Ruffin, Roulhac, and Hamilton Family, 1784-1951

Collection Number: 00643

Collection Title: Ruffin, Roulhac, and Hamilton Family, 1784-1951

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Size	7.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 3,300 items)
Abstract	Ruffin, Roulac, and Hamilton family members resided chiefly in eastern and central North Carolina, but also in Florida, Tennessee, and Alabama. Prominent among them were Thomas Ruffin (1787-1870), Anne M. Kirkland Ruffin (b. 1794), Joseph Blount Gregoire Roulhac (1795-1856), Catherine Ruffin Roulhac (b. 1810), and Daniel Heyward Hamilton, Jr. (b. 1838). The collection includes correspondence, financial and legal papers, account books, photographs, and other items, chiefly 1823-1890, relating to members of the Ruffin, Roulhac, and Hamilton families and their friends and associates. The papers relate to routine family matters and everyday life, and, to a lesser extent, to business matters, including the Ruffin plantations in North Carolina and Joseph Blount Gregoire Roulhac's career as a merchant in Raleigh, to the Civil War and Reconstruction, and to various public concerns. There are few items relating to Thomas Ruffin's legal and judicial career. The collection also contains photographs, carte-de-visite photographs, ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, tintypes, and sketches of members of the Ruffin and Roulhac families, friends, unidentified people, buildings, and Civil War naval engagements. There is also a mid-1850s daguerreotype of the sophomore class at the University of North Carolina, the earliest known image of a group of students at UNC.
Creator	Hamilton (Family : Hamilton, Daniel H., Jr. (Daniel Heyward), 1838-1908) Roulhac (Family : Raleigh, N.C.) Ruffin (Family : Hillsborough, N.C.)
Language	English

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Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], in the Ruffin, Roulhac, and Hamilton Family #643, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information: Received from Elisabeth R. Hamilton and J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, 1921-1952.

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Thomas Ruffin Papers (#641)

Expand/collapse Biographical Information

Thomas Ruffin (1787-1870), a lawyer who became chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, settled in Rockingham County in 1807. He was married to Anne Kirkland in 1809 and settled in Hillsborough, where her family's home, Ayr Mount, was located. Ruffin also became a leading planter who operated two plantations--one in Rockingham County and the Hermitage in Alamance County. Ruffin's oldest daughter, Catherine, married Joseph Blount Gregoire Roulhac (1795-1856), a merchant in Raleigh who frequently traveled to the Northeast and Middle Atlantic states on business. Catherine and Joseph had seven children, one of whom, Frances Gray, married Daniel Heyward Hamilton, Jr. (b. 1838), a Confederate soldier during the Civil War who owned a naval stores business in Madison County, Florida, in 1865-1866.

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This collection consists of family correspondence and other documentation of members of the Ruffin, Roulhac, and Hamilton families and their friends and associates, who lived chiefly in eastern and central North Carolina, but also in Florida, Tennessee, and Alabama. The papers relate to routine family matters and everyday life and, to a lesser extent to business matters, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and various public concerns.

Papers are basically those of the following persons and their immediate families: Thomas Ruffin, Anne M. Kirkland Ruffin, Joseph B.G. Roulhac, Catherine Ruffin Roulhac, Daniel Heyward Hamilton, Jr., and Frances Gray Roulhac Hamilton. There is little information on Thomas Ruffin's legal and judicial career.

The collection also contains photographs, carte-de-visite photographs, ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, tintypes, and sketches of members of the Ruffin and Roulhac families, friends, unidentified people, buildings, and Civil War naval engagements. There is a mid-1850s daguerreotype of the sophomore class at the University of North Carolina, the earliest known image of a group of students at UNC.

Contents list

Expand/collapse Series 1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated.

About 2,900 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Chiefly correspondence of the Roulhac family and members of the related Ruffin and Hamilton families, all of North Carolina. The early correspondence includes letters to and from Catherine Ruffin and her father, Thomas Ruffin, mostly in Hillsboro. They wrote of personal and family matters, and some political and business concerns. Other topics covered in the early letters include the weather; health and family news; news of marriages, births, and deaths of friends; plantation and farming news; and news of travel along the East Coast.

Beginning in late 1836, when Catherine Ruffin married Joseph B. G. Roulhac, there begins to appear a large number of letters between Catherine and Joseph. Matters covered in this correspondence include, in addition to those mentioned above, plantation news of crops, slaves, and sale of property; and accounts of Catherine and Joseph's children.

Other topics of interest in the correspondence of the period from the late 1830s through the 1850s include army and navy appropriations bills; duties on iron, salt, and coal; the Texas question; John C. Calhoun's possible appointment as Secretary of State; difficulties with slaves and fear of abolitionists; discussions of North Carolina state politics; the election, as opposed to appointment, of judges; the Whig party, the prospects of a Fillmore presidency, and growing sectionalism, in a letter from David Outlaw on 23 April 1852; and much family news, including Joseph's death in 1856, and the marriage of Fannie Roulhac and D.H. Hamilton, Jr., in 1859.

During and after the Civil War, the correspondence focuses on D. H. Hamilton, Jr., and his family. Topics of interest in the correspondence of this period include a 28 April 1860 letter from D. H. Hamilton to his son on financial problems; August 1860 letters on behalf of D. H. Hamilton, Jr., as he sought appointment to an instructorship at the State Seminary of Florida in Tallahassee; a 10 November 1860 letter from D. H. Hamilton to his son about growing sectional tension in South Carolina; D. H. Hamilton, Jr.'s mother's account of the ratification of the Ordinances of Secession in Charleston, 21 December 1860; D. H. Hamilton, Jr.'s appointment in May 1861 as a Major in the Third Regiment of North Carolina Volunteers; postwar mercantile records of D. H. Hamilton and Sons, some of which were transferred to Series 2; a 4 October 1863 letter from Jefferson Davis written to Hannah Gaston Manly of Hillsboro; and a 25 June 1868 letter from H. A. Chambers detailing the political situation in North Carolina.

Other correspondents in Series 1 include John Roulhac, A. D. Murphy, Henry Eustace McCulloh, Willie Blount, Paul Cameron, F. Nash, Duncan McRae, Anne Cameron, Tod R. Caldwell, Thomas Ruffin, Jr., Kenneth Rayner, Jason A. Bryan, Joseph Blount, D.L. Swain, C.H. Wiley, John Manly, Lewis Thompson, Will A. Graham, Joseph Blount Cheshire, Charles Manly, James Hamilton, Bishop Thomas Atkinson, Edward Stanly, General Pemberton, Lieutenant General Longstreet, James A. Seddon, William Cain, Frank G. Ruffin, Peter W. Hairston, Bishop T.B. Lyman, Charles S. Bryan, Walter H. Page, John W. Ellis, and L.P. Walker.

Folder 1	1784-1786; 1798; 1806-1816 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 1
Folder 2	1817-1822 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 2
Folder 3	1823 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 3
Folder 4	1824 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 4
Folder 5-6 Folder 5 Folder 6	1825 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 5-6
Folder 7	1826 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 7
Folder 8	1827 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 8
Folder 9	1828 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 9
Folder 10-11 Folder 10 Folder 11	1829 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 10-11
Folder 12	1830 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 12
Folder 13	1831 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 13
Folder 14-15 Folder 14 Folder 15	1832 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 14-15
Folder 16-17 Folder 16 Folder 17	1833 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 16-17
Folder 18-19 Folder 18 Folder 19	1834 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 18-19
Folder 20-21 Folder 20 Folder 21	1835 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 20-21
Folder 22-25 Folder 22 Folder 23 Folder 24 Folder 25	1836 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 22-25
Folder 26-27 Folder 26 Folder 27	1837 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 26-27
Folder 28-29 Folder 28 Folder 29	1838 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 28-29
Folder 30	1839 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 30
Folder 31-32 Folder 31 Folder 32	1840 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 31-32
Folder 33-34 Folder 33 Folder 34	1841 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 33-34
Folder 35-36 Folder 35 Folder 36	1842 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 35-36
Folder 37-38 Folder 37 Folder 38	1843 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 37-38
Folder 39-40 Folder 39 Folder 40	1844 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 39-40
Folder 41	1845 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 41
Folder 42-43 Folder 42 Folder 43	1846 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 42-43
Folder 44-45 Folder 44 Folder 45	1847 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 44-45
Folder 46-47 Folder 46 Folder 47	1848 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 46-47
Folder 48-49 Folder 48 Folder 49	1849 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 48-49
Folder 50	1850 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 50
Folder 51-52 Folder 51 Folder 52	1851 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 51-52
Folder 53-54 Folder 53 Folder 54	1852 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 53-54
Folder 55-56 Folder 55 Folder 56	1853 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 55-56
Folder 57-58 Folder 57 Folder 58	1854 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 57-58
Folder 59-62 Folder 59 Folder 60 Folder 61 Folder 62	1855 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 59-62
Folder 63-64 Folder 63 Folder 64	1856 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 63-64
Folder 65-67 Folder 65 Folder 66 Folder 67	1857 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 65-67
Folder 68-69 Folder 68 Folder 69	1858 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 68-69
Folder 70-71 Folder 70 Folder 71	1859 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 70-71
Folder 72-73 Folder 72 Folder 73	1860 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 72-73
Folder 74-78 Folder 74 Folder 75 Folder 76 Folder 77 Folder 78	1861 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 74-78
Folder 79-83 Folder 79 Folder 80 Folder 81 Folder 82 Folder 83	1862 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 79-83
Folder 84-87 Folder 84 Folder 85 Folder 86 Folder 87	1863 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 84-87
Folder 88-91 Folder 88 Folder 89 Folder 90 Folder 91	1864 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 88-91
Folder 92-95 Folder 92 Folder 93 Folder 94 Folder 95	1865 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 92-95
Folder 96-101 Folder 96 Folder 97 Folder 98 Folder 99 Folder 100 Folder 101	1866 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 96-101
Folder 102-106 Folder 102 Folder 103 Folder 104 Folder 105 Folder 106	1867 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 102-106
Folder 107-110 Folder 107 Folder 108 Folder 109 Folder 110	1868 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 107-110
Folder 111-112 Folder 111 Folder 112	1869 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 111-112
Folder 113-115 Folder 113 Folder 114 Folder 115	1870 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 113-115
Folder 116	1871-1873 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 116
Folder 117	1874-1876 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 117
Folder 118	1877-1879 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 118
Folder 119	1880-1883 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 119
Folder 120	1884-1889 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 120
Folder 121	1890-1893 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 121
Folder 122	1894-1899 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 122
Folder 123	1901;1903; 1908;1933;1951 #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 123
Folder 124-144 Folder 124 Folder 125 Folder 126 Folder 127 Folder 128 Folder 129 Folder 130 Folder 131 Folder 132 Folder 133 Folder 134 Folder 135 Folder 136 Folder 137 Folder 138 Folder 139 Folder 140 Folder 141 Folder 142 Folder 143 Folder 144	Undated #00643, Series: "1. Correspondence, 1784-1951 and undated." Folder 124-144

Expand/collapse Series 2. Financial and Legal Papers, 1787-1879 and undated.

About 150 items.

Indentures, wills, contracts, summonses, receipts, and accounting records that document many of the business activities of the families. Business records include those of Joseph B. G. Roulhac and D. H. Hamilton and Sons.

Folder 145-151.

1787-1879 and undated #00643, Series: "2. Financial and Legal Papers, 1787-1879 and undated." Folder 145-151.

Expand/collapse Series 3. Other Papers, 1812-1926 and undated.

About 150 items.

Expand/collapse Subseries 3.1. Schools.

Folder 152	University of North Carolina #00643, Subseries: "3.1. Schools." Folder 152
Folder 153	St. Mary's School #00643, Subseries: "3.1. Schools." Folder 153
Folder 154	Schools of Misses Nash and Miss Kollock #00643, Subseries: "3.1. Schools." Folder 154
Folder 155	University of the South #00643, Subseries: "3.1. Schools." Folder 155
Folder 156	Other Schools #00643, Subseries: "3.1. Schools." Folder 156

Expand/collapse Subseries 3.2. Church Items.

Folder 157

Pew prices at Christ Church, Raleigh, N.C., in 1851; notes regarding diocesen conventions of the Episcopal Church in North Carolina, 1818-1825, and the establishment of St. Matthew's Parish, Hillsborough, N.C.; and other items. #00643, Subseries: "3.2. Church Items." Folder 157

Expand/collapse Subseries 3.3. Military Items

Folder 158

Various Civil War era items, including broadsides, troop lists, orders, etc. #00643, Subseries: "3.3. Military Items" Folder 158

Expand/collapse Subseries 3.4. Business Items.

Folder 159

Prices current and other items. #00643, Subseries: "3.4. Business Items." Folder 159

Expand/collapse Subseries 3.5. Invitations.

Folder 160-161

Folder 160

Folder 161

Invitations sent to members of the Ruffin, Roulhac, and Hamilton families. Invitations are to parties, dances, weddings, and other social affairs. #00643, Subseries: "3.5. Invitations." Folder 160-161

Expand/collapse Subseries 3.6. Death Notices.

Folder 162

Obituaries, memorials, and funeral notices. #00643, Subseries: "3.6. Death Notices." Folder 162

Expand/collapse Subseries 3.7. Family Records.

Folder 163

Lists of births, marriages, and deaths, including pages from a family Bible, and other items. #00643, Subseries: "3.7. Family Records." Folder 163

Expand/collapse Subseries 3.8. Miscellaneous Items.

Folder 164-165

Folder 164

Folder 165

Miscellaneous printed and handwritten materials. Printed material consists of clippings, circular letters, advertisements, tickets, programs, membership certificates, and a greeting card. Handwritten materials include a map, recipes, poems, a list of expenses, and other items. #00643, Subseries: "3.8. Miscellaneous Items." Folder 164-165

Expand/collapse Series 4. Volumes, 1829-1917 and undated.

17 items.

Account books, journals, and diaries. Most of the merchandise ledgers and account books were kept by Joseph Blount Gregoire Roulhac. The volumes are roughly arranged by type, then chronological order. An "S" preceding a volume number indicates that the volume is oversized.

Expand/collapse Subseries 4.1. Plantation Records.

Folder 166

Volume S-1: Plantation record of James H. Ruffin, Marengo County, Alabama. Record was kept of cotton picked, clothing allowances to slaves, number of hogs killed, and other matters. 147 pages, 1841-1846 (formerly volume 3). #00643, Subseries: "4.1. Plantation Records." Folder 166

Expand/collapse Subseries 4.2. Merchant Records.

Folder 167	Volume S-2: Merchandise ledger of Joseph Blount Gregoire Roulhac, Raleigh, N.C. This volume also includes a small index. 694 pages, 1849-1855 (formerly volume 5). #00643, Subseries: "4.2. Merchant Records." Folder 167
Folder 168	Volume S-3: Merchandise ledger of Joseph Blount Gregoire Roulhac. 720 pages, 1854-1856 (formerly volume 6). #00643, Subseries: "4.2. Merchant Records." Folder 168
Folder 169	Volume S-4: Merchandise ledger of Joseph Blount Gregoire Roulhac. This volume also includes a small index. 404 pages, 1855-1857; 1879-1882 (formerly volume 7). #00643, Subseries: "4.2. Merchant Records." Folder 169
Folder 170	Volume 5: Day book of Joseph Blount Gregoire Roulhac. 39 pages, 1856-1858 (formerly volume 8). #00643, Subseries: "4.2. Merchant Records." Folder 170
Folder 171	Volume 6: Ledger showing wages and provisions and general merchandise accounts of D. H. Hamilton, Jr., Hamilton and Co. Naval Stores. Also some poems kept by Katherine Roulhac Hamilton. About 130 pages, 1865-1866 (formerly volume 12). #00643, Subseries: "4.2. Merchant Records." Folder 171
Folder 172	Volume 7: Letterpress copy book of Hamilton and Graham, Hillsboro, N.C. (A. W. Graham). The volume also includes a small index. 491 pages, 1874-1879 (formerly volume 13). #00643, Subseries: "4.2. Merchant Records." Folder 172
Folder 173	Volume 8: Account book, including accounts of Frances L. Roulhac, with the estate of J. B. Roulhac, the estate of Thomas Ruffin, and with James F. Norman in connection with shingles. 27 pages, 1861-1879 (formerly volume 17). #00643, Subseries: "4.2. Merchant Records." Folder 173

Expand/collapse Subseries 4.3. Diaries.

Folder 174	Volume 9: Diary of Joseph Blount Gregoire Roulhac on a journey from New York to Pittsburgh by stage and from Pittsburgh to New Orleans by water. 40 pages, 1829 (formerly volume 2). #00643, Subseries: "4.3. Diaries." Folder 174
Folder 175	Volume 10: Diary, author unknown. Also included in this volume are some minutes and other records of the Episcopal (Ladies) Society for March-April 1861. 92 pages, 7 July-10 Sept. 1856. #00643, Subseries: "4.3. Diaries." Folder 175
Folder 176	Volume 11: Pocket diary used for housekeeping expenses. 38 pages, 1864. #00643, Subseries: "4.3. Diaries." Folder 176

Expand/collapse Subseries 4.4. Women's Auxiliary Minutes.

Folder 177	Volume 12: Minutes of Woman's Auxiliary, St. Matthew's Parish, Hillsboro, N.C. 116 pages, 1886-1902 (formerly volume 15). #00643, Subseries: "4.4. Women's Auxiliary Minutes." Folder 177
Folder 178	Volume 13: Minutes of Woman's Auxiliary, St. Matthew's Parish, Hillsboro, N.C. 192 pages, 1902-1917 (formerly volume 16). #00643, Subseries: "4.4. Women's Auxiliary Minutes." Folder 178

Expand/collapse Subseries 4.5. Autograph Albums.

Folder 179	Volume 14: Autograph album of Frances G. Roulhac. This volume contains verses written to Fannie, as well as sketches. 174 pages, 1850-1853 (formerly volume 9). #00643, Subseries: "4.5. Autograph Albums." Folder 179
Folder 180	Volume 15: Autograph book of Elizabeth R. Hamilton, St. Mary's School, Raleigh, N.C. 53 pages, 1884-1885 (formerly volume 14). #00643, Subseries: "4.5. Autograph Albums." Folder 180

Expand/collapse Subseries 4.6. Miscellaneous.

Folder 181

Volume 16: Bible lecture book of Frances Lee Roulhac (1799-1880). Entries in this volume refer to Biblical passages. 25 pages, 1851 (formerly volume 4). #00643, Subseries: "4.6. Miscellaneous." Folder 181

Folder 182-185

Folder 182

Folder 183

Folder 184

Folder 185

Volume 17: "Manuscrit de Roulhac-Monthely," #00643, Subseries: "4.6. Miscellaneous." Folder 182-185

A history of the family descended from Gregoire de Roulhac, written in French and including notices on the American branch of the family. The volume includes copies of documents dating from 1568 and continuing over three centuries. The volume was compiled by several generations of the family. This typed compilation, in four parts (tomes), includes a supplement, notes, and an index added by L. G. Roulhac. 517 pages, undated (formerly volume 1).

Expand/collapse Series 5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated.

74 items.

Photographs, carte-de-visite photographs, ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, tintypes, and sketches of members of the Ruffin and Roulhac families, friends, unidentified people, buildings, and Civil War naval engagements. SF-P-643/11 is a mid-1850s daguerreotype of the sophomore class at the University of North Carolina, the earliest known image of a group of students at UNC. Unless otherwise indicated, each item is a photograph.

Image P-643/1	Thomas Ruffin #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/1
Image P-643/2	Photograph of portrait of Thomas Ruffin #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/2
Image P-643/3	Photograph of statue of Thomas Ruffin in old State Library Building, Raleigh, N.C. #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/3
Image P-643/4	Anne Kirkland Ruffin, wife of Thomas Ruffin #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/4
Image P-643/5	Sterling Ruffin, Hillsboro, N.C. #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/5
Image P-643/6	Allen J. Ruffin, Hillsboro, N.C. #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/6
Image P-643/7	John B. G. Roulhac #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/7
Image P-643/8	[Lizzie Manly?] #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/8
Image P-643/9	Reverend Benjamin S. McKenzie #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/9
Image P-643/1	0Reverend Moses A. Curtis #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/1
Image P-643/11-12 P-643/11 P-643/12	Lieutenant W.C. Faison #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/11-12
Image P-643/13	George W. Mordecai of Raleigh, N.C. #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/13
Image P-643/14	Charles M. Parks, Hillsboro, N.C. Carte-de-visite #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/14
Image P-643/15	Edwin A. Alderman #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/15
Image P-643/16-17 P-643/16 P-643/17	Paul C. Cameron #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/16-17
Image P-643/18	Charles C. Curtis #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/18
Image P-643/19	Edmund Strudwick of Hillsboro and Richmond #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/19
Image P-643/20	[George Papathakes?], 25 Aug. 1899 #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/20
Image P-643/21-22 P-643/21 P-643/22	William A. Graham #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/21-22
Image P-643/23	Reverend George Patterson #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/23
Image P-643/24-25 P-643/24 P-643/25	[W. M. Green?], University of the South, 8 Aug. 1886 #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/24-25
Image P-643/26	Fitzhugh Lee, 19 April 1898 #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/26
Image P-643/27	William Faucette, hack driver at Hillsborough, 1916, with his hack and horse #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/27
Image P-643/28-31 P-643/28 P-643/29 P-643/30 P-643/31	Matthew W. Ransom #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/28-31
Image P-643/32	Richmond M. Pearson #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/32
Image P-643/33	Reverend William E. Pell #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/33
Image P-643/34	Thomas Settle #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/34
Image P-643/35	William B. Rodman #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/35
Image P-643/36	Bartholomew F. Moore #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/36
Image P-643/37	Augustus S. Merrimon #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/37
Image P-643/38	Edwin G. Reade #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/38
Image P-643/39	Robert P. Dick #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/39
Image P-643/40	William Barker Cushing #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/40
Image P-643/41	Governor Jonathan Worth #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/41
Image P-643/42	Andrew Johnson #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/42
Image P-643/43	William A. Graham #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/43
Image P-643/44	Unidentified man. Carte-de-visite #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/44
Image P-643/45	Unidentified man. Carte-de-visite #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/45
Image P-643/46	Unidentified man. Carte-de-visite #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/46
Image P-643/47	Unidentified woman. Carte-de-visite #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/47
Image P-643/48	Unidentified man #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/48
Image P-643/49	Unidentified man #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/49
Image P-643/50	Unidentified man. Carte-de-visite #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/50
Image P-643/51	Unidentified man. Carte-de-visite #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/51
Image P-643/52	Silhouette of unidentified man #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/52
Image P-643/53	Penciled portrait of unidentified woman #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/53
Image P-643/54	Penciled portrait of unidentified man #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/54
Image P-643/55	Confederate reunion, 77 persons near railroad tracks, unidentified #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/55
Image P-643/56-57 P-643/56 P-643/57	St. Luke's Hall, University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/56-57
Image P-643/58	Episcopal Church and U.S. Court House and Post Office, New Bern, N.C. #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/58
Image P-643/59	Residence of Mrs. S. S. Nelson, New Bern, N.C. #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/59
Image P-643/60	House, now in the grounds of "Burnside," where Thomas Ruffin and his wife, Anne Kirkland, began housekeeping; Hillsboro, N.C. #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/60
Image P-643/61	Drawing of battle between the Sassacus and the Albemarle #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/61
Image P-643/62	Drawing of torpedoing of the Albemarle #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/62
Image P-643/63	Drawing of the Albemarle afloat and ready for action #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/63
Image P-643/64	Drawing of construction of the vessel [ Albemarle] #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/64
Image P-643/65	Drawing of the Albemarle afloat and ready for action, and the construction of the vessel #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/65
Image P-643/66-67 P-643/66 P-643/67	Drawing of capture of the Lillian #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/66-67
Image P-643/68	Drawing of naval engagement--Albemarle Sound, N.C., between the Rebel Ram Albemarle and Union vessels William Hull, Wyalusing, Sassacus, Mattabesett, and Miami #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/68
Image P-643/69	The Bennett House near Durham, N.C., where General Joseph E. Johnston's forces surrendered to General William T. Sherman #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/69
Image P-643/70	Drawing of the Confederate Prison at Salisbury, N.C. #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/70
Image P-643/71-72 P-643/71 P-643/72	Paper money, State of North Carolina issue, cica 1862 #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/71-72
Image P-643/73	Home made articleshat, bottle, and shoe #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/73
Image P-643/74	"Remember the 6" photostat of a Wilmington campaign warning by the Ku Klux Klan, 1898 #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." P-643/74
Special Format Image SF-P-643/1	Cased tintype of James Johnson Pettigrew #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." SF-P-643/1
Special Format Image SF-P-643/2	Ambrotype of unidentified child #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." SF-P-643/2
Special Format Image SF-P-643/3	Ambrotype of Sophie Manly Harden #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." SF-P-643/3
Special Format Image SF-P-643/4	Ambrotype of unidentified man #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." SF-P-643/4
Special Format Image SF-P-643/5	Tintype of unidentified man in Confederate uniform #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." SF-P-643/5 Includes a cut-out from a photograph of an unidentified woman's face.
Special Format Image SF-P-643/6	Daguerreotype of unidentified man #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." SF-P-643/6
Special Format Image SF-P-643/7	Daguerreotype of unidentified woman #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." SF-P-643/7
Special Format Image SF-P-643/8	Daguerreotype of unidentified man #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." SF-P-643/8
Special Format Image SF-P-643/9	Daguerreotype of unidentified man #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." SF-P-643/9
Special Format Image SF-P-643/10	Daguerreotype of unidentified man #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." SF-P-643/10
Special Format Image SF-P-643/11	"Soph Class Chapel Hillians" #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." SF-P-643/11 Daguerreotype of the sophomore class at the University of North Carolina, mid 1850s. This is the earliest known image of a group of students at UNC.
Special Format Image SF-P-643/12	Ambrotype of James Ruffin #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." SF-P-643/12
Special Format Image SF-P-643/13	Cased photograph of Sophie Manly Harden #00643, Series: "5. Pictures, 1862-1916 and undated." SF-P-643/13

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Collection Number: 00643 Collection Title: Ruffin, Roulhac, and Hamilton Family, 1784-1951

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Collection Number: 00643

Collection Title: Ruffin, Roulhac, and Hamilton Family, 1784-1951