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Abstract | Lenoir family members include William Lenoir, Revolutionary War general and N.C. politician of Fort Defiance, Caldwell County, N.C.; Lenoir's friend and father in law of two of Lenoir's sons Waightstill Avery, lawyer, legislator, and signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration; and his son in law Israel Pickens, N.C. congressman, 1811-1817, governor of Alabama, 1821-1825, and U.S. senator from Alabama, 1826. Also important are William Lenoir's children, especially William Ballard Lenoir of Roane County, Tenn.; Thomas and his wife Selina Louisa Avery Lenoir of Fort Defiance; and Walter Raleigh Lenoir of Boone County, Mo. Much material relates to Thomas and Selina's children, especially William Avery Lenoir; Sarah (Sade) Jones Lenoir of Fort Defiance; Walter Waightstill, a lawyer in Lenoir, N.C., and his wife Cornelia Isabella Christian Lenoir; Thomas Isaac and his wife Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Garrett Lenoir of the family plantation at East Fork of Pigeon, Haywood County, N.C.; Rufus Theodore and his wife Sarah Leonora (Sallie) Gwyn Lenoir of Fort Defiance; son in law Joseph Caldwell Norwood, a teacher in Hillsborough, N.C.; and cousin William Bingham of the Bingham School in Orange County, N.C. There is also material relating to the children of Rufus and Sallie, including Thomas Ballard of Fort Defiance; Rufus Theodore, Jr., of Athens, Ga., and his wife Clyde Lyndon Lenoir; and to members of the related Avery, Norwood, and Pickens families. Correspondence chiefly centers on General William Lenoir of Fort Defiance, Caldwell County, N.C., and his children, especially William Ballard Lenoir of Roane County, Tenn.; Thomas and his wife Selina Louisa Avery Lenoir of Fort Defiance; Walter Raleigh Lenoir of Boone County, Mo.; and son in law Israel Pickens, N.C. congressman, 1811-1817, governor of Alabama, 1821-1825, and U.S. senator from Alabama, 1826. There is also correspondence of members of the Avery, Norwood, and Pickens families. Abstract 1.1.a: Letters relating to politics begin in the 1790s and are chiefly from or to William Lenoir at Fort Defiance. Local and state political topics include Whig politics; lottery ticket sales in support for the University of North Carolina; William Lenoir's militia activities in 1812; internal improvements, especially lobbying for roads and railroads; and political ambitions of various family members. National politics was discussed by William Lenoir's congressional friends in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., including N.C. congressman Lewis Williams. Topics include Revolutionary War pensions; banking and international trade issues; the containment of slavery; Thomas Jefferson and his political opponents; Israel Pickens's career as a member of Congress during the War of 1812 and as Alabama governor; and distaste for Andrew Jackson. Abstract 1.1.b: Business letters relate chiefly to plantation management, including buying, selling, and supervising slaves; land speculation chiefly in North Carolina and Tennessee; and William Lenoir's unsuccessful attempt to retain lands confiscated from Moravians after the Revolutionary War. Family letters express the hopes and aspirations of family members relating to mates, children, careers, and living conditions. Much correspondence relates to the lives of the women of the family. Letters discuss births, marriages, and deaths; the education of male and female family members, chiefly at the Bingham School, Salem Academy, and the University of North Carolina; health issues, especially relating to Waightstill Avery, lawyer, legislator, and signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration; feelings towards slavery; and William Lenoir's exploits at the Battle of King's Mountain. |
Creator | Lenoir family. |
Language | English |
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An overview of Lenoir family history may be gathered from the series descriptions appearing in this inventory. Many sources offer biographical information on particular members of the Lenoir family. These include the Dictionary of American Biography; the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography; and "William Lenoir, 1751-1839" by Richard Alexander Shrader (Ph.D. Dissertation, UNC-CH, 1978).
What appears below is an incomplete outline of the Lenoir family as derived from the collection and other sources. Note that family members tended to name their children after other family members so that first names are repeated over the generations, surnames become first and middle names, and even nick names are repeated from generation to generation.
Other more distantly related persons who contributed significantly to the collection include William Bingham (d. 1873) of the Bingham School in Orange County, N.C.; Eliza (Shie) Bingham Penick; and Julia Adelaide Torrey Oertel (d. 1907), who appears to have been related to Sarah Leonora (Sallie) Gwyn Lenoir and was the wife of Johannes Adam Simon Oertel (1823-1909), religious painter and Episcopal clergyman in Lenoir, N.C., during the 1870s.
Back to TopCorrespondence tends to focus around whichever male members of the Lenoir family are most active at a given time: William Lenoir (1751-1839), William Ballard Lenoir (1775-1852), Thomas Lenoir (1780-1861), William Avery Lenoir (1808-1861), Walter Waightstill Lenoir (1823-1890), Rufus Theodore Lenoir (1825-1912), and Thomas Isaac Lenoir (1817-1882). Wives and other relatives, particularly members of the Avery, Bingham, Norwood, and Pickens families, also heavily contributed to the volume of correspondence, especially when they were active in Lenoir family business.
Note that the numbers for many volumes have been changed; when this is the case, the old volume number is found in parentheses following the volume description.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
Correspondence in this period revolves chiefly around Colonel Thomas Lenoir (1741-1816), his brother General William Lenoir (1751-1839) of Fort Defiance, N.C., William's wife Ann Ballard (1751-1833), and William and Ann's children. Among these children, materials relate chiefly to William Ballard (1775-1852) and his wife Elizabeth Avery (1781-1855) of Roane County, Tenn.; Ann (1778-1838) and her husband General Edmund Jones (1771-1855); Thomas (1780-1861) and his wife Selina Louisa Avery (1783-1864), who first lived in Asheville, but later took charge of Fort Defiance, and their children; Walter Raleigh (1786-1843) and his first wife Polly Elvira Bouchelle (1795-1818) and second wife Sarah Eveline Bouchelle (1798-1877), who settled in Boone County, Mo.; Eliza Mira (1789-1835), who remained at Fort Defiance, and her niece and ward Julia A. M. Pickens (1815-1898), who married Chiliab Howe (1809-1875) and lived in Alabama and Mississippi.
Another daughter was Martha (Patsy) Orilla (1792-1823), mother of Julia Pickens and wife of Israel Pickens (1780-1827). Israel Pickens's correspondence from Washington, D.C., when he was a member of Congress from North Carolina, 1811-1817, and later from Greene County, Ala., where he was elected governor of Alabama in 1821, figures prominently in this series. There are also occasional letters from another daughter, Sarah Joyce (1796-1820), who married Judge Thomas F. Jones and settled in South Carolina.
Towards the end of this period, there is correspondence of Thomas and Selina's children: William Avery (1808-1861), who married Jane K. Derr (d. 1850); Selina Louise (1813-1836), who married Samuel Pickens and settled in Greensboro, Ala.; Laura Leah Carolina, who married Joseph Caldwell Norwood (1815-1889) and lived in Hillsborough, N.C.; Mary Ann (Annie) (1819-1899), who married James Gwyn (1812-1888); Sarah (Sade) Jones (d. 1899), who lived at Fort Defiance; Walter Waightstill (Wat) (1823-1890), who married Cornelia Isabella Christian (1827-1859) and lived in Lenoir, N.C.; Thomas Isaac (Tom) (1817-1882), who married Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Garrett (1844-1880) and lived at East Fork of Pigeon, his father's property at the east fork of the Pigeon River in Haywood County, N.C.; and Rufus Theodore (1825-1912), who married Richard Gwyn's daughter Sarah Leonora (Sallie) (1833-1913) and lived at Fort Defiance. Richard Gwyn was the husband of Colonel Thomas Lenoir's daughter Martha. To a lesser degree, there is also correspondence of William Ballard and Elizabeth's children: Isaac T.; Albert S.; Tommy; and Mira A. There is also correspondence of members of the related Avery, Norwood, and Pickens families.
Letters relating to politics begin in the 1790s and are chiefly from or to William Lenoir at Fort Defiance. Many of the letters relate to local and state politics. These include:
--a letter of 26 November 1791 from William Norwood to William Lenoir about politics and lawyering;
--letters of 1 February and 5 June 1802 to William Lenoir about lottery ticket sales in support of the University of North Carolina;
--a letter of 22 December 1804 from W. Winston to William Lenoir about a trouble along the North Carolina-Georgia border;
--letters of 5 August 1806, 2 July 1809, and 17 September 1815 to William Lenoir from brother Thomas about the latter's chances in local elections;
--letters of 29 April, 22 May, and 9 October 1812 about William Lenoir's raising troops for a local militia unit under orders from Governor William Hawkins and William Lenoir's resignation as Major General in the militia;
--a letter of 16 February 1820 to William Lenoir's nephew Thomas informing him of his selection as commissioner to lay out a road in Haywood County;
--letters of 12 and 27 November 1824 relating to William Lenoir's name being mentioned as candidate for governor and his rejection of the idea;
--a 27 November 1824 letter of William Lenoir to John Stanley, member of the General Assembly in Raleigh, about William Lenoir's opposition to the location of the Wilkes Court House and to its "elegant" design; Letters of 14 March 1825, 18 June 1833, and 10 August 1834, and 8 August 1837 about Revolutionary War pensions from the state;
--occasional letters, beginning in 1822, from Samuel F. Patterson in Raleigh to Walter Raleigh Lenoir about state politics.
There are also many letters about national politics. These include:
--a letter of 22 December 1794 from Joseph McDowell of Philadelphia to William Lenoir on the Jay and Pinckney treaties;
--a letter of 4 February 1894 from Senator Alexander Martin in Philadelphia to William Lenoir about trade with France and problems with Algerian pirates;
--letters from Jesse Franklin in Philadelphia to William Lenoir including the following: 5 April 1796 about Ohio land sales; 25 December 1801 about Jefferson and the war in the Bay of Tripoli; 4 November 1803 and 29 January 1804 about the Louisiana Purchase and the exclusion of slaves from foreign countries there; and 20 June 1812 about the declaration of war against Great Britain;
--letters of 28 March and 20 April 1800 from General Joseph Dickson in Philadelphia to William Lenoir about Napoleon and Dickson's belief that Adams will defeat Jefferson, and 27 January and 24 February 1801 about Burr and Jefferson being equals in the presidential race;
--letter of 5 January 1807 from Joseph Winston in Washington, D.C., to William Lenoir about the Burr conspiracy; ¢a letter of 24 February 1808 from Washington Norwood in Granville County, N.C., to William Lenoir about becoming involved in the European war;
--many letters, beginning in April 1812, from Israel Pickens to William Lenoir about his activities as a member of Congress with particular emphasis on the War of 1812; about life in Washington, D.C., 1812-1817; and from Pickens after 1817 where he served as governor, 1821-1825, including one, dated 18 April 1825, in which Pickens described Lafayette's tour through Alabama;
--fairly frequent letters, beginning in March 1819, from Lewis Williams (1782-1842), North Carolina congressman from 1814 to his death, to William Lenoir about their mutual dislike for Andrew Jackson, whom both considered power hungry and ungracious; international issues, especially tariffs; banking, including a letter of 12 January 1832 on the destruction of the Second Bank of the United States;
--a few letters from William Lenoir on politics, including a letter of 16 February 1824 to William Ballard Lenoir in which he expressed support for Crawford over Calhoun and Jackson; letters in 1832 about why William Lenoir supported Clay over Jackson; letters of 10 and 17 December 1832, 16 February 1836, 30 May 1837, and 3 January 1838, in which he wrote against nullification and for slavery; letters attacking Jackson, including a letter of 2 April 1833, in which he wrote, "I find that many of the deluded wise men of the nation have now formed the opinion that I publicly expressed before General Jackson's first election. To wit that he was the most dangerous man in the nation for a president. Between him and the Nullifiers which (Heaven be thank'd) are opposed to each other but possessed of the same spirit of pride avarice and aspiration, the best Government in the world seems to totter"; and many letters, including those of 18 June 1836 and 4 June 1838 lamenting corruption and big spending in government;
--a letter of 15 July 1828 from Tobias Watkins in Washington, D.C., to Lewis Williams and forwarded to William Lenoir, in which Watkins repeated the rumor that Andrew Jackson was the illegitimate offspring of Fanny Jennings, a "mulato quadroon" of Iredell County, N.C.;
--several letters relating to the removal of Native Americans, including one of 14 January 1830 from Lewis Williams and another of 28 July 1838, in which William Ballard Lenoir wrote, "They [the Cherokee] are quite peaceably disposed and many of them submit to their fate tolerably cheerfully."
Business letters relate chiefly to plantation management, land speculation, and William Lenoir's unsuccessful attempt to retain lands originally belonging to Moravians.
Plantation correspondence begins in 1791 with letters about bringing supplies to Fort Defiance and selling crops and livestock produced there. Many of the letters between William Lenoir and his sons are related to plantation management. A letter of 7 December 1809 discusses collecting rents on Lenoir property, and several, including a letter of 10 March 1813, outline problems with overseers of distant property. Among letters relating to managing slaves are those of 21 March 1809, in which Thomas Lenoir asked that brother Walter Raleigh Lenoir look for a "young wench that he thinks would suit me"; of 2 February, 28 March, and 19 May 1811, in which Thomas and William Lenoir discussed buying and selling slaves and how the price for slaves had recently escalated; and of 11 September 1835, which shows that Walter Raleigh Lenoir had slaves on his Missouri property. Letters of 13 April 1806, 28 March 1837, 23 December 1839, and 10 January 1840 show that the Lenoirs were somewhat sensitive about buying and selling slaves. In the 1837 letter, Thomas Lenoir explained to William Avery Lenoir, who had just sold his own slaves in Alabama and wondered what to do with those of Thomas who were in his care, that William was to ask the slaves whether or not they wanted to be sold. The 1839 and 1840 letters between William Ballard Lenoir in Tennessee and L. G. Jones in North Carolina are about how to avoid breaking up a slave family.
Land-speculation correspondence begins about 1796 and includes letters relating to land in Tennessee, North Carolina, and other states. Some of the letters, such as one from Isaac T. Avery in Morganton to Thomas Lenoir on 15 May 1829, have to do with gold speculation.
Correspondence relating to the Moravian land case begins on 23 July 1809 and continues through at least 1833. Included are a few letters in 1831 from Joseph Cossart in Ireland and James Stuart, Cossart's agent in Pittsburgh.
Family materials in the early years include many letters about family matters to William Lenoir from his brother Thomas Lenoir, but quickly expand to include letters to William Lenoir from his sons, chiefly William Ballard Lenoir and Thomas Lenoir, and among the women of the family. Letters relate chiefly to family activities in general, including documentation of the peregrinations of several family members in search of better land, business opportunities, or living conditions. There are also many letters in which family members indulge in long lists of their own activities and those of children or other relatives and some in which family members outline their feelings about life or other family members. General family letters include:
--a letter of 1 February 1795 from William Ballard Lenoir to William Lenoir asking help in financing continuing education; ¢a letter of 31 October 1801 from Walter Raleigh Lenoir to his father about hating school, and one of 7 February 1806 indicating that Walter was being sent home from school;
--letters of 22 November 1801 and 4 December 1802 relating to Waightstill Avery's being crippled and in process of settling his affairs;
--letters beginning 16 September 1806 from son Thomas Lenoir in Morganton, N.C., to William Lenoir about Thomas's dissatisfaction with life at East Fork of Pigeon and continuing until Thomas moved his family to Fort Defiance around 1822; ¢a letter of 29 September 1807, from Mary Lenoir Davenport in Red Hill, N.C., to Thomas Lenoir's wife Selina about Mary's losing a child in a fire;
--many letters, beginning on 29 June 1810, from William Ballard Lenoir to father William Lenoir or brother Thomas Lenoir about life in Roane County, Tenn.;
--a letter of 4 November 1813 from Israel Pickens to William Lenoir asking for Martha (Patsy)'s hand;
--a letter of 25 February 1817 from nephew Thomas Isaac Lenoir in Sumter District, S.C., to William Lenoir about the death of William's brother Thomas Lenoir;
--letters in May and July 1817 from William Lenoir's daughter Sarah Lenoir Jones in South Carolina to sister Eliza Mira Lenoir about her life with Thomas F. Jones, and one of 9 May 1820 in which Thomas Jones wrote of Sarah's death; ¢a letter of 4 June 1819 in which William Ballard Lenoir instructed his son Albert at Greenville College, Tenn., about how to act in college;
--a letter of 29 March 1821 from Selina Louisa Avery Lenoir's brother Isaac T. Avery of Swanns Pond, N.C., the Avery homestead, to William Ballard Lenoir about the death of Waightstill Avery;
--a letter of 23 August 1824 from Israel Pickens to Thomas Lenoir about the education of Israel's daughter Julia;
--a letter of 21 February 1826 in which James H. Norwood in Hillsborough, N.C., comments to Eliza Mira Lenoir on her unmarried state;
--letters, beginning in August 1829, from Selina Louise, Laura, Sarah, and Walter Waightstill Lenoir, and from Julia Pickens at school in Salem or Hillsborough, N.C., to Selina Louisa Avery Lenoir and other relatives about school life;
--a letter of 1 September 1829 in which Walter Raleigh Lenoir complained to William Lenoir about the large number of slaves in Wilkes County, N.C.: "[It is] infested with Slaves, ... which I conceive to be one of the greatest curses belonging to our Country. Under these considerations and many others I believe it would be advisable to me to visit some other region and see if I can't settle myself more satisfactory than I could in Wilkes. A non Slave holding state I would prefer" (although a letter of 11 September 1835 makes it clear that Walter held slaves in Missouri);
--letters, beginning around February 1835, from Sarah Eveline Lenoir with Walter Raleigh Lenoir in Missouri about life in that state;
--letters in late 1835 showing that Thomas and William Lenoir were having difficulty coexisting at Fort Defiance;
--a letter of 20 June 1837 in which Selina Louisa Avery Lenoir gave an overview of the Avery family;
--a letter of 6 February 1838 in which Thomas Lenoir gave a summary of activities at Fort Defiance;
--a letter of 13 May 1839 from Thomas Lenoir to William Ballard Lenoir informing William of the death of their father, and one of 21 March 1840 from William Avery Lenoir in Greene County, Ala., in which he lamented the fighting among family members over the division of William Lenoir's property.
There are also several letters--24 July 1823; 6 February 1824; 18 February, 28 March, 25 June, 14 November 1834; 8 and 28 May, 6 June 1835; 17 December 1836; 4 July 1837; 11 April 1839--that contain reminiscences of William Lenoir's exploits at the Battle of King's Mountain.
For an exhaustive look at an individual's correspondence, researchers are advised to see the description of Subseries 1.6, Undated Correspondence, which contains letters relating to: Eliza Mira Lenoir (1789-1835); Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Garrett Lenoir (1844-1880); Rufus Theodore Lenoir (1825-1912); Sarah (Sade) Jones Lenoir (d. 1899); Sarah Leonora (Sallie) Gwyn Lenoir (1833-1913); Selina Louisa Avery Lenoir (1783-1864); Thomas Isaac Lenoir (1817-1882); Thomas Lenoir (1780-1861); Walter Waightstill Lenoir (1823-1890); William Avery Lenoir (1808-1861); William Lenoir (1751-1839); and miscellaneous Bingham, Gwyn, Lenoir, Norwood, Oertel, and other family members.
Much correspondence in this period relates to the children of William and Ann Ballard Lenoir, especially William Ballard (1775-1852) and his wife Elizabeth Avery (1781-1855) in Roane County, Tenn.; Ann's husband General Edmund Jones (1771-1855); Thomas (1780-1861) and his wife Selina Louisa Avery (1783-1864), who took charge of Fort Defiance at William Lenoir's death; Walter Raleigh (1786-1843) and his wife Sarah Eveline Bouchelle (1798-1877) in Boone County, Mo.; Eliza Mira (1789-1835) at Fort Defiance, and her niece and ward Julia A. M. Pickens Howe (1815-1898) of Alabama and Mississippi. The greater portion of the correspondence, especially after 1849, relates to the children of Thomas and Selina: William Avery (1808-1861) and his wife Jane K. Derr (d. 1850); Selina Louise (1813-1836) and her husband Samuel Pickens of in Greensborough, Ala.; Laura Leah Carolina and her husband Joseph Caldwell Norwood (1815-1889) of Hillsborough, N.C.; Mary Ann (Annie) (1819-1899) and her husband James Gwyn (1812-1888); Sarah (Sade) Jones (d. 1899) of Fort Defiance; Walter Waightstill (Wat) (1823-1890), a lawyer in Lenoir, N.C., and his wife Cornelia Isabella Christian (1827-1859); Thomas Isaac (Tom) (1817-1882) and his wife Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Garrett (1844-1880) of the family plantation at East Fork of Pigeon, Haywood County, N.C.; and Rufus Theodore (1825-1912) and his wife Sarah Leonora (Sallie) (1833-1913) of Fort Defiance. There is also some correspondence of other Lenoir family members and of members of the related Avery, Bingham, Norwood, and Pickens families.
After the death of William Lenoir, the volume of letters relating to politics greatly decreases. In this period, most of the political letters are to or from William Avery Lenoir, who was active in Whig politics in Alabama, or Joseph Caldwell Norwood (1815-1889) of Hillsborough, N.C., Laura Leah Carolina Lenoir's husband. Some of William Ballard Lenoir's letters to his brother Thomas also contain political musings. These include:
--a letter of 4 April 1840 to William Avery Lenoir in Greensborough, Ala., about the maliciousness of Van Buren's talk against Harrison;
--letters of 14 August 1840 and 15 March and 21 June 1841 to William Avery Lenoir from Joseph Caldwell Norwood about Whigs in North Carolina;
--letters, beginning in February 1841, about Thomas Isaac Lenoir's seeking the Superior Court clerkship in Caldwell County; ¢a letter of 12 July 1843 from William Ballard Lenoir in Tennessee to brother Thomas about politics and William's son's campaign as a Whig candidate for Congress;
--a letter of 1 May 1844 from Walter Waightstill Lenoir to his mother about taking brother Rufus to see Henry Clay in Raleigh;
--a letter of 12 July 1844 from Laura Norwood to her father Thomas Lenoir about the possible division of Orange County, N.C.;
--a letter of 28 April 1845 from William Avery Lenoir in Greensborough, Ala., about the emancipation of slaves in the West Indies being more closely related to economics than humanitarian feelings;
--many letters, beginning in May 1848, relating to the politics of internal improvements, especially roads and railroads;
--letters, beginning in the late 1840s, from S. F. Patterson in Raleigh to William Avery Lenoir about North Carolina politics;
--a letter of 5 January 1860 from James Webb Norwood about a secession meeting in Lenoir.
Business letters relate to plantation management, land speculation, and various other business ventures in which Lenoir family members and their relatives were involved. Much of this correspondence is between Thomas Lenoir at Fort Defiance and his son Thomas Isaac Lenoir at the East Fork of Pigeon plantation. Included are:
--a letter of 5 July 1842 from Joseph Caldwell Norwood about closing Mickle & Norwood, a merchant concern in Hillsborough, because of hard times;
--letters, August to October 1843, from Thomas Isaac and Walter Waightstill Lenoir traveling to New York on plantation business;
--a letter of 3 April 1844 to North Carolina Governor Morehead from William Avery Lenoir on building a female academy at Lenoir;
--a letter of 17 February 1847 from William Ballard Lenoir about how slaves prices had skyrocketed;
--a letter of 20 August 1847 from Thomas Isaac Lenoir reporting on the state of the East Fork of Pigeon plantation, including a discussion of the activities of individual slaves; a letter of 18 November 1851 in which Thomas Isaac Lenoir responded to his father's sending him three slaves by saying, "To me it is gratifying to know that you are willing to trust me with that much property"; and a letter of 24 February 1852 in which Thomas Lenoir discussed a slave sale with Thomas Isaac Lenoir;
--many letters, beginning around 1848, on road and railroad building and how those activities influenced business in the areas they served;
--a letter of 13 December 1852 from William Bouchelle in Columbia, Mo., to Walter Waightstill Lenoir about setting up the University of Missouri and two female schools;
--correspondence in 1858 and 1859 between William Avery Lenoir and Joseph Caldwell Norwood about land sales;
--a letter of 1 March 1860 from Laura Norwood to her uncle Walter Waightstill Lenoir about how much she loved teaching;
--letters in October and November 1860 from Walter Waightstill Lenoir about how much he enjoyed visiting Minnesota because of the liberal attitude he found there towards road construction and other internal improvements.
Family letters include:
--letters in the 1840s from Rufus Lenoir at the Bingham school in Hillsborough and Walter Waightstill Lenoir in Chapel Hill at the University of North Carolina, including some in 1842 about Walter's wanting to leave school;
--many letters to and from Sarah (Sade) Jones Lenoir at Fort Defiance about routine family affairs;
--a letter of 15 November 1843 on the death of Walter Raleigh Lenoir;
--letters, beginning around July 1844, from Julia Pickens Howe, who had recently moved from Alabama to Mississippi;
--letters, beginning around 1844, from James Norwood, a teacher in Hillsborough;
--a letter of 22 January 1856, from Walter Waightstill Lenoir about studying law;
--letters in 1844 and 1845 from Laura Norwood to various relatives about family activities;
--letters in 1847 from James Gwyn studying at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia;
--many letters, beginning in the early 1850s, from Walter Waightstill Lenoir, practicing law in Lenoir;
--letters in 1849 from Jane and William Avery Lenoir from Warm Springs and Catawba Springs where they had gone for Jane's health, and a letter in August 1850 about Jane's death;
--a letter of 6 November 1852 from William Ballard Lenoir about his ill health and another of 12 December 1852 about his death;
--letters, beginning around 1855, from William Bingham, then at school in Chapel Hill and later a schoolmaster with his father at the W. J. Bingham & Sons Select School in Orange County, chiefly to cousin Walter Waightstill Lenoir, with whom he was great friends, or to Sarah Jones Lenoir, whom he called Aunt Sade;
--letters, beginning in the mid-1850s, from Rufus Lenoir, permanently settled at Fort Defiance;
--many letters, beginning in early 1856, between Walter Waightstill Lenoir and Cornelia (Nealy) Isabella Christian, before and after their June 1856 marriage; letters, beginning in April 1857, about Nealy's ill health; letters in 1858 about the birth and death of their daughter Anna Tate Lenoir and about trips made by Nealy to springs in Virginia and North Carolina for her health; and a few letters in 1859 about Nealy's death on 7 February of that year.
For an exhaustive look at an individual's correspondence, researchers are advised to see the description of Subseries 1.6, Undated Correspondence, which contains letters relating to: Eliza Mira Lenoir (1789-1835); Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Garrett Lenoir (1844-1880); Rufus Theodore Lenoir (1825-1912); Sarah (Sade) Jones Lenoir (d. 1899); Sarah Leonora (Sallie) Gwyn Lenoir (1833-1913); Selina Louisa Avery Lenoir (1783-1864); Thomas Isaac Lenoir (1817-1882); Thomas Lenoir (1780-1861); Walter Waightstill Lenoir (1823-1890); William Avery Lenoir (1808-1861); William Lenoir (1751-1839); and miscellaneous Bingham, Gwyn, Lenoir, Norwood, Oertel, and other family members.
There are a few letters relating to politics during this period; as might be expected, those that exist relate to the Civil War. In business and family correspondence, however, there is a notable lack, with some exceptions, of comment on the war and its home-front repercussions. In this period, Sarah (Sade) Jones Lenoir, Rufus Theodore Lenoir, and his wife Sarah Leonora (Sallie) Gwyn Lenoir lived at Fort Defiance; Thomas Isaac Lenoir and his wife Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Garrett Lenoir lived at East Fork of Pigeon; and Walter Waightstill Lenoir began practicing law in Lenoir, N.C., and ended living alone in a cabin in the woods at Crab Orchard in Caldwell or Watauga County, N.C.
Letters with a particularly political or Civil War slant include the following:
--letters of 3 January and 10 and 15 April 1861 that comment on secession and the attack on Fort Sumter;
--a letter of 25 June 1861 in which William Ballard Lenoir in Roane County, Tenn., advised a cousin that his cotton factory could get along without Yankee business for a year or two;
--letters, beginning with one of 2 July 1861, from Thomas Isaac Lenoir to Walter Waightstill Lenoir and others about raising a volunteer company, and, beginning in September 1861, to his wife, parents, and brothers from Thomas at various army camps, chiefly about military life and battles;
--a letter of 3 August 1861 from N. H. Gwyn to cousin Rufus Theodore Lenoir from Manassas Junction, Va., about the battle there;
--letters, beginning with one of 5 January 1862, from Walter Waightstill Lenoir, chiefly to his mother and brothers from various locations in the field until September 1862, when Walter was injured at Manassas and treated at the home of a friend in Middleburg, Va., where his right leg was amputated below the knee. Walter was home by late 1862, and, on 12 January 1863, wrote to brother Thomas about having a wooden leg made and attending the county court;
--letters, beginning in June 1863, from Thomas L. Norwood from the field to various relatives about military life;
--a letter of 23 July 1863 from Walter Waightstill Lenoir to a brother about his fear slaves will be armed and freed by the advancing Northern soldiers: "If the Yankees are strong enough to put down our fierce and strong fight for independence, they will be strong enough to govern the negroes";
--a letter of 5 February 1865 from Zebulon Baird Vance to Walter Waightstill Lenoir in which Vance wrote: "... pray God to strengthen our people for the cruel and unequal contest";
--letters in April 1865 containing descriptions of Stoneman's descent into Yadkin Valley;
--a letter of 30 December 1865 in which Walter Waightstill Lenoir resigned the position of Councillor of State to which he had been elected against his will.
Business letters include the 25 June 1861 William Ballard Lenoir letter mentioned above about his cotton factory; infrequent reports from overseers, particularly at East Fork of Pigeon, and comments on planting, particularly from Rufus Theodore Lenoir at Fort Defiance; a letter of 4 March 1863 in which Thomas L. Norwood wrote to uncle Walter Waightstill Lenoir about how uncomfortable Thomas was with the idea of being a teacher like others in his family; and a letter of 20 March 1863 relating to the sale of a slave and the seller's refusal to accept Confederate money.
Besides family letters relating chiefly to Civil War activities of family members, there are also:
--letters in April and May 1861 relating to the deaths of William Avery Lenoir and Thomas Lenoir and ones in September 1864 relating to the death of Selina Louisa Avery Lenoir;
--many letters to and from Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Lenoir, wife of Thomas Isaac Lenoir, at East Fork of Pigeon;
--a letter of 19 August 1861 from Thomas L. Norwood to Sarah (Sade) Jones Lenoir about how much he liked being a student at the University of North Carolina;
--many letters, beginning around April 1863, relating to Walter Waightstill Lenoir's preference for living alone in various rustic cabins.
For an exhaustive look at an individual's correspondence, researchers are advised to see the description of Subseries 1.6, Undated Correspondence, which contains letters relating to: Eliza Mira Lenoir (1789-1835); Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Garrett Lenoir (1844-1880); Rufus Theodore Lenoir (1825-1912); Sarah (Sade) Jones Lenoir (d. 1899); Sarah Leonora (Sallie) Gwyn Lenoir (1833-1913); Selina Louisa Avery Lenoir (1783-1864); Thomas Isaac Lenoir (1817-1882); Thomas Lenoir (1780-1861); Walter Waightstill Lenoir (1823-1890); William Avery Lenoir (1808-1861); William Lenoir (1751-1839); and miscellaneous Bingham, Gwyn, Lenoir, Norwood, Oertel, and other family members.
Folder 143-146
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1861 #00426, Subseries: "1.3. 1861-1865." Folder 143-146 |
Folder 147-150
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1862 #00426, Subseries: "1.3. 1861-1865." Folder 147-150 |
Folder 151-153
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1863 #00426, Subseries: "1.3. 1861-1865." Folder 151-153 |
Folder 154-155
Folder 154Folder 155 |
1864 #00426, Subseries: "1.3. 1861-1865." Folder 154-155 |
Folder 156-157
Folder 156Folder 157 |
1865 #00426, Subseries: "1.3. 1861-1865." Folder 156-157 |
Although family members remained active in the political arena, with Walter Waightstill Lenoir serving in the North Carolina General Assembly, 1883-1884, most of correspondence from this period relates to business and family matters.
Politics looms large in the following:
--letters in early 1866 among friends and relatives that mention their feelings towards freedmen;
--a letter of 2 January 1866 from Walter Waightstill Lenoir to sister Sarah (Sade) Jones Lenoir about the superiority of the southern females over women in the North;
--a few letters in 1866 and infrequently until his death in 1873 from William Bingham of the Bingham School to Walter Waightstill Lenoir about politics in general;
--letters around 1874 from Thomas Isaac Lenoir to various family members, some of which have references to local politics;
--a letter of 5 February 1878 from Senator M. W. Ransom to Walter Waightstill Lenoir about the currency question and one from Ransom of 6 January 1881 about politics in Raleigh;
--a letter of 26 April 1875 of nephew William Ballard Lenoir, a lawyer in Asheville, N.C., to Walter Waightstill Lenoir about the African-American exodus northward;
--letters of 24 February 1880 and 13 February 1886 from Zebulon Baird Vance to Walter Waightstill Lenoir about Democratic politics;
--a few letters in 1883, especially one of 1 February, relating to Walter Waightstill Lenoir's service in the North Carolina General Assembly (there are no letters relating to his campaign for office).
Business letters relate chiefly to the dealings, beginning around 1867, of Walter Waightstill Lenoir in land development, especially relating to land around Linville, N.C.; specie speculation; silver mining; and agriculture. Most of his dealings were done in conjunction with one or more of his brothers or other relatives. There are also letters from relatives in other parts of the country about their business ventures. These include:
--letters of 19 and 21 December 1867 and 29 March 1868 from Sam Christian in Bandera, Tex., to Walter Waightstill Lenoir about the business climate in Texas;
--frequent letters from Tennessee family members, including James W. Norwood, involved in the land, factories, and mills;
--a letter of 23 February 1875 from Walter B. Gwyn at the University of Virginia to Walter Waightstill about steam engines;
--a letter of 11 February 1879 from Walter Waightstill Lenoir to a brother about hard times and his trying to "... make a few scratches towards preparing my land for nephews and nieces who will now have it in the wild state that I will leave it when I die. The fault will be in them, not the land. But our government so burdens us with debt and made extravagance that it is no longer easy to live by farming, & I don't wonder that so few of the rising generation of educated people have the heroism to try it";
--many letters in the 1880s from Walter B. Gwyn, lawyer and land agent in Asheville, to Walter Waightstill Lenoir about the business Gwyn handled for his uncle;
--infrequent letters throughout this period from Thomas L. Norwood, still a teacher at Bingham's School;
--letters in late 1890 showing that Thomas Ballard Lenoir quickly became a prime mover in the Linville Land, Mfg. and Mining Company, both as executor of Walter Waightstill Lenoir's estate and on his own behalf.
Family correspondence accounts for most of the letters in this period. Letters are to and from the Lenoir brothers, Sarah (Sade) Jones Lenoir, Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Garrett Lenoir, Laura Norwood, Thomas L. Norwood, and others. Included are:
--letters of February 1867 and 21 June 1869 from Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Garrett Lenoir to her husband Thomas Isaac Lenoir about what appears to be an eating disorder that plagued her, and one from Thomas to a pregnant Lizzie at Montvale Spring, N.C., on 24 July 1869, in which he wrote: "I ... can't help feeling that you are sick, but try to hope that you are getting fat--regaining your self control, forming plans for future usefulness, denying yourself momentary enjoyment, that you may recover health & strength & be happy in making others so";
--a letter of 14 December 1869 describing the death of Thomas Isaac and Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Garrett Lenoir's baby;
--a letter of 14 December 1869 in which Laura Norwood mentions artist and Episcopal clergyman Johannes Adam Simon Oertel and letters, beginning in September 1877, from Julia Adelaide Torrey Oertel, chiefly to Sarah Leonora (Sallie) Gwyn Lenoir;
--a letter of 24 February 1873 about the death of William Bingham;
--letters in 1875 and 1876 relating to the difficulties Thomas Ballard Lenoir was having at Bingham's School and, in 1879-1880, about his life as a student at the University of North Carolina;
--letters, around September 1877 mourning the deaths of Rufus Theodore and Sarah Leonora (Sallie) Gwyn Lenoir's daughters Louisa (Loula) and Elizabeth (Bessie);
--letters, beginning around June 1878, from Thomas L. Norwood to Walter Waightstill Lenoir documenting Thomas's peregrinations in Tennessee, Texas, Mississippi, and other states in search of the ideal teaching position;
--a letter of 11 March 1880 from Walter B. Gwyn in Asheville to Walter Waightstill in which he enclosed a plan for a small house;
--letters in November 1880 documenting the death of Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Garrett Lenoir;
--a letter of 8 January 1882 documenting the death of Thomas Isaac Lenoir;
--a letter of 9 August 1890 documenting the death of Walter Waightstill Lenoir.
For an exhaustive look at an individual's correspondence, researchers are advised to see the description of Subseries 1.6, Undated Correspondence, which contains letters relating to: Eliza Mira Lenoir (1789-1835); Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Garrett Lenoir (1844-1880); Rufus Theodore Lenoir (1825-1912); Sarah (Sade) Jones Lenoir (d. 1899); Sarah Leonora (Sallie) Gwyn Lenoir (1833-1913); Selina Louisa Avery Lenoir (1783-1864); Thomas Isaac Lenoir (1817-1882); Thomas Lenoir (1780-1861); Walter Waightstill Lenoir (1823-1890); William Avery Lenoir (1808-1861); William Lenoir (1751-1839); and miscellaneous Bingham, Gwyn, Lenoir, Norwood, Oertel, and other family members.
Correspondence during this period is almost exclusively related to business or family matters.
Business dealings revolved around Thomas Ballard Lenoir and other family members in their dealings with the Linville Improvement Company. Much of this material was generated as a result of complications arising from Walter Waightstill Lenoir's estate, for which Thomas Ballard Lenoir was executor. Many letters deal with lawsuits surrounding estate disputes, but there are also letters relating to other lawsuits in which the Linville Improvement Company seems to have been mired. Besides Thomas Ballard Lenoir, some of the chief business players were: J. McDowell Michal of the Piedmont Wagon Company, husband of Mary (Mame), who was Thomas Isaac and Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Garrett Lenoir's daughter; Walter B. Gwyn, lawyer and land agent in Asheville; Edmund Jones (William Lenoir was his maternal great-grandfather), lawyer of Lenoir; Hugh MacRae of Wilmington Cotton Mills; and, to a lesser extent, the Norwood relations in Tennessee and Rufus Theodore Lenoir at Fort Defiance.
Family correspondence involves many members of the Lenoir, Gwyn, Norwood, and related families. Chief among the correspondents are Sarah Leonora (Sallie) Gwyn Lenoir and her son Rufus Theodore Lenoir, Jr., who, during this period attended the Rutherford Military Institute in Rutherfordton, N.C.; the Davis School, in Winston, N.C.; and, for a short time, the A. & M. College in Raleigh. Around 1897, Rufus seems to have married Clyde Lyndon and settled with his bride in Athens, Ga., where he was either working or in school and she wrote a great number of interminable letters to her mother-in-law about the most minute details of their largely uneventful lives. Also included are:
--letters, beginning in 1891, from J. McDowell Michal to his wife Mary (Mame) as he travelled for business;
--many letters, beginning around 1892, from Julia Adelaide Torrey Oertel to Sarah Leonora (Sallie) Gwyn Lenoir about family affairs and the work of Johannes Adam Simon Oertel, and a letter of 16 September 1906 from Johannes Oertel to Sallie about his trip home to Vienna;
--a letter of 20 January 1899 documenting the death of Sarah (Sade) Jones Lenoir;
--a letter of 20 April 1937 from Robert W. Bingham, William Bingham's grandson, giving a brief history of the Bingham School.
For an exhaustive look at an individual's correspondence, researchers are advised to see the description of Subseries 1.6, Undated Correspondence, which contains letters relating to: Eliza Mira Lenoir (1789-1835); Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Garrett Lenoir (1844-1880); Rufus Theodore Lenoir (1825-1912); Sarah (Sade) Jones Lenoir (d. 1899); Sarah Leonora (Sallie) Gwyn Lenoir (1833-1913); Selina Louisa Avery Lenoir (1783-1864); Thomas Isaac Lenoir (1817-1882); Thomas Lenoir (1780-1861); Walter Waightstill Lenoir (1823-1890); William Avery Lenoir (1808-1861); William Lenoir (1751-1839); and miscellaneous Bingham, Gwyn, Lenoir, Norwood, Oertel, and other family members.
Undated letters tend to relate to family affairs, although there are a few instances of undated business letters. Letters have been grouped by recipient/sender. There is some slight overlap in this arrangement scheme, as when Sarah Leonora (Sallie) Gwyn Lenoir wrote to her husband Rufus Theodore Lenoir or to her sister-in-law Sarah (Sade) Jones Lenoir. Researchers interested in an exhaustive look at an individual's correspondence are advised to check all of the likely folders.
Folder 217 |
Eliza Mira Lenoir (1789-1835), about 10 items. #00426, Subseries: "1.5. Undated." Folder 217Chiefly routine letters from family and friends. |
Folder 218-220
Folder 218Folder 219Folder 220 |
Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Garrett Lenoir (1844-1880), about 95 items. #00426, Subseries: "1.5. Undated." Folder 218-220Chiefly routine family letters, including many from Mary (Mame) Lenoir Michal. |
Folder 221 |
Rufus Theodore Lenoir (1825-1912), about 25 items. #00426, Subseries: "1.5. Undated." Folder 221Includes a few from his wife and his brothers. |
Folder 222-224
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Sarah (Sade) Jones Lenoir (d. 1899), about 110 items. #00426, Subseries: "1.5. Undated." Folder 222-224Chiefly routine letters from cousins and other relatives, including Laura Norwood, Eliza Bingham Penick, and Mary Ann Gwyn. |
Folder 225-226
Folder 225Folder 226 |
Sarah Leonora (Sallie) Gwyn Lenoir (1833-1913), about 100 items. #00426, Subseries: "1.5. Undated." Folder 225-226Chiefly routine family letters, especially from Rufus Lenoir, Jr., and his wife Clyde, and from Julia Oertel. |
Folder 227-228
Folder 227Folder 228 |
Selina Louisa Avery Lenoir (1783-1864), about 40 items. #00426, Subseries: "1.5. Undated." Folder 227-228Chiefly routine letters from her children, especially Laura Norwood. |
Folder 229-230
Folder 229Folder 230 |
Thomas Isaac Lenoir (1817-1882), about 30 items. #00426, Subseries: "1.5. Undated." Folder 229-230Chiefly routine business and family letters. |
Folder 231 |
Thomas Lenoir (1780-1861), about 15 items. #00426, Subseries: "1.5. Undated." Folder 231Chiefly routine letters from his children, especially Thomas Isaac Lenoir. |
Folder 232 |
Walter Waightstill Lenoir (1823-1890), about 15 items. #00426, Subseries: "1.5. Undated." Folder 232Chiefly routine family and business letters. |
Folder 233 |
William Avery Lenoir (1808-1861), 3 items. #00426, Subseries: "1.5. Undated." Folder 233Chiefly relating to routine business matters. |
Folder 234 |
William Lenoir (1751-1839), about 20 items. #00426, Subseries: "1.5. Undated." Folder 234Includes a few typed copies of letters from William Lenoir on political themes and some routine business and family letters. |
Folder 235-236
Folder 235Folder 236 |
Miscellaneous family members, about 55 items. #00426, Subseries: "1.5. Undated." Folder 235-236Includes letters to or from Laura Norwood, Louisa Norwood, and Mary (Mame) Lenoir Michal. |
Folder 237-238
Folder 237Folder 238 |
Unknown recipients and senders, about 30 items. #00426, Subseries: "1.5. Undated." Folder 237-238Includes letters and letter fragments. |
Arrangement: by type.
Included are William and Walter Waightstill Lenoir's diaries describing their military experiences; Selina Louisa Avery Lenoir's travel diary; drafts of speeches, addresses, and writings of William Lenoir; religious, school, political, and business writings, including some poetry, of other members of the Lenoir family; and newspaper clippings and other printed material. Diary entries and travel memoranda are also found in Series 5.
Arrangement: chronological.
Processing Note: When a volume's number has changed as a result of reprocessing, the old number may be found in parentheses following the volume description.
Diaries of William Lenoir, Selina Louisa Avery Lenoir, and Walter Waightstill Lenoir. The diaries of William and Walter Waightstill Lenoir describe their military experiences in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. Selina Louisa Avery Lenoir's diary details a journey she made to visit her family and friends. Diary entries for William Avery Lenoir can be found in Series 5.1.3. Travel memoranda and diary entries for members of the Lenoir family are also found in Series 5.
Folder 239 |
V-426/1: 1776, 40 pp., 14 pp., 4 pp. #00426, Subseries: "2.1. Diaries, 1776-1863, 1940." Folder 239Vol. 1 is in three sections. 1A is William Lenoir's journal of an expedition against the Cherokee Indians in the mountains of North Carolina in 1776, which contains daily entries and accounts and memoranda for the expedition. 1B is a reprint of the text of the diary accompanied by an introduction and annotations by J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, 1940. 1C is a typed transcription of an account of the 1776 Cherokee expedition purportedly written by William Lenoir in June 1835 (2). |
Folder 240 |
V-426/2: August 1852?, 12 pp. #00426, Subseries: "2.1. Diaries, 1776-1863, 1940." Folder 240Selina Louisa Avery Lenoir's diary, describing a trip to visit family and old friends. |
Folder 241 |
V-426/3: 1862-1863, 28 pp. #00426, Subseries: "2.1. Diaries, 1776-1863, 1940." Folder 241Walter Waightstill Lenoir Civil War diary (typed transcription only). Lenoir served in both the 25th and the 37th North Carolina Regiment. The diary describes camp life at Camp Lee in Beaufort District, S.C., battles and skirmishes, and the loss of his leg and subsequent rehabilitation (209). |
Arrangement: chronological.
Writings of William Lenoir on his military and political activities, as well as the religious, school, political, and business writings of other members of the Lenoir family. There is also some religious, humorous, and love poetry.
Arrangement: chronological.
Drafts of speeches, addresses, and writings of William Lenoir are on his military and political activities, and on public issues of the day, including the National Bank, nullification, the tariff, and slavery. There are typed transcriptions for several documents.
Arrangement: chronological.
Other writings consist of poetry on a variety of subjects, including political satire, motherhood, and "A Lawyer's Prayer"; an obituary of William Lenoir; and the religious, school, political, and business writings of other members of the Lenoir family.
Arrangement: chronological.
Processing Note: When a volume's number has changed as a result of reprocessing, the old number may be found in parentheses following the volume description.
Volumes include a book of religious, humorous, and love poetry and an address to the Temperance Society.
Folder 250 |
V-426/4: 1840-1848, 22 pp. #00426, Subseries: "2.2.3. Volumes of Writings, 1840-1848." Folder 250Book of "Pastime or Holyday Verses," with three keepsakes enclosed (175). |
Folder 251 |
V-426/5: 1843, 16 pp. #00426, Subseries: "2.2.3. Volumes of Writings, 1840-1848." Folder 251Address to Temperance Society. |
Arrangement: chronological.
Clippings on national and international politics, war, business, religion, social issues, human interest stories, and agriculture; pages from missionary and gardening newspapers; business, financial, and religious handbills, circulars, and brochures; invitations; maps and charts; advertisements; and obituaries.
Arrangement: chronological.
Newspaper clippings are on a variety of topics, including international and national politics; the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812; land sales and foreclosures; obituaries; the lottery; poetry; religion; social issues of the day; medical cures and agricultural notes; Irish humor and culture; and customs from other countries. There are also several pages from the Protestant Episcopal Church's missionary newspapers and a gardening newspaper.
Arrangement: chronological.
Various business, financial, and religious handbills, circulars, and brochures; invitations; maps and charts; advertisements for books, medicine, land, livestock, and seed; Protestant Episcopal Church material; and obituaries.
Arrangement: by type.
Included are the Lenoir family's household, plantation, legal, business, and political records. Household and plantation records include financial and legal papers and memoranda; papers relating to property and plantation management; and livestock, blacksmith, medical, and school records. Lenoir family legal records include family legal papers, notes and memoranda of legal cases, and estate papers of members of the Lenoir family and related individuals. Business papers relate to various professional and business activities, including papers relating to family finances and taxes and bank statements. Political papers include political writings and memoranda, election returns, and papers pertaining to county business. Other plantation accounts and related financial and business volumes are found in Series 5. Additional household and plantation records of W. W. Lenoir are in volume 292 (Series 6.3).
Arrangement: chronological.
Household and plantation records consist of financial and legal papers and memoranda for the household and plantation activities of the Lenoir family, including household events and expenses; slave records; recipes and distilling records; bills and receipts for plantation expenses; papers relating to property and plantation management; stud books; and livestock, blacksmith, medical, and school records. Other plantation accounts are found in Series 5.
Arrangement: chronological.
Household and plantation financial and legal papers for William, Thomas, Walter Raleigh, William Avery, Walter Waightstill, Thomas Isaac, and Rufus Theodore Lenoir. Items include barter and patent agreements, distilling licenses, lottery tickets, accounts of rents, newspaper subscriptions, and bills of sale and receipts for general merchandise, livestock, household items, slaves, clothing, fabric and sewing supplies, construction supplies, agricultural supplies and farm equipment, freight and shipping, travel, and for sales of provisions to others.
Arrangement: chronological.
Household and plantation notes and memoranda of the Lenoir family, including records of payment of household expenses; notes on agreements for plantation work; specifications for a carriage; house plans and dimensions; lists of slave birth dates, work records, and provisions for each family; recipes for dyes, wine, cordials, and cakes; memoranda of bacon and corn sold; distillery notes; lists of plantation and household items, fruit trees and crops, and fabric; family history; records of family loans; calling cards and invitations; loose memoranda of plantation work and expenses, including beekeeping; and a presidential pardon for a Civil War veteran.
Arrangement: chronological.
Processing Note: When a volume's number has changed as a result of reprocessing, the old number may be found in parentheses following the volume description.
Household records include Selina Louisa Avery Lenoir's memorandum books of household furnishings, visitors to Fort Defiance, and family history, and a card game score book.
Folder 283 |
V-426/6: 1834-1841, 19 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.3. Household Records, 1834-1892." Folder 283Selina Louisa Avery Lenoir's memorandum book, describing foreigners and other visitors to Fort Defiance, and family history and genealogical information (153). |
Folder 284 |
V-426/7: 1848-1853, 9 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.3. Household Records, 1834-1892." Folder 284Selina Louisa Avery Lenoir's lists of linens, bedding, and other household furnishings at Fort Defiance (186). |
Folder 285 |
V-426/8: 1851, 8 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.3. Household Records, 1834-1892." Folder 285Genealogical and family notes for the McClain, Spenn, Avery, and Lenoir families (190). |
Folder 286 |
V-426/9: 1892, 14 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.3. Household Records, 1834-1892." Folder 286Card game score book for hearts, whist, and casino. |
Arrangement: chronological.
Processing Note: When a volume's number has changed as a result of reprocessing, the old number may be found in parentheses following the volume description.
Plantation records include Lenoir family account books for corn, wheat, bacon, cotton, and general provisions; William Lenoir's distilling recipe book; Thomas Lenoir's records of his slaves' textile work and their consumption of provisions at the East Fork of Pigeon plantation in Haywood County, N.C.; a smokehouse memorandum book; and Rufus Theodore Lenoir's record of rents paid at his Lower Creek Farm in Yadkin Valley, N.C. Other plantation accounts are found in Series 5.
Folder 287 |
V-426/10: 1785, 15 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.4. Plantation Records, 1785-1899." Folder 287William Lenoir's account book for corn and wheat (21C). |
Folder 288 |
V-426/11: 1806-1808, 24 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.4. Plantation Records, 1785-1899." Folder 288Plantation account book for various individuals' purchases of whiskey, corn, and other plantation items (83). |
Folder 289 |
V-426/12: 1806-1808, 66 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.4. Plantation Records, 1785-1899." Folder 289William Lenoir's distilling book, containing recipes for beer, brandy, cider, and whiskey, and an enclosure describing a method of stilling (90). |
Folder 290 |
V-426/13: May-December 1807, 16 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.4. Plantation Records, 1785-1899." Folder 290William Lenoir's account book for corn sales (87). |
Folder 291 |
V-426/14: 1833-1841, 5 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.4. Plantation Records, 1785-1899." Folder 291Account book for cotton prices (151). |
Folder 292 |
V-426/15: January 1834-December 18351841, 28 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.4. Plantation Records, 1785-1899." Folder 292Record of slave activities at Thomas Lenoir's East Fork of Pigeon plantation in Haywood County, N.C., including a record of consumption of bacon, lard, and cotton and records of spinning and weaving work (152). |
Folder 293 |
V-426/16: 1853, 10 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.4. Plantation Records, 1785-1899." Folder 293Account book for bacon sales. |
Folder 294 |
V-426/17: 1862-1864, 21 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.4. Plantation Records, 1785-1899." Folder 294Thomas Isaac Lenoir's account book for spinning, weaving, knitting, and mending, with two enclosed clippings (210). |
Folder 295 |
V-426/18: 1864, 7 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.4. Plantation Records, 1785-1899." Folder 295Memorandum book for smokehouse and meat (211). |
Folder 296 |
V-426/19: 1870-1899, 33 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.4. Plantation Records, 1785-1899." Folder 296Accounts and rents for Rufus Theodore Lenoir's Lower Creek Farm in Yadkin Valley, N.C., with 11 enclosed receipts and memoranda (216). |
Arrangement: chronological.
Livestock records and stud books chiefly of William Lenoir, and including stud books for William Lenoir's stallions, lists of pedigrees and bloodlines, and breeding and feeding accounts for donkeys, mules, cattle, and horses. See also Series 5.1. and 5.3.
Arrangement: chronological.
Livestock records include bills of sale and receipts for horses, donkeys, mules, and cattle; agreements for stud fees and establishing pedigrees and bloodlines; accounts and descriptions of horses and "horse creatures," and cattle and steer driven to range or market; memoranda of feed; breeding records; and a deposition regarding a "bad-eyed mare."
Arrangement: chronological.
Processing Note: When a volume's number has changed as a result of reprocessing, the old number may be found in parentheses following the volume description.
Stud record books are for William Lenoir's various stallions, including Whirligigg, Boreas, Jupiter, and Rameles. Books contain notes for each customer and mare, with occasional memoranda on special arrangements and pedigrees of the stallions. There are other stud records in Series 5.1.1.
Arrangement: chronological.
Blacksmith records are chiefly bills and receipts for blacksmith work, equipment, and supplies, and accounts of individuals for blacksmith work. See also Series 5.3.
Arrangement: chronological.
Bills and receipts for blacksmith work and equipment.
Folder 308 |
1792-1877 #00426, Subseries: "3.1.6.1. Blacksmith Records, 1792-1877." Folder 308 |
Arrangement: chronological.
Processing Note: When a volume's number has changed as a result of reprocessing, the old number may be found in parentheses following the volume description.
Accounts of various individuals with William Lenoir for blacksmith work.
Folder 309-310
Folder 309Folder 310 |
V-426/29: 1794-1795, 87 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.6.2. Blacksmith Account Books, 1794-1819." Folder 309-310Blacksmith account book and six enclosed bills and memoranda about smith work (45). |
Folder 311 |
V-426/30: 1797-1801, 79 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.6.2. Blacksmith Account Books, 1794-1819." Folder 311Blacksmith account book for work done and iron sold (58). |
Folder 312 |
V-426/31: 1801-1809, 1819, 179 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.6.2. Blacksmith Account Books, 1794-1819." Folder 312Blacksmith account book (71). |
Arrangement: by type.
Descriptions of medical cases and treatments, agreements between Thomas Isaac Lenoir and physicians for treatment of his family, bills and receipts for medical treatment and prescriptions for the Lenoir family, and books of medical cures.
Arrangement: chronological.
Various members of the Lenoir family collected descriptions of medical cases and treatments, including those for cancer, "hooping cough," dysentery, tuberculosis, and rash from poison ivy. There are also agreements between Thomas Isaac Lenoir and physicians for treatment of his family. See also Series 5.1.1.
Arrangement: chronological.
Bills and receipts are for medical treatment and prescriptions for the Lenoir family.
Folder 315 |
1823-1890 and undated #00426, Subseries: "3.1.7.2. Medical Bills and Receipts, 1823-1890 and undated." Folder 315 |
Arrangement: chronological.
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Books of medical cures include home remedies for humans and livestock and recipes for agricultural pest and disease control, as well as a few enclosed recipes and a medical bill.
Folder 316 |
V-426/32: 1797-1837, 64 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.7.3. Books of Medical Cures, 1797-1837." Folder 316Medical cures and home remedies for "man and beast," as well as garden pest and disease control. There are also two recipes and a medical bill enclosed with the volume (68). |
Folder 317 |
V-426/33: circa 1806, 24 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.7.3. Books of Medical Cures, 1797-1837." Folder 317Book of medical cures. |
Arrangement: by type.
School records include university and secondary school bills, receipts, and statements for tuition and educational expenses; reports on conduct and academics; a report to the University of North Carolina board of trustees; notebooks from mathematics, history and other classes; and notebooks with essays, poetry, school accounts, and other writings for members of the Lenoir family, especially the children of Thomas Lenoir.
Arrangement: chronological.
Bills, receipts, and statements for tuition and educational expenses of members of the Lenoir family, especially the children of Thomas Lenoir.
Folder 318 |
School bills and receipts #00426, Subseries: "3.1.8.1. School Bills and Receipts, 1793-1901 and undated." Folder 318 |
Arrangement: chronological.
Reports on the conduct and educational progress of members of the Lenoir family at various academies, especially the Bingham School in Mebaneville, N.C., and a circular regarding an attack on the principal of the Hillsborough Academy in 1839.
Folder 319 |
Report cards and evaluations #00426, Subseries: "3.1.8.2. Report Cards and Evaluations, 1830-1892." Folder 319 |
Arrangement: chronological.
Included are a list of University of North Carolina trustees; reports of conduct, absence, and grades; University of North Carolina accounts; invitations to graduation exercises and concerts at various colleges; and drafts of documents relating to business of the University of North Carolina board of trustees.
Folder 320 |
UNC and other college material #00426, Subseries: "3.1.8.3. University of North Carolina and Other College Material, 1789-1883." Folder 320 |
Arrangement: chronological.
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School notebooks of the Lenoir family include several notebooks for mathematics, European and North American history, religion, philosophy, poetry, word definitions, French vocabulary, writing practice, and school accounts. There are also drafts of correspondence to family members and other writings.
Folder 321 |
V-426/34: 1768-1770, 153 pp. (missing pages 9-12). #00426, Subseries: "3.1.8.4. School Notebooks, 1768-1835 and undated." Folder 321William Lenoir's mathematics book containing formulae, notes, and exercises (1). |
Folder 322 |
V-426/35: ca. 1790, 24 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.8.4. School Notebooks, 1768-1835 and undated." Folder 322William Avery and Thomas Lenoir's mathematics book containing formulae, notes, and exercises (38). |
Folder 323 |
V-426/36: 1792-1802, 60 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.8.4. School Notebooks, 1768-1835 and undated." Folder 323Israel Pickens's mathematics book containing formulae, notes, and problems, originally belonging to James Lesley, who was killed in a duel in South Carolina, and enclosed page (64). |
Folder 324 |
V-426/37: 1810, 89 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.8.4. School Notebooks, 1768-1835 and undated." Folder 324Sally Joyce Lenoir's ciphering book containing formulae, notes, and problems (101). |
Folder 325 |
V-426/38: circa 1819, 34 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.8.4. School Notebooks, 1768-1835 and undated." Folder 325Louisa Lenoir's letterbook at Salem Academy, containing school notes and drafts of letters to her mother and cousin (120). |
Folder 326 |
V-426/39: circa 1820, 15 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.8.4. School Notebooks, 1768-1835 and undated." Folder 326History book containing descriptions of Revolutionary War battles and other episodes in United States history. |
Folder 327 |
V-426/40: 1822, 44 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.8.4. School Notebooks, 1768-1835 and undated." Folder 327William Avery Lenoir's mathematics book containing problems and formulae (122). |
Folder 328 |
V-426/41: 1829, 28 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.8.4. School Notebooks, 1768-1835 and undated." Folder 328Julia Pickens's Salem Academy commonplace book containing essays on devotion, duty, diligence, and education, and poetry on various philosophical matters (132). |
Folder 329 |
V-426/42: circa 1830, 40 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.8.4. School Notebooks, 1768-1835 and undated." Folder 329Julia Pickens's Salem Academy commonplace book containing copies of poetry (133). |
Folder 330 |
V-426/43: circa 1830, 16 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.8.4. School Notebooks, 1768-1835 and undated." Folder 330Julia Pickens's Salem Academy copy book for lettering and writing practice, with an enclosed writing practice sheet (141). |
Folder 331 |
V-426/44: circa 1830, 28 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.8.4. School Notebooks, 1768-1835 and undated." Folder 331Julia Pickens's Salem Academy history notebook, containing questions and answers in North American history, poetry, and French vocabulary (142). |
Folder 332 |
V-426/45: circa 1830, 13 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.8.4. School Notebooks, 1768-1835 and undated." Folder 332Selina Louise Lenoir's homemade almanac, containing aphorisms and notes, and an enclosed poem (144). |
Folder 333 |
V-426/46: 1831, 21 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.8.4. School Notebooks, 1768-1835 and undated." Folder 333Julia Pickens's Salem Academy history notebook containing ancient history, sketches, and mathematical exercises (134). |
Folder 334 |
V-426/47: 1834-1835, 10 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.8.4. School Notebooks, 1768-1835 and undated." Folder 334Julia Pickens's account book for money received from Thomas Lenoir and for expenses such as clothing and similar items (135). |
Folder 335 |
V-426/48: circa 1835, 16 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.8.4. School Notebooks, 1768-1835 and undated." Folder 335Mary Ann (Annie) Lenoir's poetry and copy book, with several torn pages (146). |
Folder 336 |
V-426/49: circa 1835, 41 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.8.4. School Notebooks, 1768-1835 and undated." Folder 336Selina Louise Lenoir's Salem Academy universal history book containing essays on European history (137). |
Folder 337 |
V-426/50: Undated, 13 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.8.4. School Notebooks, 1768-1835 and undated." Folder 337L. A. Lenoir's botany and history book containing notes on botanical classes and European history (138). |
Folder 338 |
V-426/51: Undated, 25 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.8.4. School Notebooks, 1768-1835 and undated." Folder 338L. Lenoir's Salem Academy book of essays on devotion, modesty, ridicule, and the muses, and copies of poetry (136). |
Folder 339 |
V-426/52: Undated, 16 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.8.4. School Notebooks, 1768-1835 and undated." Folder 339E. W. Graves's Salem Academy vocabulary book listing words and their definitions (143). |
Folder 340 |
V-426/53: Undated, 21 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.8.4. School Notebooks, 1768-1835 and undated." Folder 340Book of essays on family and domestic life (139). |
Folder 341 |
V-426/54: Undated, 26 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.8.4. School Notebooks, 1768-1835 and undated." Folder 341Commonplace book containing religious poetry and essays on piety, order, and obstinacy (140). |
Folder 342 |
V-426/55: Undated, 17 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.1.8.4. School Notebooks, 1768-1835 and undated." Folder 342Notes on British poets, the Turkish and Holy Roman Empires, a romantic story, and an enclosed page on the story of Christopher Columbus (145). |
Arrangement: by type.
Lenoir family legal and business records include the legal papers of Waightstill Avery; notes and memoranda of various legal cases in Ashe, Caldwell, Watauga, and Wilkes counties; wills and other papers relating to the settlement of the estates of members of the Lenoir family and related individuals; legal and business papers of members of the Lenoir family relating to their professional and business activities; promissory notes and volumes listing notes and debtors; Lenoir family tax records; bank statements; papers relating to the Linville Improvement Company and the Linville Building and Loan Association; Walter Waightstill Lenoir's work records for Linville, his grist and lumber mills, and other properties, consisting of ledgers listing employees and their accounts and records of days worked by employees; grist and lumber mill account books, statements, accounts, and memoranda of work done at the mills, and grain, flour, timber, and lumber used at the mills.
Arrangement: chronological.
The legal papers of Waightstill Avery include transcripts, memoranda, depositions, and other court documents for legal cases of the father-in-law of Thomas and William Ballard Lenoir.
Folder 343 |
Waightstill Avery legal papers #00426, Subseries: "3.2.1. Waightstill Avery Legal Papers, 1795-1830 and undated." Folder 343 |
Arrangement: chronological.
Notes on lawsuits, probably belonging to Walter Waightstill Lenoir, and including notes and memoranda of various legal cases in Ashe, Caldwell, Watauga, and Wilkes counties, describing particulars of the cases and applicable laws and court decisions.
Arrangement: chronological.
Estate papers include copies and typed transcriptions of the wills of members of the Lenoir family and related individuals, including Josiah Blanchard and John Norwood; and wills, accounts of distributions, receipts, and other papers relating to the settlement of the estates of William Lenoir, Selina Louisa Avery Lenoir, Sarah (Sade) Jones Lenoir, Thomas Lenoir, William Avery Lenoir, and Walter Waightstill Lenoir.
Arrangement: chronological.
Legal and business papers of members of the Lenoir family relating to their professional and business activities, and including debts, receipts, memoranda of notes, material relating to railroad and road building projects, and memoranda of legal cases in Burke County, N.C. See also Series 5.1.1. and 5.3.
Arrangement: chronological.
Legal and business papers of William, William Ballard, Thomas, William Avery, Thomas Isaac, Walter Waightstill, and Rufus Theodore Lenoir, including court orders, marriage licenses, obligations, Confederate bonds, memoranda of bank notes and currency exchanges, and documents and receipts for William Lenoir's legal practice and his activities as Clerk of Court of Wilkes County. Other items relate to estate sales, settlement of debts, railroad and road building projects, business investments and stockholders' concerns.
Court document and volume with memoranda and accounts for various legal cases in Burke County, N.C.
Folder 363 |
1804, 1809-1811 #00426, Subseries: "3.2.4.2. Memoranda of Legal Cases in Burke County, 1804, 1809-1811." Folder 363Includes volume 56 (V-426/56) |
Arrangement: chronological.
Promissory notes are from various individuals to members of the Lenoir family. Volumes list debtors and the amounts and due dates of their notes.
Arrangement: chronological.
Promissory notes are from various individuals to members of the Lenoir family.
Arrangement: chronological.
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William Lenoir's memoranda of promissory notes include lists of debtors and the amounts and due dates of their notes.
Arrangement: chronological.
Lenoir family tax records consist of inventories and abstracts of taxable property; receipts for state and county taxes; tax forms and returns; and a memorandum book listing William Avery Lenoir and Walter Waightstill Lenoir's land for taxation in Caldwell, Watauga, Mitchell, and Catawba counties, N.C.
Arrangement: chronological.
Tax records include inventories of taxable property, including land and slaves; receipts for state, county, and poll taxes; Confederate tax forms; United States Internal Revenue Service tax bills and tax returns; and property abstracts for state taxes for members of the Lenoir family and their properties in North Carolina and other states.
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An assessment of William Avery and Walter Waightstill Lenoir's lands in Caldwell, Watauga, Mitchell, and Catawba counties, N.C.
Folder 379 |
V-426/63: 1860-1882, 5 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.2.6.2. Assessment of William Avery Lenoir's Land, 1860-1882." Folder 379Assessment of lands (206). |
Arrangement: chronological.
Bank statements include balances, deposit slips, checks, and overdraft notices for several North Carolina banks, including the Bank of Lenoir and the First National Bank of Hickory, for William Avery Lenoir, Thomas Ballard Lenoir, and Rufus Theodore Lenoir.
Folder 380 |
1841-1898 #00426, Subseries: "3.2.7. Bank Statements, 1841-1909." Folder 380 |
Folder 381 |
1899-1909 #00426, Subseries: "3.2.7. Bank Statements, 1841-1909." Folder 381 |
Arrangement: chronological.
The Linville Improvement Company papers consist of the business papers of Walter Waightstill Lenoir and his nephew, Thomas Ballard Lenoir, relating to the Linville Improvement Company and the Linville Building and Loan Association. The papers include the bylaws of the Linville Building and Loan Association, receipts, agreements, indentures, forms, memoranda on the Linville Improvement Company, minutes of a stockholder meeting, and items relating to a suit brought against the company by Thomas Ballard Lenoir.
Folder 382 |
Linville Improvement Company papers #00426, Subseries: "3.2.8. Linville Improvement Company Papers, 1850-1895 and undated." Folder 382 |
Arrangement: chronological.
Walter Waightstill Lenoir's work records for the Linville Improvement Company, his grist and lumber mills, and other properties consist of ledgers listing employees and their accounts, including payments for work and living expenses; and records of days worked by employees.
Arrangement: chronological.
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Walter Waightstill Lenoir's work records for Linville consist of ledgers listing employees and their accounts, including payments for work and living expenses, and records of days worked by employees.
Arrangement: chronological.
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Walter Waightstill Lenoir's work records for his grist and lumber mills consist of ledgers listing employees and their accounts, including payments for work and living expenses, and records of days worked by employees.
Arrangement: by location.
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Walter Waightstill Lenoir's work records for his properties consist of ledgers listing employees and their accounts, including payments for work and living expenses, and records of days worked by employees. See also Series 5.1.6. and 5.3.
Arrangement: chronological.
Chiefly work records are those of Walter Waightstill Lenoir for his employees in Linville and other business concerns, including expenses for boarding hands, records of days worked and payments, and memoranda about work arrangements.
Folder 408 |
Work records, notes, and memoranda #00426, Subseries: "3.2.9.4. Work Records, Notes, and Memoranda, 1823, 1870-1889." Folder 408 |
Arrangement: chronological.
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Arrangement: chronological.
Grist and lumber mill papers include bills and receipts for lumber, timber, and mill equipment; memoranda of work done at the mills; statements of toll grain; accounts of grain and flour brought to the mills; lists of cull logs; and memoranda of framing and lumber for buildings.
Arrangement: by type.
Political papers of William Lenoir include descriptions of his troubles with his political opponent James Welborn and political notebooks containing notes on the North Carolina Constitutional Convention in Hillsborough and copies of the North Carolina constitution and other state political documents. Election papers consist of vote tallies, lists of names and party affiliations for various districts in North Carolina, and a few memoranda on the Western North Carolina Railroad Company, North Carolina laws, and land entries. County papers pertain to the establishment of county lines, road construction, and the control of wolves in the county, and include a list of subscribers to the Mecklenburg monument. See also vote tallies in volume 246 (Series 5.3.).
Arrangement: chronological.
Political papers are chiefly those of William Lenoir, and consist of affidavits regarding his character, Lenoir's complaints about his political opponent James Welborn, a petition to the North Carolina General Assembly regarding two criminals, and an undated list of names, presumably of legislators.
Folder 421 |
Political papers #00426, Subseries: "3.3.1. Political Papers, 1775-1815 and undated." Folder 421 |
Arrangement: chronological.
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William Lenoir's political books include a volume containing his notes on the North Carolina Constitutional Convention in Hillsborough, a sketch of the misconduct of his political opponent James Welborn, and a copy of the North Carolina constitution and other state political documents. See also Series 5.1.1.
Folder 422 |
V-426/98: circa 1788, 31 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.3.2. Political Volumes, 1788-1841." Folder 422William Lenoir's notes on the North Carolina Constitutional Convention in Hillsborough. |
Folder 423 |
V-426/99: 1795-1823, 41 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.3.2. Political Volumes, 1788-1841." Folder 423Sketch of James Welborn's conduct, with two enclosed memoranda of legal cases, one involving William Welborn (52A). |
Folder 424 |
V-426/100: circa 1841, 6 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.3.2. Political Volumes, 1788-1841." Folder 424North Carolina constitution and other documents (176). |
Arrangement: chronological.
Election papers consist of vote tallies for various districts in North Carolina.
Folder 425 |
Election papers #00426, Subseries: "3.3.3. Election Papers, 1825-1836." Folder 425 |
Arrangement: chronological.
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The election book contains lists of names by county and party affiliation in various districts in North Carolina, and a number of enclosures, including vote tallies, names of representatives, a subscription form for the Raleigh News and Observer, and notes on the Western North Carolina Railroad Company, North Carolina laws, and lands.
Folder 426 |
V-426/101: 1880-1882, 72 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.3.4. Election Book, 1880-1882." Folder 426List of names, counties, and parties in election, with 12 enclosed memoranda and clippings listing vote tallies, names of representatives, political notes, a subscription to the Raleigh News and Observer, and notes on the Western North Carolina Railroad and land entries (219). |
Arrangement: chronological.
Records of Caldwell, Burke, Haywood, Watauga, and Wilkes counties. They pertain to the establishment of county lines, road construction, and the control of wolves in the county, and include a list of subscribers to the Mecklenburg monument.
Arrangement: chronological.
Papers of Caldwell, Burke, Haywood, Watauga, and Wilkes counties. They pertain to the establishment of county lines, road construction, and the control of wolves in the county.
Folder 427 |
County papers #00426, Subseries: "3.3.5.1. County Papers, 1792-1882 and undated." Folder 427 |
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The Mecklenburg list gives the names of subscribers to the Mecklenburg monument, including Thomas Lenoir and his sons William Avery Lenoir and Thomas Isaac Lenoir.
Folder 428 |
V-426/102: 1846, 4 pp. #00426, Subseries: "3.3.5.2. Mecklenburg List, 1846." Folder 428List of subscribers, including Thomas Lenoir, William Avery Lenoir, and Thomas Isaac Lenoir, to the Mecklenburg monument (184). |
Arrangement: by type.
Land records include papers on William Lenoir's court cases involving the Moravian lands and the land speculation firm of Rousseau and Company, as well as two financial records of the company; legal documents for William and Walter Waightstill Lenoir's land disputes; grants, deeds, and indentures for the purchase and sale of land chiefly in North Carolina; volumes containing lists of land grants in Ashe and Wilkes counties, N.C.; surveys, maps, and memoranda concerning the Lenoir family's land holdings and transactions and their work surveying land for other individuals; land survey field notes; labor and leasing agreements for land; receipts for the purchase, sale, and registration of land; survey warrants; and volumes containing the value of lands in Watauga, Caldwell, and Catawba counties, N.C.
Arrangement: chronological.
Moravian lands court case records include indentures, affidavits, agreements, reports, memoranda and notes, and other court documents relating to William Lenoir's attempt to gain the lands of the Moravian United Brethren on the grounds that they had been held in trust by a loyalist and were thus forfeit.
Arrangement: chronological.
Indentures, affidavits, agreements, reports, memoranda and notes, and other court documents relate to William Lenoir's suit against the Moravian United Brethren.
Arrangement: chronological.
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Depositions and other documents relate to the Moravian lands court case.
Folder 436 |
V-426/103: 1799, 39 pp. #00426, Subseries: "4.1.2. Moravian Lands Court Case Books, 1799-1811." Folder 436Deposition on the Moravian lands court case. |
Folder 437 |
V-426/104: 1811, 36 pp. #00426, Subseries: "4.1.2. Moravian Lands Court Case Books, 1799-1811." Folder 437Moravian lands court case documents in two parts. |
Folder 438 |
V-426/105: 1811, 39 pp. #00426, Subseries: "4.1.2. Moravian Lands Court Case Books, 1799-1811." Folder 438Moravian lands court case document (105). |
Arrangement: chronological.
Indentures, affidavits, agreements, reports, memoranda and notes, and other court documents relating to William Lenoir's partnership in the land speculation firm Rousseau and Company, as well as two financial records of the company. See also Series 5.1.1.
Arrangement: chronological.
Indentures, affidavits, agreements, reports, memoranda, and other court documents relating to William Lenoir's partnership in the land speculation company Rousseau and Company.
Arrangement: chronological.
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Financial records of Rousseau and Company, a land speculation partnership of which William Lenoir was a member.
Folder 447 |
V-426/106: 1794-1796, 33 pp. #00426, Subseries: "4.2.2. Rousseau and Company Volumes, 1794-1802." Folder 447William Lenoir business account book for Rousseau and Company, including memoranda of financial transactions (49). |
Folder 448 |
V-426/107: 1795-1802, 25 pp. #00426, Subseries: "4.2.2. Rousseau and Company Volumes, 1794-1802." Folder 448Rousseau and Company auditor's check book (56). |
Arrangement: by case.
Indentures, affidavits, agreements, reports, memoranda, and other court documents relating to land disputes. In the earliest cases, William Lenoir seems to have been involved as a defendant or plaintiff; in later years, the cases were those of Walter Waightstill Lenoir, both as attorney and litigant. See also Series 5.1.1.
Arrangement: by type.
Land legal documents, surveys, and memoranda include grants, deeds, and indentures for the purchase and sale of land chiefly in North Carolina; volumes containing lists of land grants in Ashe and Wilkes counties, N.C.; surveys, maps, and memoranda concerning the Lenoir family's land holdings and transactions, and their work surveying land for other individuals; land survey field notes; labor and leasing agreements for land; receipts for the purchase, sale, and registration of land; survey warrants; and volumes containing the value of lands in Watauga, Caldwell, and Catawba counties, N.C. See also Series 5.1. and 5.3.
Arrangement: chronological.
Grants, deeds, and indentures are those of various members of the Lenoir family for the purchase and sale of land chiefly in North Carolina.
Arrangement: chronological.
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Land grant volumes contain lists of land grants in Ashe and Wilkes counties, N.C.
Arrangement: chronological.
Surveys, maps, and memoranda concern the Lenoir family's land holdings and transactions, and their work surveying land for other individuals.
Arrangement: chronological.
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Field notes are for surveys of land by members of the Lenoir family for others and for themselves. There are also memoranda on surveys, land grants, and purchases, and a few enclosed items relating to land registration or surveying.
Arrangement: chronological.
Labor and leasing agreements chiefly consist of agreements of individuals to rent land from William Lenoir and other members of the Lenoir family. There are also agreements for work arrangements between the Lenoirs and various individuals for construction, running the Fort Defiance grist mill, and plantation labor. Other agreements include William Lenoir's purchase of a convict labor, barter or work arrangements for rent, and sharecropping contracts.
Arrangement: by type.
Land purchase and sales records include receipts for the purchase and sale of land by members of the Lenoir family; receipts for registration of land with the county; survey warrants; and volumes containing the value of lands in Watauga, Caldwell, and Catawba counties, N.C.
Arrangement: chronological.
Receipts are for land purchases by members of the Lenoir family and for sales of land by them. There are also survey warrants and receipts for the registration of land with the county.
Arrangement: chronological.
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Land sales and valuation books contain memoranda of land sales and value in Watauga, Caldwell, and Catawba counties, N.C.
Folder 547 |
V-426/143: 1880s, 21 pp. #00426, Subseries: "4.4.6.2. Land Sales and Valuation Books, 1880-1897." Folder 547Memoranda of prices of lots in Watauga County. |
Folder 548 |
V-426/144: 1882-1892, 1897, 30 pp. #00426, Subseries: "4.4.6.2. Land Sales and Valuation Books, 1880-1897." Folder 548Thomas Ballard Lenoir's sale book of properties at Shull's Mills, Caldwell and Catawba counties (221). |
Arrangement: by type.
Financial and business volumes consist of the memorandum books, account books, and day books of William Lenoir, his sons Walter Raleigh Lenoir and Thomas Lenoir, and Thomas's sons William Avery Lenoir, Thomas Isaac Lenoir, and Walter Waightstill Lenoir. The books include records for household and plantation expenses, lumber and construction work, land transactions, labor, rents, and sales of crops and other items, as well as business, plantation, agricultural, and political memoranda. Additional memoranda for Walter Waightstill Lenoir are found in Series 6.3.2. Vol. 257 contains a few diary entries by William Avery Lenoir. Other plantation records are found in Series 3.
Arrangement: chronological.
Memorandum books belong to William Lenoir, his sons Walter Raleigh Lenoir and Thomas Lenoir, and Thomas's sons William Avery Lenoir, Thomas Isaac Lenoir, and Walter Waightstill Lenoir. Additional memoranda for Walter Waightstill Lenoir are found in Series 6.3.2.
Arrangement: chronological.
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William Lenoir's memorandum books contain notes and memoranda on horses, cattle, and other livestock; corn, wheat and other crops; rental agreements, land surveys, and records of deeds; political, legal, and court notes; militia activities; financial transactions; work records; and other household and plantation records. A few books contain records on William Lenoir's travel on business.
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The 1809 memorandum book for Walter Raleigh Lenoir contains household, business and plantation notes.
Folder 605 |
V-426/200: 1809, 18 pp. #00426, Subseries: "5.1.2. Walter Raleigh Lenoir Memorandum Book, 1809." Folder 605Memorandum book of Walter Raleigh Lenoir, containing lists of accounts and memoranda for business and plantation expenses, including promissory notes and horses (92). |
Arrangement: chronological.
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Thomas Lenoir's memorandum books contain notes on his business travels in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, as well as household and plantation records.
Arrangement: chronological.
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William Avery Lenoir's memorandum books contain memoranda and expenses for his business travel to Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, and Georgia, as well as memoranda and accounts for land, household, and plantation expenses. The books also contain extensive diary entries on his political, religious, and personal thoughts. A few diary entries can be found in Vol. 257 in Series 5.3.
Folder 624 |
V-426/218: November 1836-April 1838, 19 pp. #00426, Subseries: "5.1.4. William Avery Lenoir Memorandum Books, 1836-1861." Folder 624Memoranda and expenses for trips William Avery Lenoir took to Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, and Georgia (155). |
Folder 625 |
V-426/219: December 1838-March 1842, 80 pp. #00426, Subseries: "5.1.4. William Avery Lenoir Memorandum Books, 1836-1861." Folder 625William Avery Lenoir's memoranda and accounts for travel, land, household, and plantation expenses, including extensive diary entries on his political, religious, and personal thoughts (173). |
Folder 626 |
V-426/220: March 1842-August 1844, 78 pp. #00426, Subseries: "5.1.4. William Avery Lenoir Memorandum Books, 1836-1861." Folder 626William Avery Lenoir's memoranda and accounts for travel, land, household, and plantation expenses, including extensive diary entries on his political, religious, and personal thoughts (178). |
Folder 627 |
V-426/221: August 1844-October 1845, 57 pp. #00426, Subseries: "5.1.4. William Avery Lenoir Memorandum Books, 1836-1861." Folder 627William Avery Lenoir's memoranda and accounts for travel, land, household, and plantation expenses, including extensive diary entries on his political, religious, and personal thoughts (180). |
Folder 628 |
V-426/222: 1852, 12 pp. #00426, Subseries: "5.1.4. William Avery Lenoir Memorandum Books, 1836-1861." Folder 628William Avery Lenoir's memoranda and accounts for travel, with enclosures (189). |
Folder 629 |
V-426/223: May 1852-June 1854, 43 pp. #00426, Subseries: "5.1.4. William Avery Lenoir Memorandum Books, 1836-1861." Folder 629Avery Lenoir's memoranda and accounts for travel, land, household, and plantation expenses, including extensive diary entries on his political, religious, and personal thoughts (192). |
Folder 630 |
V-426/224: April 1855-August 1858, 80 pp. #00426, Subseries: "5.1.4. William Avery Lenoir Memorandum Books, 1836-1861." Folder 630William Avery Lenoir's memoranda and accounts for travel, land, household, and plantation expenses, including extensive diary entries on his political, religious, and personal thoughts (196). |
Folder 631 |
V-426/225: September 1858-January 1861, 40 pp. #00426, Subseries: "5.1.4. William Avery Lenoir Memorandum Books, 1836-1861." Folder 631William Avery Lenoir's memoranda and accounts for travel, land, household, and plantation expenses, including extensive diary entries on his political, religious, and personal thoughts, as well as enclosures (202). |
Folder 632 |
V-426/226: July 1859-August 1861, 55 pp. #00426, Subseries: "5.1.4. William Avery Lenoir Memorandum Books, 1836-1861." Folder 632William Avery Lenoir's memoranda and accounts for slaves, real estate, crops and orchard, and rents (203). |
Arrangement: chronological.
Processing Note: When a volume's number has changed as a result of reprocessing, the old number may be found in parentheses following the volume description.
Thomas Isaac Lenoir's memorandum books contain memoranda and expenses for his business travel in North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama, and Virginia, as well as memoranda and accounts for land, household, and plantation expenses.
Folder 633 |
V-426/227: 1842, 13 pp. #00426, Subseries: "5.1.5. Thomas Isaac Lenoir Memorandum Books, 1842-1868." Folder 633Memoranda, including expenses and mileage, for a trip to Alabama made by Thomas Isaac Lenoir and William Avery Lenoir (177). |
Folder 634 |
V-426/228: September 1844-January 1858, 24 pp. #00426, Subseries: "5.1.5. Thomas Isaac Lenoir Memorandum Books, 1842-1868." Folder 634Memoranda for a business trip made by Thomas Isaac Lenoir to sell cattle, as well as accounts of livestock, land, and crops and enclosures (183). |
Folder 635 |
V-426/229: January-February 1854, 33 pp. #00426, Subseries: "5.1.5. Thomas Isaac Lenoir Memorandum Books, 1842-1868." Folder 635Household and plantation memoranda, including expenses and mileage for a business trip to South Carolina made by Thomas Isaac Lenoir (194). |
Folder 636 |
V-426/230: May-June 1856, 17 pp. #00426, Subseries: "5.1.5. Thomas Isaac Lenoir Memorandum Books, 1842-1868." Folder 636Lenoir's household and plantation memoranda, as well as travel expenses for a trip to Virginia (198). |
Folder 637 |
V-426/231: circa 1856-1861, 20 pp. #00426, Subseries: "5.1.5. Thomas Isaac Lenoir Memorandum Books, 1842-1868." Folder 637Thomas Isaac Lenoir's household and plantation memoranda (199). |
Folder 638 |
V-426/232: June-September 1858, 22 pp. #00426, Subseries: "5.1.5. Thomas Isaac Lenoir Memorandum Books, 1842-1868." Folder 638Household and plantation memoranda of Thomas Isaac Lenoir, including surveys of mountains in western N.C., travel expenses for a trip to Spartanburg, medical cures, and lists of beef and pork for the year (201). |
Folder 639 |
V-426/233: 1860, 18 pp. #00426, Subseries: "5.1.5. Thomas Isaac Lenoir Memorandum Books, 1842-1868." Folder 639Business memoranda of Thomas Isaac Lenoir on the construction of the Pigeon River turnpike (204). |
Folder 640 |
V-426/234: 1866-1868, 56 pp. #00426, Subseries: "5.1.5. Thomas Isaac Lenoir Memorandum Books, 1842-1868." Folder 640Household and plantation accounts and memoranda of Thomas Isaac Lenoir, including notes on lumber, cattle, land, local gossip, and travels to Kentucky and other locations (212). |
Arrangement: chronological.
Processing Note: When a volume's number has changed as a result of reprocessing, the old number may be found in parentheses following the volume description.
Walter Waightstill Lenoir's memorandum books contain memoranda and expenses for his business travel in North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama, and Virginia, as well as memoranda and accounts for land, household, and plantation expenses. Some memoranda for 1862-1863 are found in Series 6.3.2. Vol. 292.
Folder 641 |
V-426/235: circa 1885, 18 pp. #00426, Subseries: "5.1.6. Walter Waightstill Lenoir Memorandum Books, circa 1885-1888." Folder 641Walter Waightstill Lenoir's Caldwell accounts, work records, and memoranda, including legal notes on land, and enclosures. |
Folder 642 |
V-426/236: 1888, 42 pp. #00426, Subseries: "5.1.6. Walter Waightstill Lenoir Memorandum Books, circa 1885-1888." Folder 642Scattered notes on Walter Waightstill Lenoir's accounts with various individuals, with enclosed notes on crops, livestock, and work records at Shull's Mill (223). |
Arrangement: chronological.
Processing Note: When a volume's number has changed as a result of reprocessing, the old number may be found in parentheses following the volume description.
The day books cover the daily business transactions of William Lenoir, Thomas Lenoir, and his sons William Avery Lenoir and Thomas Isaac Lenoir. The books include payments for rent, provisions, labor, and household and plantation expenses. A few of the volumes include agricultural notes or lists of accounts.
Arrangement: chronological.
Processing Note: When a volume's number has changed as a result of reprocessing, the old number may be found in parentheses following the volume description.
Account books of William Lenoir, Thomas Lenoir, William Avery Lenoir, and Walter Waightstill Lenoir, containing entries for plantation activities, lumber and construction, land transactions, labor, rents, and sales of crops and other items, as well as business, plantation, agricultural, and political memoranda. Vol. 257 contains a few diary entries by William Avery Lenoir. Vols. 248-249 are oversized volumes.
Arrangement: by type.
Government records include tax, census, military, postal, and court records, including official records for Wilkes County, N.C. Personal records for the Lenoir family can be found in other series. Personal tax records are found in Series 3.2.6. Records relating directly to William Lenoir's and William Ballard Lenoir's service as clerk of court are found in Series 3.2.4.1.
Arrangement: by type.
Tax records chiefly for Wilkes County, N.C., including memoranda for land, poll, and legal taxes; tax settlements with William and Walter Raleigh Lenoir as clerk of court of Wilkes County; lists of land and property taxes by household for the justices' returns; and tax assessments on slaves. Lenoir family personal tax records are found in Series 3.2.6. Other clerk of court records are found in Series 3.2.4.1. and Series 6.5.
Arrangement: chronological.
Tax papers include notes on land taxes, lists of taxes on court cases, memoranda for land and poll taxes in various military districts, accounts of property taxes in Wilkes County, list of fines for tax fees paid in Wilkes County, and tax settlements paid by William Lenoir and Walter Raleigh Lenoir in their capacity as clerk of court of Wilkes County. Other clerk of court records are found in Series 3.2.4.1. and Series 6.5. Lenoir family personal tax records are found in Series 3.2.6.
Arrangement: chronological.
Processing Note: When a volume's number has changed as a result of reprocessing, the old number may be found in parentheses following the volume description.
Tax volumes are lists of land and property taxes by household for the justices' returns for Wilkes County, N.C., as well as a volume of tax assessments on slaves in Wilkes County. Volumes 262-265 are oversized volumes.
Arrangement: chronological.
Census records consist of tax inventories, district listings for the census of 1840, Thomas Lenoir's 1840 census expenses and memoranda, and an instruction form for the 1840 census.
Arrangement: chronological.
Census papers include two inventories of two districts in 1777 and an 1840 tax assessment instruction form.
Folder 683 |
Census papers #00426, Subseries: "6.2.1. Census Papers, 1777-1840." Folder 683 |
Arrangement: chronological.
Processing Note: When a volume's number has changed as a result of reprocessing, the old number may be found in parentheses following the volume description.
Census records are district listings for the census of 1840 and include names of family heads and other household and agricultural information. There is also a scrapbook of census expenses and memoranda for Thomas Lenoir.
Arrangement: by type.
Military papers and volumes cover the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Civil War, and include muster rolls, inspection and regimental returns, substitute contracts, receipts for pay and plunder, certificates of commission or promotion, division orders, and memoranda on supplies, casualties, and other regimental business.
Arrangement: chronological.
Military papers primarily cover the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Civil War. Revolutionary War material includes muster rolls, contracts for substitutes, prisoner lists, memoranda of soldiers' services and wages, supply notes, receipts for plunder and pay, legal documents relating to various military matters, regimental returns, certificates of promotion and appointment, and division orders. For the War of 1812, there are muster rolls and inspection returns, commissions, depositions for war claims, commendations, various official forms, and circulars. Civil War materials include muster rolls, company supply lists, commissions, requisitions, ordinance reports, legal documents, enlistments, honorable discharges, an inventory of a dead soldier's belongings, and memoranda of wounded soldiers. In 1888, there is information on the military career of William Lenoir requested by Walter Waightstill Lenoir. Undated material consists of mostly Revolutionary War-era receipts, maps, and miliary forms.
Arrangement: chronological.
Processing Note: When a volume's number has changed as a result of reprocessing, the old number may be found in parentheses following the volume description.
Military volumes include accounts with soldiers and memoranda on supplies and equipment for Revolutionary War and Civil War regiments; a regimental return for the Tenth Brigade, Fifth Division of the North Carolina militia; and Walter Waightstill Lenoir's Civil War memoranda book for the Caldwell Riflemen, which also includes extensive household and plantation memoranda and work records.
Folder 706 |
V-426/289: 1779-1781, 74 pp. #00426, Subseries: "6.3.2. Military Volumes, 1779-1865." Folder 706Accounts with soldiers and memoranda on supplies and equipment (15). |
Folder 707 |
V-426/290: May 1809, 12 pp. #00426, Subseries: "6.3.2. Military Volumes, 1779-1865." Folder 707Return from the Tenth Brigade in the Fifth Division of the North Carolina Militia. |
Folder 708 |
V-426/291: April 1861-January 1862, 46 pp. #00426, Subseries: "6.3.2. Military Volumes, 1779-1865." Folder 708Thomas Isaac Lenoir's memoranda book containing lists of supplies and accounts for Company F, as well as enclosed accounts (207). |
Folder 709 |
V-426/292: 1862-1865, 22 pp. #00426, Subseries: "6.3.2. Military Volumes, 1779-1865." Folder 709Walter Waightstill Lenoir's memoranda book for his service in the Caldwell Riflemen, listing his expenses, supplies, and loans to members of the company. There is also a list of antebellum prices for lumber, household, and agricultural items, and memoranda for the management of family slaves, including lists of provisions, expected work production levels, and detailed instructions for weaving cloth. Enclosures include work records and household, plantation, livestock, and orchard memoranda for 1863-1865 (208). |
Folder 710 |
V-426/293: Undated, 3 pp. #00426, Subseries: "6.3.2. Military Volumes, 1779-1865." Folder 710List of articles furnished for the soldiers from Fort Defiance. |
Arrangement: by type.
Postal records are from the Fort Defiance, N.C., post office, where Thomas Lenoir, Thomas Isaac Lenoir, and Rufus Theodore Lenoir served as postmasters. The papers include financial and legal material, memoranda, and other items relating to the operation of the Fort Defiance post office. There are also many accounts of mail sent and received, and accounts of newspapers, periodicals, and pamphlets received at the Fort Defiance post office.
Arrangement: chronological.
Postal papers belong to the post office at Fort Defiance, where Thomas Lenoir, Thomas Isaac Lenoir, and Rufus Theodore Lenoir served as postmasters. The papers include receipts and bills for supplies and postal operations; postage and mailing memoranda; commissions for postmaster and the contracts and schedules of local carriers; forms recording mail, newspapers, and pamphlets received at the Fort Defiance post office; postmaster balances; auditors' reports; quarterly returns; and other items relating to the administration of the post office.
Arrangement: chronological.
Accounts of newspapers, pamphlets, and periodicals received at the Fort Defiance, N.C., post office.
Folder 715 |
Postal accounts #00426, Subseries: "6.4.2. Postal Accounts, 1841-1861." Folder 715 |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-426/8 |
Postal accounts #00426, Subseries: "6.4.2. Postal Accounts, 1841-1861." OPF-426/8 |
Accounts of mail sent from and received at the Fort Defiance, N.C., post office.
Folder 716 |
V-426/S-294: 1838-1858, 319 pp. #00426, Subseries: "6.4.3. Postal Book, 1839-1859." Folder 716 |
Arrangement: by type.
Court records include official court documents and records for various trials in the Wilkes County, N.C., County Court. Other records relating directly to William Lenoir's and William Ballard Lenoir's service as clerk of court are found in Series 3.2.4.1. and Series 6.1.1.
Arrangement: chronological.
Clerk of court papers are official court documents of the Wilkes County, N.C., County Court. Other records relating directly to William Lenoir's and William Ballard Lenoir's service as clerk of court are found in Series 3.2.4.1. and Series 6.1.1. Clerk of court papers include marriage licenses, petitions to the court, summons, bills for court costs, accounts of fines, fees, and forfeitures ordered by the court, accounts of fees received and paid, and a list of court justices.
Arrangement: chronological.
Processing Note: When a volume's number has changed as a result of reprocessing, the old number may be found in parentheses following the volume description.
Court volumes consist of the Wilkes County, N.C., court records for various trials, as well as some accounts of fees and expenses.
Arrangement: chronological.
Items P-426/6-12 are not included on the microfilm.
Reel M-426/1-34
M-426/1M-426/2M-426/3M-426/4M-426/5M-426/6M-426/7M-426/8M-426/9M-426/10M-426/11M-426/12M-426/13M-426/14M-426/15M-426/16M-426/17M-426/18M-426/19M-426/20M-426/21M-426/22M-426/23M-426/24M-426/25M-426/26M-426/27M-426/28M-426/29M-426/30M-426/31M-426/32M-426/33M-426/34 |
Microfilm #00426, Series: "Microfilm." Reel M-426/1-34
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Oversize volumes (SV-426/248; SV-426/249; SV-426/262; SV-426/263; SV-246/264; SV-246/265; SV-246/294)
Oversize paper (OPF-426/1-8)
Pictures (P-426/1-12).
Back to TopProcessed by: Roslyn Holdzkom, Elizabeth Pauk, Scott Philyaw, May 1994
Encoded by: Roslyn Holdzkom, March 2005
Revisions by: Nancy Kaiser, February 2006, January 2019, November 2020
This collection was processed with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access, Washington, D.C., 1993-1994.
Funding from the State Library of North Carolina supported the encoding of this finding aid.
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