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Collection Overview
| Size | 3.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 2000 items) |
| Abstract | Prominent Cole and Taylor family members include James C. Cole and his wife, Mary Catharine Cole (1799-1862), of New Bern, N.C., who were the parents of four daughters and two sons. Three of the daughters--Mary Catherine (d. 1900), Harriot G. (circa 1826-1921), and Sarah A. (d. 1900), wife of Alexander Taylor--lived together in Chapel Hill after about 1862 while running a boarding house. James Cole Taylor (b. 1855), surveyor, chemist, metallurgist, railroad superintendent, and banker, was the son of Sarah A. Cole Taylor. The collection includes business, legal, and personal papers of several generations of the Cole and Taylor families of New Bern and Chapel Hill, N.C. Most of the antebellum papers are deeds for land in Craven and Jones counties, N.C. Scattered business and personal correspondence begins to appear around 1812, and includes letters written from New Bern, Raleigh, and other North Carolina towns. Later letters were written from Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee, and New York City. Also included are letters, 1830-1860, addressed to relatives on an Alabama plantation, and overseer's letters from Tennessee plantations. Among the volumes are three account books of James Carney for general merchandise sold at New Bern, 1858-1860; guard reports, 1861-1862, of the 53rd New York Regiment; seven volumes of daily weather records at Chapel Hill, 1890-1909, kept by Mary C. Cole; an 1870 diary of James Cole Taylor; a notebook labelled "General Orders," probably dating from the Civil War; short drafts of letters written by Sarah Taylor; and a record book relating to the Coles' tenants in Chapel Hill and to marriages and births. |
| Creator | Cole (Family : New Bern, N.C.)
Taylor (Family : Taylor, James Cole, 1855-1925) |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Biographical Information
James C. Cole and his wife, Mary Catharine Cole (1799-1862), of New Bern, N.C., were the parents of four daughters and two sons. Three of the daughters--Mary Catherine (d. 1909), Harriot G. (circa 1826-1921), and Sarah A. (d. 1900), wife of Alexander Taylor--lived together in Chapel Hill after about 1862 while running a boarding house. The fourth daughter was Lavinia, who married Frederick C. Roberts of New Bern, N.C. The sons were Hugh Laing Cole (1838-1898), a lawyer in New York, who married Helen Ellis in 1879, and James R. Cole, who died before 1893, leaving a widow, Mary C., daughter Mary C. Gardner, son James G. R. Cole , and daughter Sarah H. James R. Cole's family lived in California, except Sarah H., who lived in New York.
James Cole Taylor (b. 1855), surveyor, chemist, metallurgist, railroad superintendent, and banker, was the son of Sarah A. Cole Taylor and Alexander Taylor. Isaac Montrose Taylor (1857-1921), also a son of Sarah A. Cole Taylor and Alexander Taylor, was a physician and founder of Broadoaks Sanatorium. He was born in New Bern and lived in Morganton.
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Scope and Content
This collection contains business, legal, and personal papers of several generations of the Cole and Taylor families of New Bern and Chapel Hill, N.C.
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Series Quick Links
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Series 1. Correspondence and Legal Papers, 1707-1914.
Arrangement: chronological.
Most of the antebellum papers are deeds for land in Craven and Jones counties, N.C. Scattered business and personal correspondence begins to appear around 1812, and includes letters written from New Bern, Raleigh, and other North Carolina towns. Later letters were written from Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee, and New York City. Also included are letters, 1830-1860, addressed to relatives on an Alabama plantation, and overseer's letters from Tennessee plantations.
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Series 2. Other Papers, 1784-1904, 1995.
Arrangement: by type, then chronological.
Bills and receipts, invitations, writings, newspaper clippings, and volumes. Among the volumes are three account books of James Carney for general merchandise sold at New Bern, 1858-1860; guard reports, 1861-1862, of the 53rd New York Regiment; seven volumes of daily weather records at Chapel Hill, 1890-1909, kept by Mary C. Cole; an 1870 diary of James Cole Taylor; a notebook labelled "General Orders," probably dating from the Civil War; short drafts of letters written by Sarah Taylor; and a record book relating to the Coles' tenants in Chapel Hill and to marriages and births. Also included are a volume of genealogical research by Hugh Laing Cole and Sarah Cole Taylor and a volume of Cole family genealogy and memoirs by Marianne Hayworth.
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