his executors emancipate the enslaved people he claimed as property, [Priscilla?]; Hannah, the daughter of Cherry; and Dilcy, daughter of Hannah. He also willed land to James Turner, Nathaniel Macon, and John Hall in trust for Hannah and Dilcy. He willed to his sister Margaret Craven about 20 identified enslaved people he claimed as property. To Elizabeth Haywood he willed Francis, an enslaved man he claimed as property. He willed in trust to James Turner, Nathaniel Macon(?), and John Hall about 30 identified slaves to be emancipated. After the death of his sister Margaret Craven he willed the plantation to the enslaved people previously identified.
• Undated: A list of 39 identified enslaved people claimed as property by John Craven of Wake County, N.C.

Folder 2280: Records of enslavement:

• 1 August 1805: A complaint filed concerning the ownership of unidentified enslaved people claimed as property by Robert Bell/Thomas Bell in Hillsborough, N.C.

Folder 2281: Records of enslavement:

• 2 January 1804: A response to a bill of complaint in which John Bellamy of Halifax District, N.C. lent Beth, Lucy, Jane, Hannah, Sarah, Beck, Jim, Dave, and Tom, who were enslaved people he claimed as property, to his wife Sally Bellamy.

Folder 2288: Records of enslavement:

• 21 October 1790: A will of Jesse Benton of Orange County, N.C., in which he bequeathed Jack, Milly, and Rose, who were enslaved people he claimed as property, to his wife Nancy Benton. He willed the rest of the enslaved people he claimed as property to his children.

Folder 2292: Records of enslavement:

• 10 April 1806: A will of Samuel Benton of Granville County, N.C., in which he bequeathed Sambo, Gabriel, and Sarah, the enslaved people he claimed as property, to his wife Frances Benton. He also willed Linda, a young enslaved child, to his daughter Penny. Benton expresses his desire for the purchase of another young enslaved child to be the property of his daughter Patty.

Folder 2294: Records of enslavement:

• 31 January 1806: Berry vs. McCallister, concerning the work on a rice machine located on Callea Belville, conducted by 65 unidentified enslaved people as well as the hire of more enslaved people.

Folder 2299: Records of enslavement:

• April 1815: Bishop Moses vs. David Coffield in Halifax County, N.C., concerning the ownership of unidentified enslaved people mentioned in a writ by the plaintiff, excluding Phillip, an enslaved perso who had died since the writing of the writ.

Folder 2312: Records of enslavement:

• Undated: Thomas Booth vs. E. B. Holeway, concerning the trafficking of Ede and her three children (Cayill, Delilah, and an unidentified child), who were an enslaved family claimed as property.

Folder 2326: Records of enslavement:

• 14 May 1804: An inventory of William Binkley in Halifax County, N.C., including 3 unidentified enslaved people.

Folder 2330: Records of enslavement:

• 18 March 1810: A will of Thomas Brooks of Hillsborough, N.C., in which he bequeathed Milly, her child, and her future children, who were the enslaved people he claimed as property, to his son Andrew Brooks. He willed Nancy and her child Elsy, who were enslaved people he claimed as property, to his son William Brooks. He willed Bill, who was an enslaved child, to his daughter Susannah Jack. To his grandson James Brooks, he willed John, an enslaved child,to be trafficked through hiring out. He requested that the enslaved woman, Pegg, be trafficked through sale. He willed that Julia, an enslaved person, be trafficked through sale after the death of his wife Elizabeth Brooks.

Folder 2342: Records of enslavement:

• Undated: A list of property taken by Alexander Tate, deputy marshal for the district of North Carolina, from Richard Simpson, to satisfy an execution issued in favor of Buchannan Dunlop, including Sam, Jack, Peter, London, Daniel, Mall, Rachel, Jenny, Helia, Hannibal, Isaac, and Chinia, all of whom were enslaved. Enslaved families were also listed: Big Jenny and her nine children, Grace and her three children, and Hannah and her child Aggy.

Folder 2343: Records of enslavement:

• July 1771-December 1774: James Allen's account list in which he charged Absalom Merit for the purchase of Kitt, an enslaved person.

Folder 2347: Records of enslavement:

• Undated: Schedule of property which includes 19 unidentified enslaved people claimed as property by John Buford.

Folder 2351: Records of enslavement:

• May 1798: An inventory of the property of Len Henly Bullock of Warren County, N.C., that includes 54 unidentified enslaved people.

Folder 2352: Records of enslavement:

• 7 April 1806: A will of Len Henly (Henley) Bullock of Warren County, N.C., in which to his wife Susanna Henly his bequeathed his plantation including the unidentified enslaved people he claimed as property. He also willed to his son Richard and his daughter Agnes an equal amount of unidentified enslaved people. He willed Mack, an enslaved child who was the son of Cloe, to his grandson Henry Lyne. To his grandson Len Henly Lyne he willed Edmund, an enslaved child who was the son of Cloe. He also stated that after his death, Danniel, an enslaved man, should be given his freedom and 50 acres of land.

Folder 2354: Records of enslavement:

• Undated: A bill in equity between Lockey and Wilhoit and John Holt, concerning the trafficking of Jim, Jack, and Harry, who were enslaved people claimed as property.

Folder 2356: Records of enslavement:

• 16 October 1828: A receipt of a payment by Richard Bullock to James Laws in Orange County, N.C., for the sale of Phill, an enslaved man about 22 or 23 years old.

Folder 2360: Records of enslavement:

• Undated: Jerald Burrow vs. Dobson Burrow, concerning the trafficking of Robin, an enslaved person who was the son of Sue, and Betty, who were claimed as property by John Burrow. Robin was willed to Phillip Burrow after the death of John Burrow.
• Undated (after 1797): Depositions concerning the trafficking of Robin, an enslaved person.

Folder 2361: Records of enslavement:

• 1785: A will of Charles Burton in Caswell County,, N.C., in which he bequeathed Sam, Jack, Anaka, Lucy, and "little Hannah," who were enslaved people he claimed as property, to his wife, Jean Burton. He willed Ben, an enslaved child, to his daughter Dolly Burton. He willed that the rest of the enslaved people (who are not identified by name in the will) not devised be kept together for the use of his sons, Charles, Theoderick, and Robert when they come of age.

Folder 2366: Records of enslavement:

• 1 October 1807: Guilford County, N.C.- A document concerning the trafficking of Will, Phill, Sarah, Kate, Ann, [Lasio?], Enoch, Delila, Violet, and an infant child, all of whom were enslaved people claimed as property by the estate of Abraham Bush.

Client files: B, 17 August 1765

Indenture between Patrick Bogan and John Ray, 225 acres in Orange County, N.C.

Client files: B, 18 August 1760

Indenture between Margaret Boggan and James Boggan.

Client files: B, 22 July 1762

Indenture between Patrick Bogan and John Ray.

Client files: B, 19 January 1763

Indenture between James Bogan and Olsson Martin.

Client files: C-Cle

Folder 2389: Records of enslavement:

• Undated: James Campbell vs. Wm. and N. Nowlett, mentioning an unidentified person enslaved by David Holloway.

Folder 2392: Records of enslavement:

• Undated: An appeal of the case James Carotners vs. Joseph Smith in which the trafficking of unidentified enslaved people is discussed.

Folder 2408: Records of enslavement:

• 10 December 1805: Various depositions concerning Robert Chambers, who moved from Berkeley County, Va. to Kentucky, and the trafficking of unidentified enslaved people.

Folder 2427: Records of enslavement:

• 15 September 1831: An agreement between John H. Adkins and John Scott in Orange County, N.C., concerning the trafficking of Stephen, [Chrescy?], Phebe, Thomas, Rachael, Pompey, William, Honey, Kit and Mary, who were enslaved people in the possession of George Laws.

Client files: Cli-Cu

Folder 2440: Records of enslavement:

• 24 May 1805: An inventory of the estate of William Locke Senior(?), including 5 unidentified enslaved people.

Folder 2455: Records of enslavement:

• April 1815: Cullen Cotton vs. Lewis Powell, concerning the trafficking of unidentified enslaved people who were sent to the home of the plaintiff by John Wall.

Folder 2460: Records of enslavement:

• 1804: A document concerning the judgement obtained by William Crutchfield against Archibald Campbell from the Orange Court of Orange County, N.C., concerning the trafficking of unidentified enslaved people.

Folder 2463: Records of enslavement:

• Undated: A deed of release according to the will of Robert Cummins, in which he bequeathed Austan (Auston), an enslaved person he claimed as property, to his daughter Rachel. He willed Mime and her children Sally and Thankfull, who were an enslaved family, to his daughter Anna.

Folder 2464: Records of enslavement:

• 30 December 1808: A will of Thomas Cummins of Guilford County, N.C., in which he bequeathed Auston (Austan), an enslaved child he claimed as property, to his daughter Rachel. He willed Mime(?) and her children Sally and Thankfull, who were an enslaved family, to his daughter, Anna. He also willed Isaac, who was an enslaved person, to his daughter Margat.
• 15 August 1808: A bill of sale for the trafficking of Auston (Austan), who was an enslaved person claimed as property by Thomas Kemmons. Austan was trafficked through sale to Edward Kemmons, with the condition that he stay in the service of his daughter Rachel. According to the document, Austan was meant to remain in Guilford County.
• 7 February 1809: A bill of sale to Thomas Kimmons and Thomas Kimmons, the sons of Robert Kimmons and Samuel Kimmons respectively, for Mime, an enslaved woman claimed as property by Thomas Kimmons in Guilford County, N.C., as well as her future children, at the death of Anney Kimmons.

Folder 2466: Records of enslavement:

• 17 December 1820: An indenture made between John and Sophia Buford, James Cunningham, and John Shipwith, in county(?) concerning the trafficking of about 30 identified enslaved people claimed as property by John Buford.

Client files: Cli-Cu, 7 June 1773

Indenture between William Cothrell and McCall Elliot, probably Orange County, N.C. land. Laminated.