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This collection was rehoused under the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.
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| Size | 24.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 10,000 items) |
| Abstract | The Haywood family was a politically and socially influential white family in Raleigh, N.C., with plantations dependent on enslaved labor in Edgecombe County, N.C., and in Greene County and Marengo County, Alabama. The collection includes correspondence, business papers, legal documents, medical records, account books, pictures, and other items documenting the lives of members of the Haywood family and their relatives, friends, associates, and people enslaved by them. Many items relate to the career of John Haywood (1755-1827) as North Carolina state treasurer, including much material on banking in the state and on state and national politics, 1790s-1820s. Other items relate to Haywood's plantation in Edgecombe County, N.C. There are also letters concerning students and various affairs at the University of North Carolina, 1790s-1880s. Personal correspondence especially documents activities of Eliza Williams Haywood (b. 1781), who was a member of the Raleigh Female Tract Society, her mother and sisters, and her children, circa 1800-1830. After 1830, many of the papers relate to the Alababam plantation and legal affairs of George Washington Haywood (1802-1890) and his cousin Alfred Williams (fl. 1825-1860). A number of papers and volumes relate to Edmund Burke Haywood (1825-1894), including records he kept of Confederate hospitals that he supervised in the Raleigh area. Other volumes include household accounts, plantation journals and accounts, merchant account books, guest registers for the Yarborough House hotel in Raleigh, recipe books, school notebooks, a volume, 1820s, of reflections on the social role of women and related matters, and "The Religion of the Bible and K W County Compared," by James Reid, 1769. plantation in Edgecombe County, N.C. undated materials? |
| Creator | Haywood, Ernest, 1860-1946. |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection, |
| Language | English |
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Biographical Information
This collection documents the lives of three generations of the white Haywood family of Raleigh, N.C., starting with John Haywood (1755-1827), state treasurer, 1787-1827, member of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina, 1789-1827, and the first mayor of Raleigh. He was the son of William and Charity Hare Haywood of Edgecombe County, N.C., and cousin of John Haywood (1762-1826), the writer and jurist. Among his brothers were Sherwood, Stephen, and William Henry. His first wife was Sarah Leigh, who died in 1791. In 1798 he married Eliza Eagles Asaph Williams (b. 1781), daughter of John Pugh Williams and Jane Davis Williams. Their children were Eliza Eagles, John Steele, George Washington, Fabius Julius, Alfred Moore, Thomas Burgess, Rebecca Jane, William Davie, Benjamin Rush, Frances Ann, Sarah Wool, and Edmund Burke. Eliza Williams Haywood was active in the Raleigh Female Tract Society. John Haywood served as state treasurer for forty years. After his death, a committee examined his accounts and found that $68,906.80 was missing. His estate reimbursed the state for $47,601.37, but was not able to cover the entire amount. Haywood was a very popular figure at the time of his death, and many citizens of the state believed he was innocent of any wrongdoing.
Several of John Haywood's children are also documented in this collection. His son George Washington Haywood (1802-1890) was state attorney for Wake County and owned a plantation in partnership with his brother, John Steele Haywood, in Greene County, Ala. His daughter Eliza Eagles Haywood (fl. 1818-1853) was a friend of Anna Hayes Johnson, daughter of William Johnson, United States Supreme Court justice from Charleston, S.C. Eliza apparently ran a school in the family home in the early 1840s. The youngest son, Edmund Burke Haywood (1825-1894), was a student at the University of North Carolina from 1843 through 1846, and received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1849. He enlisted in the Raleigh Light Infantry in 1861 and was elected its surgeon. He established the first military hospital in the state, and on 16 May 1861 he was appointed surgeon of the North Carolina state troops. He continued to serve in medical posts and, in August 1862, was commissioned a surgeon in the Confederate army. Also in 1862, he became acting medical director of the Department of North Carolina and was placed in charge of the Raleigh military hospitals. His headquarters was at Pettigrew Hospital, located at New Bern Avenue and Tarboro Road. Edmund Burke Haywood served as president of the Board of Directors of the State Insane Asylum from 1875 to 1889, and as chairman of the State Board of Public Charities. He married Lucy A. Williams in 1850 and lived in Raleigh in the Haywood home built by his father in the 1790s.
Alfred Williams (fl. 1825-1860) was a cousin and contemporary of the Haywood children. Williams operated a drugstore as part of the firm of Webb and Williams, which was later succeeded by the firm of Williams and Haywood, Inc. In 1833, this firm purchased land in Marengo County, Ala., and Alfred Williams moved there to operate the plantation. After his marriage in 1850, he spent much of each year in Raleigh and purchased 700 acres of land west of that city.
The third generation of Haywoods is represented in the collection chiefly by Ernest Haywood (1860-1946), son of Edmund Burke Haywood and Lucy Ann Williams Haywood. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1880 and was admitted to the bar in 1882. He practiced law in Raleigh and was one of the founders of the North Carolina Bar Association in 1885. He was interested in local history and published several articles in local newspapers.
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Scope and Content
This collection is arranged into five series: Correspondence and Related Loose Papers; Clippings and Lottery Tickets; Volumes; Pictures; and Microfilm. The correspondence is divided into four chronological groupings. The first of these covers the period 1752 to 1803. These papers primarily relate to John Haywood and include materials about his work as state treasurer of North Carolina, personal financial papers, correspondence concerning affairs at the University of North Carolina, and family and personal correspondence. The second chronological period covers 1804 to 1829, continuing the documentation of John Haywood's career. The activities of his children, however, become increasingly evident. The early personal papers in this series relate chiefly to the family of Eliza Eagles Asaph Williams, wife of John Haywood. The personal papers later in the series relate to members of John Haywood's immediate family, including letters from his sons when they were at school and from his oldest daughter, Eliza, when she was away from home visiting or traveling. The third period covers the years 1830 to 1860, in which George Washington Haywood, son of John Haywood, and his cousin Alfred Williams, are central to the family's narrative. George Washington Haywood was the state attorney for Wake County, N.C., and many of his papers in this series are thus legal items, either legal documents or correspondence relating to cases. Some of the papers also relate to the plantation that he owned in partnership with his brother John Steele Haywood in Greene County, Ala. The papers of Alfred Williams primarily relate to his plantation in Alabama, which he purchased with his firm, Williams and Haywood, Inc., in 1833. The fourth period covers the years 1861 to 1946, and includes many papers relating to Edmund Burke Haywood's activities as a surgeon in the Confederate army and his administration of several hospitals for troops in the Raleigh, N.C., area. After the Civil War, the loose papers consist mainly of accounts and business correspondence concerning the Williams and Haywood plantations in Alabama. Also included are many letters to E. Burke Haywood from his sons, Hubert Haywood and Ernest Haywood, attending various schools.
This collection also contains 118 volumes. The largest set consists of merchant account books. Included are account books for a number of business enterprises, including one for the firm of Williams & Haywood, Inc., which operated a drugstore. Another large group of volumes relates to the activities of Edmund Burke Haywood during the Civil War, when he was a surgeon for the Confederate forces and oversaw hospitals for troops in the Raleigh area. There are also a number of medical notebooks kept by him, in which he recorded some of his medical cases. Other volumes include household accounts, plantation journals and accounts (chiefly for the Alabama plantations), legal accounts, hotel guest registers for Yarborough House, bankbooks, account books for labor, recipe books, school notebooks of Ernest Haywood, two lettercopy books kept by Ernest Haywood, miscellaneous writings, and memoranda books. Other volumes concern James Newlon and members of the Yarborough family.
Also included in this collection are clippings, North Carolina lottery tickets, a pencil sketch of Pettigrew Hospital by S. A. Partridge, and photographs, including cartes-de-visite. Much of the collection is available on microfilm
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Series 1. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1752-1946.
Arrangement: chronological.
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Subseries 1.1. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1752-1803.
Arrangement: chronological.
Items relating to enslaved people are bills of sale, receipts, wills, and indentures. See folders 3, 12, 30.
Other materials primarily relate to John Haywood, early 1780s-1803, with a few earlier items of the Haywood family and Williams family. Included are correspondence and records pertaining to Haywood's work as state treasurer of North Carolina, personal financial papers, correspondence concerning affairs at the University of North Carolina, family and personal correspondence, and correspondence on state and national political affairs.
The treasury materials consist of records and correspondence with county, state, and national officials about a variety of affairs--administration of federal pensions, sale of public lands, collection of taxes, etc. Personal financial papers include bills for goods and services (including the renovation of Haywood's home beginning in 1798), and letters from persons attending to his plantation affairs in Edgecombe County, N.C., particularly John Davis (or Daves). Correspondence concerning University affairs includes letters from a number of persons including William R. Davie, David Ker, Richard Dobbs Spaight, John Gray Blount, A. D. Murphey, William E. Webb, Joseph Caldwell, Willie Jones, and Samuel McCorkle.
Personal and family correspondence consists of letters to and from Haywood's first wife, Sarah Leigh (Sally) Haywood, in 1790; members of the John Pugh Williams family (especially Eliza Eagles Williams ("Betsey"), whom Haywood married in 1798); members of the William Nelson family of Virginia; members of the Guion family of New Bern; members of the Chapman family of New Bern; and J. Leigh and his wife Poly of Tarborough. There are a few letters from other members of the Haywood family to John, and there is much personal material in the letters which relates primarily to state and national affairs.
Correspondents writing on North Carolina and national political affairs include governors, legislators, other state officials, North Carolina senators and representatives in Congress, and private citizens, among whom were Timothy Bloodworth, members of the Blount family (they wrote on Tennessee affairs also), Stephen Cabarrus, Josiah Collins Jr., William R. Davie, William Barry Grove, James Hogg, John Hogg, Samuel Johnston, Willie Jones, Nathaniel Macon, Abner Nash, Thomas Person, Richard Dobbs Spaight, John Steele, Montfort Stokes, Absalom Tatom, and James Turner.
An index to correspondents and others represented in this series is available in folder 1.
Note that folders 131b-131l contain undated items that may date from the period covered by this series.
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Name index to Series 1 #01290, Subseries: "1.1. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1752-1803." Folder 1a |
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Correspondence, 1752-1785 #01290, Subseries: "1.1. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1752-1803." Folder 1A few indentures for sales of land in Johnston, Orange, and Wake counties, N.C., and legal papers covering transactions by the Earl of Granville, William Churton, John Smith, Sirack [?] Cater, Zachariah Cater, and Lewis Pool. Miscellaneous papers relating to several persons: certificate of marriage of John Pugh Williams to Jane Davis of Brunswick County, N.C., 2 January 1781, and a list of the Williams's children with birth dates; a few records of the Entry Officer and Register of Washington and Greene counties; a land office military warrant in Virginia for Peter James; a personal letter from Thomas Blount to John Haywood; a legal document for the conveyance of land from Nathan Hooker of Tyrrell County, N. C., to Lewis Bailey of Edgecombe County; a bill for merchandise purchased by John Haywood; and Haywood's bond as a commissioner to purchase tobacco for the state of North Carolina at Tarborough. Includes oversize papers
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Folder 2-3
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Correspondence, 1786-1789 #01290, Subseries: "1.1. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1752-1803." Folder 2-3Folder 2: 1786-1787 Folder 3: 1788-1789 Slavery era records include:
Other materials are chiefly financial records and correspondence of John Haywood for his work as a commissioner in Tarborough to purchase tobacco for the state of North Carolina and as state treasurer of North Carolina. Also included are items relating to Haywood's personal financial affairs, such as bills for goods and services. A few items pertain to John Pugh Williams: letters of 1787 from Williams Cutlar in regard to turpentine business and a bill of 1789 from a carpenter to Williams. |
Folder 4-5
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Correspondence, 1790 #01290, Subseries: "1.1. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1752-1803." Folder 4-5Folder 4: January-August 1790 Folder 5: September-December 1790 Letters, 29 January, 2 February, and 8, 15, and 22 May from Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton and Secretary of War Henry Knox concerning pensions to be paid to veterans of the Revolution; letters, November and December, from Haywood to his wife Sally written while he was attending the legislature in Fayetteville, telling of activities for the next year and personal news of various individuals, including love affairs, etc. |
Folder 6-7
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Correspondence, 1791 #01290, Subseries: "1.1. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1752-1803." Folder 6-7Folder 6: January-June 1791 Folder 7: July-December 1791 Letters to Haywood concerning the death of his wife Sally; letter, 30 June, from Alexander Hamilton on pensions for invalids; letters dealing with Haywood's business with the United States Treasury Department; letter, 5 December, from John Steele, concerning the activities of Congress in Philadelphia. XOP-1290/5: Indenture, William Shepperd to John Haywood, 21 January 1790. |
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Correspondence, 1792 #01290, Subseries: "1.1. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1752-1803." Folder 8Several official reports concerning Haywood's records as state treasurer, reports from county officials, and more items pertaining to dealings with the United States Treasury Department; copy of the deed, 5 April, made between Joel Lane and Alexander Martin, governor of North Carolina, for 1000 acres of land in Wake County for a state capital; letter, 30 August, from William Nelson to Robert Saunders, Williamsburg, Va., concerning legal cases and the sending of a key to a bookcase at Westover and mentioning Mr. Marshall, Mr. E. Randolph, Mr. William Munford, and Mr. C. Byrd, and Mr. Wythe; several letters from the Guion family in New Bern telling of the spread of smallpox there and the inoculation given for it. |
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Correspondence, 1793 #01290, Subseries: "1.1. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1752-1803." Folder 9Letter from A. C. Thomas in Philadelphia including mention of the French war with England, Congress's action in relation to assumption of state debts, his living quarters in Philadelphia, accusations against him in relation to soldiers' claims which he had purchased, and suggestions to newly elected North Carolina Comptroller Craven for his dealings with the federal government on payments to revolutionary officers and soldiers. |
Folder 10-11
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Correspondence, 1794 #01290, Subseries: "1.1. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1752-1803." Folder 10-11Folder 10: January-July 1794 Folder 11: October-December 1794 Letter, 24 April, from William Barry Grove, United States representative from North Carolina, discussing the depredations of England on the United States, Jay's Treaty with England, and Haywood's interest in buying an encyclopedia; correspondence, April-July, between Haywood and Daniel Anderson of Petersburg and M. [?] Witherspoon about the sale of certificates [for land ?] for "ready cash"; letter, 27 February, from David Ker, asking instructions relative to University of North Carolina affairs; letter, 29 December, from Isaac Lee Guion at school at Princeton College, telling of his work, school societies, and the library. |
Folder 12-13
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Correspondence, 1795 #01290, Subseries: "1.1. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1752-1803." Folder 12-13Folder 12: January-May 1795 Folder 13: June-December 1795 Slavery era records include: March 6, a will in which Eliza Kennon bequeathed three enslaved people, Dick, Lucy, and Lucy's son David, to her son William Kennon; an enslaved girl Hannah, who was the daughter of Dianna, to her granddaughter Elizabeth Warren Kennon; an enslaved boy named Ben to her grandson William Kennon Harrison; an enslaved boy named Patrick to her grandson William Kennon (son of Richard Kennon); an enslaved boy named Jim to her grandson John Woodson Kennon; Jane and her children to the children (except William Kennon) of her son Richard Kennon; Dianna and her children to the children (except Elizabeth Warren Kennon) of her son Charles Kennon; and Ceasar and Fanny were bequeathed to John Kennon (folder 12). Other materials include a letter, 6 November, from William R. Davie discussing the plans for a new building at the University and the addition of teachers; continuation of letters form Isaac Lee Guion telling of his life at Princeton; letters, 7 and 20 March, from Hugh Williamson concerning his desire for copies of a letter from General Greene and some correspondence of Governor Caswell which were among the officials papers of North Carolina; correspondence, 14 and 20 June, between Haywood and John G. Blount concerning the possibility of the setting up of a mercantile establishment at UNC by Haywood's brother and a Mr. Hardin; letter, 15 September, from Willie Blount, Knoxville, Tenn., discussing relations between the Creek and Chickasaw Indians, immigration to Tennessee from the Atlantic states, and the building of roads; letter, 16 September, from Thomas Blount in Knoxville, concerning a merchant in Tennessee who was coming to Raleigh to set up a business; will of James Jordan, 21 December; letter, 29 December, from William R. Davie concerning publicizing trouble with the president of the University, and personal affairs. |
Folder 14-16
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Correspondence, 1796 #01290, Subseries: "1.1. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1752-1803." Folder 14-16Folder 14: January-March 1796 Folder 15: April-June 1796 Folder 16: July-December 1796 Continuation of letters from Isaac Lee Guion at Princeton; letters from Willis Alston, Rep. Absalom Tatom, William R. Davie, Rep. James Gillespie, and John Steele (comptroller of the National Treasury) about national political affairs and foreign affairs, particularly the treaties with Spain and England and the French war, the refusal of the House to adjourn so as to allow members to congratulate the president on his birthday (letter of 28 February), plans for building the new "Federal City" (letter of 28 February), disposal of the lands in the Northwest territory, and the presidential election; letters from Richard Dobbs Spaight and William R. Davie on affairs at UNC, including plans for a new building; letter, 13 June, from Samuel Hinton, a student at the University, about life there; letters, 12 February, 1 April, and 23 May from William Blount and Thomas Blount about Tennessee's new constitution and John Gray Blount's responsibility for a certain sum of money for entry of lands; letter, 21 March, from Hugh Williamson to Thomas Blount asking for a copy of a document relating to North Carolina in the Revolution. |
Folder 17-19
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Correspondence, 1797 #01290, Subseries: "1.1. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1752-1803." Folder 17-19Folder 17: January-July 1797 Folder 18: August-October 1797 Folder 19: November-December 1797 Letters from William R. Davie and Samuel Hopkins about University affairs; letters, 8 July and 10 December, commenting on the French war and other foreign policy matters. |
Folder 20-23
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Correspondence, 1798 #01290, Subseries: "1.1. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1752-1803." Folder 20-23Folder 20: January-May 1798 Folder 21: June-July 1798 Folder 22: August-October 1798 Folder 23: November-December 1798 Letters to Haywood from friends concerning his marriage to Eliza Eagles Williams; letters from Haywood to his wife, including one of 13 June in which he tells of serving dinner to the governor and his council; letters, 27 November and 18 December, commenting on the French war and other foreign policy matters; letters to Eliza (Betsy) from her mother. |
Folder 24-27
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Correspondence, 1799 #01290, Subseries: "1.1. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1752-1803." Folder 24-27Folder 24: January-April 1799 Folder 25: May-September 1799 Folder 26: October-November 1799 Folder 27: December 1799 Letters from various persons about affairs at the University, including the hiring of new teachers, provisions for the housing and feeding of students, constructing a new building, etc.; letters from Haywood to his wife, who was visiting her parents, discussing the renovation of their home, affairs on their plantation, and activities in Raleigh; letters, 6 January, 15 and 23 May, and September-November, from Richard Dobbs Spaight and John Steele about the activities of Congress; letter, 21 October, from William R. Davie about United States foreign affairs; appointment, 6 January, of Sherwood Haywood as Commissioner of Loans for North Carolina. |
Folder 28-30
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Correspondence, 1800 #01290, Subseries: "1.1. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1752-1803." Folder 28-30Folder 28: January-March 1800 Folder 29: April-May 1800 Folder 30: June-December 1800 Slavery era records include:
Other materials include letters from David Stone, John Steele, W. H. Hill, Nathaniel Macon, Benjamin Williams, and Richard Dobbs Spaight about actions in Congress, relations with France, and the presidential elections; letter, 16 February, from William R. Davie concerning his mission to France; letters from David Stone, Hugh Williamson, Jos. Ross, Joseph Caldwell, P. Henderson, and Thos. [?] Rogers about University affairs--hiring a new president and new teachers, payment of board by students, arrangements for a new building, etc.; letter, 26 November, to Haywood from John Davis (or Daves) about digging up family coffins (possibly of Haywood's wife Sally, who died in 1791 and his son Lee, who died in 1795) and making better arrangements for them in keeping with Haywood's orders; letter, 1 December, from "W N" in medical school in Philadelphia to Miss S. Nelson, Yorkstown, Va. |
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Correspondence, Undated before 1800 #01290, Subseries: "1.1. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1752-1803." Folder 31 |
Folder 32-34
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Correspondence, 1801 #01290, Subseries: "1.1. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1752-1803." Folder 32-34Folder 32: January-April 1801 Folder 33: May-October 1801 Folder 34: November-December 1801 Letters concerning national political affairs, including the election of Jefferson as President, from David Stone, Richard Dobbs Spaight, James Turner, and John Steele; description, 17 April, of Masonic ceremonies in New Bern, N.C.; letters from William R. Davie, Henry Toole, and Isaac Guion about University affairs; correspondence, October-December, between Haywood and his wife while she was visiting her family in Wilmington, including letters from the former about the many people coming to Raleigh for the meeting of the legislature; letter, 2 January, from W. Nelson, Philadelphia, to Miss S. [?] Nelson. |
Folder 35-36
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Correspondence, 1802 #01290, Subseries: "1.1. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1752-1803." Folder 35-36Folder 35: January-August 1802 Folder 36: September-December 1802 Correspondence and records, June-December, pertaining to the UNC lottery; printed copy, 15 December, of rules for the University sent to Haywood by William Polk, president of the Board of Trustees; letter, 24 December, from John Steele concerning his resignation as comptroller of the United States Treasury, with copies of his correspondence with Albert Gallatin and Thomas Jefferson attached; resolutions, 24 November, of the Committee of Finance of the North Carolina Senate relating to an inquiry into "each branch of the revenue of this State"; letters, 9 and 28 February and 17 May, from W. Nelson, Philadelphia, to Miss Susan Nelson, York Town, Va.; letters, 20 April and 18 November, from John Haywood and William Hall, pertaining to the latter's marriage to Ferebee Williams, sister of Eliza Eagles Asaph Williams Haywood. |
Folder 37-40
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Correspondence, 1803 #01290, Subseries: "1.1. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1752-1803." Folder 37-40Folder 37: January-May 1803 Folder 38: June-September 1803 Folder 39: October-November 1803 Folder 40: December 1803 Letters from Robert Williams, 20 June, and William R. Davie, 2 September, and a letter of 11 July with signature missing pertaining to state politics; letters from John Steele, 27 October 27 and 14 December, Thomas Wynns, 12 December, and David Stone, 8 December, on national affairs, including possible abolition of the Loan Offices, passage of the constitutional amendment pertaining to the election of president and vice president, and the purchase of the Louisiana Territory by the United States; letter, 7 October, from Gavin Alves to Haywood on matters pertaining to the steward at the University and his financial affairs; letter, 2 August, from Willie Blount, Knoxville, Tenn., concerning personal financial matters, the death of his sister and his care for her children, and other personal matters; several letters pertaining to the sale by Haywood of his lands in New Bern, particularly from Josiah Collins Jr., 30 July, and Samuel Simpson, 3 and 17 December, who were potential purchasers; several family letters, chiefly correspondence between Eliza Eagles Asaph Williams Haywood (Betsy) and her mother (Jane Williams) and sister Rebecca Christina Williams chiefly concerning family and personal affairs--birth of a son to Betsy, sending new clothes to her, the death of her father, etc.--including one long letter from Eliza Eagles Asaph Williams Haywood concerning the great amount of work involved in entertaining all of the members of the General Assembly whom her husband invited home for dinner. |
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Subseries 1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829.
Arrangement: chronological.
Many of the early personal papers in this Series relate to the affairs of Eliza Eagles Asaph Williams Haywood's mother, Jane Davis Williams, and to Eliza Eagles Asaph Williams Haywood's sisters, Ferebee Williams Hall (married to William Hall) and Rebecca Williams Moore (married to Alfred Moore). Correspondence of Jane Davis Williams, her daughters, and their husbands, makes up a large part of the personal papers. Ferebee Williams Hall died in 1809 and Rebecca Williams Moore in 1816; the death of Jane Davis Williams is not recorded but probably occurred in 1817 or 1818. Her letters and those of her daughters are greatly concerned with the birth and care of children, illness and its treatment, clothing, and household activities. Scattered letters to her and to the Haywoods from William Hall and Alfred Moore continue after the death of their wives. The Halls and the Moores lived in Brunswick County, N.C.; the Moores spent summers at Moorefield near Hillsboro in Orange County, N.C. Jane Davis Williams was generally at the home of one of her daughters.
After the death of Jane Davis Williams there is less intimate family material except for correspondence among the members of John Haywood's immediate family, written when the boys were at school or the older daughter, Eliza (sometimes called Betsy/Betsey) was away from home visiting or traveling. There are occasional references to Haywood's brothers and sisters and members of their families, but the correspondence about them and with them is scattered. The older Haywood boys studied at Chapel Hill, first at the preparatory school and later at the University, beginning in 1816. George Washington Haywood graduated in 1821, Fabius Julius Haywood in 1822, and Thomas Burgess Haywood in 1823. John Steele Haywood and Alfred Moore Haywood were students but did not graduate. Letters from John Haywood to his sons during this period give family news and news of Raleigh. Fabius studied medicine for about a year in Raleigh, and then entered the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania. Correspondence between him and members of his family gives Raleigh news on one side, and on the other information on medical study and the life of a medical student in Philadelphia.
Haywood's position as state treasurer meant that he had a great deal of correspondence with bankers of the state and there is material in his papers on the North Carolina State Bank, the Bank of Cape Fear, and the Bank of New Bern, and also lesser information on the Branch Bank of the United States at Fayetteville.
Haywood's papers also relate to other aspects of his work as treasurer, including sheriff's settlements, state-owned securities, land sales, and payment of salaries of public officials.
Although Haywood usually was not directly involved in political activity, his correspondents frequently were, and scattered through this series are comments on the political news and events of the state and nation.
Personal business papers of Haywood relate to his household bills, loans he made to individuals (whether from personal or state funds is not always clear), and his plantation in Edgecombe County, which was under the direct management of an overseer supervised by a friend in Tarboro who also marketed Haywood's crops. Jesse Holland, an overseer, wrote to Haywood in 1808; Joseph J. Sumner supervised the place for a time, and beginning about 1810 there are frequent letters from Theodore Parker about it.
Eliza Eagles Asaph Williams Haywood was active in the Raleigh Female Tract Society, and there are scattered references to affairs of Christ Church (Episcopal) in Raleigh.
In addition to letters to and from the Haywood boys at the University of North Carolina, there are other items relating to University affairs. Haywood was a prominent trustee, and at times was a member of the land committee and the committee on appointments. Scattered through this series are materials on the University, including many references to Tennessee lands.
Eliza Eagles Haywood (Betsy) was referred to as a child in the early papers, and about 1818 her correspondence becomes a significant factor in the papers. It is especially prominent in 1822, when she was visiting in Washington, D.C., and in the months which followed when she corresponded with Anna Hayes Johnson, daughter of William Johnson, United States Supreme Court justice, of Charleston, S.C., and with Sarah Moulton Wool (married to John Ellis Wool). Anna Hayes Johnson married Romulus M. Saunders in 1823.
Soon after the death of John Haywood in November 1827, a shortage was discovered in the state treasury. Friends and members of the family made efforts to account for it in a manner favorable to Haywood, who had been one of the most popular men of the state, and the family tried to make up the deficit from his personal estate. There are references to this affair in the papers, but there is no detailed information.
The later papers include accounts and correspondence of the drug firm of Webb and Williams, which was succeeded about February 1828 by Williams and Haywood (a partnership of Alfred Williams and Fabius Haywood), and also papers pertaining to the legal business of George Washington Haywood.
The papers in this series are so extensive and so varied that a chronological analysis is impractical. Also see the volumes in Subseries 6.1, 6.2, 6.3.1, 6.10, 6.12, and 6.13, dating from the period covered by this Series.
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Name index to Series 2 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 41a |
Folder 41-42
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Correspondence, 1804 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 41-42Folder 41: January-June 1804 Folder 42: July-December 1804 |
Folder 43-45
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Correspondence, 1805 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 43-45Folder 43: January-March 1805 Folder 44: April-September 1805 Folder 45: October-December 1805 |
Folder 46-47
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Correspondence, 1806 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 46-47Folder 46: January-July 1806 Folder 47: August-December 1806 |
Folder 48-49
Folder 48Folder 49 |
Correspondence, 1807 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 48-49Folder 48: January-May 1807 Folder 49: June-December 1807 |
Folder 50-53
Folder 50Folder 51Folder 52Folder 53 |
Correspondence, 1808 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 50-53Folder 50: January-March 1808 Folder 51: April-July 1808 Folder 52: August-October 1808 Folder 53: November-December 1808 |
Folder 54-56
Folder 54Folder 55Folder 56 |
Correspondence, 1809 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 54-56Folder 54: January-March 1809 Folder 55: April-July 1809 Folder 56: August-December 1809 |
Folder 57-61
Folder 57Folder 58Folder 59Folder 60Folder 61 |
Correspondence, 1810 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 57-61Folder 57: January-March 1810 Folder 58: April-July 1810 Folder 59: August 1810 Folder 60: September 1810 Folder 61: October-December 1810 |
Folder 62-65
Folder 62Folder 63Folder 64Folder 65 |
Correspondence, 1811 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 62-65Folder 62: January-March 1811 Folder 63: April-August 1811 Folder 64: September-October 1811 Folder 65: November-December 1811 |
Folder 66-68
Folder 66Folder 67Folder 68 |
Correspondence, 1812 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 66-68Folder 66: January-April 1812 Folder 67: May-August 1812 Folder 68: September-December 1812 |
Folder 69-70
Folder 69Folder 70 |
Correspondence, 1813 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 69-70Folder 69: January-August 1813 Folder 70: September-December 1813 |
Folder 71-73
Folder 71Folder 72Folder 73 |
Correspondence, 1814 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 71-73Folder 71: January-May 1814 Folder 72: June-October 1814 Folder 73: November-December 1814 |
Folder 74-76
Folder 74Folder 75Folder 76 |
Correspondence, 1815 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 74-76Folder 74: January-April 1815 Folder 75: May-August 1815 Folder 76: September-December 1815 |
Folder 77-79
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Correspondence, 1816 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 77-79Folder 77: January-May 1816 Folder 78: June-September 1816 Folder 79: October-December 1816 |
Folder 80-82
Folder 80Folder 81Folder 82 |
Correspondence, 1817 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 80-82Folder 80: January-May 1817 Folder 81: June-September 1817 Folder 82: October-December 1817 |
Folder 83-86
Folder 83Folder 84Folder 85Folder 86 |
Correspondence, 1818 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 83-86Folder 83: January-March 1818 Folder 84: April-June 1818 Folder 85: July-September 1818 Folder 86: October-December 1818 |
Folder 87-89
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Correspondence, 1819 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 87-89Folder 87: January-April 1819 Folder 88: May-August 1819 Folder 89: September-December 1819 |
Folder 90-92
Folder 90Folder 91Folder 92 |
Correspondence, 1820 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 90-92Folder 90: January-April 1820 Folder 91: May-August 1820 Folder 92: September-December 1820 |
Folder 93-95
Folder 93Folder 94Folder 95 |
Correspondence, 1821 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 93-95Folder 93: January-April 1821 Folder 94: May-August 1821 Folder 95: September-December 1821 |
Folder 96-100
Folder 96Folder 97Folder 98Folder 99Folder 100 |
Correspondence, 1822 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 96-100Folder 96: January-February 1822 Folder 97: March 1822 Folder 98: April-May 1822 Folder 99: June-August 1822 Folder 100: September-December 1822 |
Folder 101-105
Folder 101Folder 102Folder 103Folder 104Folder 105 |
Correspondence, 1823 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 101-105Folder 101: January-February 1823 Folder 102: March-April 1823 Folder 103: May-July 1823 Folder 104: August-September 1823 Folder 105: October-December 1823 |
Folder 106-111
Folder 106Folder 107Folder 108Folder 109Folder 110Folder 111 |
Correspondence, 1824 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 106-111Folder 106: January-March 1824 Folder 107: April-May 1824 Folder 108: June-July 1824 Folder 109: August-October 1824 Folder 110: November 1824 Folder 111: December 1824 |
Folder 112-118
Folder 112Folder 113Folder 114Folder 115Folder 116Folder 117Folder 118 |
Correspondence, 1825 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 112-118Folder 112: January-February 1825 Folder 113: March-April 1825 Folder 114: May-June 1825 Folder 115: July-August 1825 Folder 116: September 1825 Folder 117: October 1825 Folder 118: November-December 1825 |
Folder 119-123
Folder 119Folder 120Folder 121Folder 122Folder 123 |
Correspondence, 1826 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 119-123Folder 119: January-February 1826 Folder 120: March-April 1826 Folder 121: May-June 1826 Folder 122: July-September 1826 Folder 123: October-December 1826 |
Folder 124-127
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Correspondence, 1827 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 124-127Folder 124: January-March 1827 Folder 125: April-May 1827 Folder 126: June-July 1827 Folder 127: October-December 1827 |
Folder 128-129
Folder 128Folder 129 |
Correspondence, 1828 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 128-129Folder 128: January-May 1828 Folder 129: June-December 1828 |
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Correspondence, 1829 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 130-131aFolder 130: January-May 1829 Folder 131a: June-December 1829 |
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Correspondence, Undated, circa 1752-1829: Letters received by John Haywood #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 131b-131d |
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Correspondence, Undated, circa 1752-1829: Letters received by Eliza Williams Haywood #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 131e |
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Other undated material, circa 1752-1829 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 131f-131l |
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Correspondence, Undated, circa 1800-1829: Letters received by Eliza Eagles Haywood #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 131m |
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Correspondence, Undated, circa 1800-1829: Relating to Raleigh Female Tract Society #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 131n |
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Correspondence, Undated, circa 1800-1829: Relating to Raleigh Academy #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 131o |
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Other undated material, circa 1800-1829 #01290, Subseries: "1.2. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1804-1829." Folder 131p-131r |
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Subseries 1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860.
Arrangement: chronological.
Chiefly professional and business papers of George Washington Haywood, second son of John Haywood, and of Alfred Williams, John Haywood's nephew, with correspondence and other items concerning many other individuals and matters. George Washington Haywood (1802-1890) was state attorney for Wake County, N.C. Alfred Williams of Raleigh and Marengo County, Ala., was an attorney and plantation owner. There are letters and other items of the following members of the Haywood family: Eliza Eagles (Betsy) Haywood, Alfred Moore Haywood, Fabius Julius Haywood, Edmund Burke Haywood, Rebecca Jane Haywood Hall (married to Albert G. Hall), John Steele Haywood, William Davie Haywood, Thomas Burgess Haywood, William Henry Haywood, Jr., and a number of cousins who did not bear the Haywood name.
See also Series 6, which includes many volumes dating from the period covered by this Series.
The papers of George Washington Haywood consist of letters to him from clients of Wake, Franklin, Chatham, and Johnston counties; legal documents--indentures, wills, deeds, bonds, court or trial dockets for Wake County Court and, beginning in 1835, letters to him from his brother John Steele Haywood who, with George, formed a partnership that owned a plantation in Greene County, Alabama. John lived on the Alabama plantation and apparently had a direct hand in the management of the farming operations, often acting as his own overseer. His letters to his brother George kept the latter informed about the enslaved people and the conditions on the plantation--crops, prices, etc. George Washington Haywood's letters from clients and legal documents often bear the names of Haywood cousins, friends, and neighbors in Wake and surrounding counties, such as Whitaker, Poole, Boylan, Yarborough, Holloman, Goodwin, and others. During these years, he appears to have had three or more law partners, including Thomas W. Johnston, David W. Stone, and a Mr. Miller.
The papers of Alfred Williams, cousin of the Haywood brothers, are merged with, but not related to, George Washington Haywood's papers. Williams' father and Haywood's mother were brother and sister. In partnership with Dr. Fabius Julius Haywood of Raleigh, a younger brother of George Washington, and his own brother John R. Williams, Alfred had for many years operated a drug firm and general merchandise store, Williams & Haywood, Inc. There are a number of business items of this firm and correspondence to the firm from the early 1830s from various physicians of eastern North Carolina, usually requesting drugs and medicines. About 1833, this partnership purchased land from a Houston family in Marengo County, Ala. From this point on, correspondence and business items of the merchant partnership no longer appear in the papers, although the firm continued for some years.
Alfred Williams moved to Alabama to operate the plantation. He accumulated wealth through enslavement of ninety-one people and by acquiring more land. Lists of the people he enslaved, as well as his accounts, tax lists, bills and receipts, correspondence with cotton commission merchants and overseers, and items on plantation business are present in the papers. Williams married about 1850 and returned to Raleigh to spend the greater part of each year, leaving the management of his plantation to a series of overseers with whom he corresponded. A deed, dated 4 January 1856, indicated that he bought more than 700 acres of land west of Raleigh.
There were a number of letters to Alfred Williams in Raleigh, N.C., and Linden, Alabama, in the early 1850s from his cousin, J. J. Williams. J. J. Williams (who was at Butler and Pushmataka in Choctaw County, Ala., in 1851 and 1852; at Prairie Plains and Anderson in Grimes County, Texas, in 1852 and 1853; and at Centerville in Leon County, Texas, in 1854) chiefly wrote about his financial difficulties and his efforts to sell land he owned in Texas to pay off his creditors, one of whom was Alfred Williams. While in Alabama, he also wrote about the progress of his crops and other plantation business. There are letters from several other individuals, including F. W. Harmes and Thomas Affleck in 1853, to Williams about the sale of the Texas property.
In addition to these two parallel but unrelated series of papers, there are letters of Alfred Moore Haywood, chiefly to his brother Edmund Burke Haywood, who was a physician in Raleigh after his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania, and also to his brother George Washington Haywood and his sister Betsy. These letters begin on 1 August 1856, in Galveston, Texas, and were written by Alfred Moore Haywood after he had killed a man named Smith during a fight in the city of Raleigh. There were witnesses to the fight and Haywood fled to Texas and thence to Mexico. His letters to his relatives describe his wanderings and sufferings. He finally settled in Matamoros, Mexico, leaving his Raleigh property and the people he enslaved there to his brother's management. He was 52 years old at the time.
The papers also contain about fourteen letters between members of the Scott family of New Bern and Raleigh, N.C. These are chiefly letters from Guion Scott to his brother Lawrence W. Scott, who was attempting to establish a practice of some sort (presumably medicine) in Raleigh. The final letter of this group is one from Charles G. Scott to George W. Haywood dated 5 August 1857. Otherwise, the Scott letters are apparently unrelated to the Haywood papers.
Folder 132-133
Folder 132Folder 133 |
Correspondence, 1830 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 132-133Folder 132: January-June 1830 Folder 133: July-December 1830 Slavery era records include:
Other notable materials are legal correspondence and papers of George Washington Haywood; similar items continue until 1860. February, William Henry Haywood, Jr., to his cousin Eliza Eagles Haywood (Betsy). 7 May, letter of introduction from John B. Muse of Washington, D.C., to Fabius Julius Haywood introducing Dr. Alexander Telfair. 23 May, Theo A. Snow to George W. Haywood, describing Terre Haute, Indiana, where he was visiting. 5 June, William H. Haywood, Jr., to his cousin Betsy with a statement and discussion of her indebtedness. 6 August, letter from E. Fondo, dressmaker for Miss E. Haywood. A number of legal papers of the 1830s bear the name of Birdsall. 13 December, W. Latimer of Edenton to Thomas W. Johnston (partner of George W. Haywood), concerning a sale of property. 21 December, William H. Haywood to Betsy Haywood giving personal advice. |
Folder 134-136
Folder 134Folder 135Folder 136 |
Correspondence, 1831 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 134-136Folder 134: January-July 1831 Folder 135: August 1831 Folder 136: September-December 1831 Slavery era records include:
Other materials include letters, 18 January, Judge Henry Potter, of Fayetteville, N.C., to Dr. Hudson M. Cave, Chapel Hill, about collecting a debt; 16 February, Marshall T. Pole of Charlotte, N.C., to John B. Johns or G. W. Haywood, about a legal matter; 19 April, Robert McKoy of Clinton, N.C., with an order for a Wedgewood mortar and pestle and smallpox vaccine from Williams & Haywood, Inc.; 29 April, I. T.(?) Haywood of Smithfield, N.C., to his cousin George W. Haywood about the latter running for political office and his chances; 30 May, Dr. J. T. Gilliam of Fayetteville, to Williams & Haywood, Inc. about the fire that had destroyed a large section of the town on the preceding day in which the drug supplies having been destroyed, Gilliam ordered supplies listing those most needed; August, advertisements sent out by Eliza Eagles Asaph Williams Haywood to state legislators offering rooms to rent during their stay in Raleigh; 1 August, William H. Haywood, Jr., on the death of his nephew, son of his sister Charity Manly; September-December, business letters of Williams & Haywood, Inc., from William Pickett of "near Hillsboro," M. E. Manly of New Bern, John T. Johnston of Hillsboro, Henry T. Clark of Tarboro, and other items from northern business firms. |
Folder 137-138
Folder 137Folder 138 |
Correspondence, 1832 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 137-138Folder 137: January-July 1832 Folder 138: August-December 1832 Slavery era records include:
Other materials include letters from I. T. Haywood and William Henry Haywood, Jr., and dry goods accounts of Eliza E. Haywood. Pension petition, Revolutionary War Service, of John Walker. Obituary of Elizabeth Araph (Williams) Haywood, who died 21 July 1832, written by Thomas Burgess Haywood. August 1832, of Elizabeth Miller to Washington Haywood, seeking assistance from the court regarding her husband Merrel Miller's physical abuse and abandonment for the Vandagriff family. 20 August, Charles Manly (governor of North Carolina 1849-1851) to Eliza E. Haywood on the execution of her mother's will. 19 December, D. W. Stone, Edenton, to Alfred Moore Haywood concerning the renting of land. |
Folder 139-140
Folder 139Folder 140 |
Correspondence, 1833 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 139-140Folder 139: January-June 1833 Folder 140: July-December 1833 Includes an inventory of drugs purchased from Dr. Rufus Haywood by Williams & Haywood, Inc. Part of an address (4 pages) by William Gaston. 10 June, Rebecca Jane Haywood to William B. Meares, Wilmington, attorney, about her Wilmington property recently inherited from her mother. 31 August, copy of the will of William Whitley of Wake County. 8 November, Dennis O'Bryan of Warren County to G. W. Haywood about renting the latter his "plantation on Swift Creek." Scattered letters and papers from or relating to Joseph Small of Pittsboro run through the early 1830s, mainly relating to his debts. 18 December, Thomas Burgess Haywood, Raleigh, to "Dear Sister" visiting in Wilmington, mainly a facetious letter about social life in Raleigh. |
Folder 141-142
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Correspondence, 1834 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 141-142Folder 141: January-September 1834 Folder 142: October-December 1834 Eliza E. Haywood to her sister Rebecca Jane, who was visiting in Wilmington with the E. B. Dudley family, giving extensive advice on the conduct of a young lady and an account of Raleigh social news. Information in the letters of Rebecca Haywood indicates that on this Wilmington visit she met Albert G. Hall and married him the following November or December in Raleigh. Her letters from 1835 until her tragic death in 1842 written to her sister Eliza depict the unfortunate circumstances of her married life and her trials with her husband. 20 February, bond of several members of the Haywood family to purchase some of the property that had been taken from John Haywood, state treasurer, when the deficit was discovered at his death. 21 March, Thomas D. King, Tuscaloosa, Ala., to G. W. Haywood about business concerning their two families. 1 April, Carolina R. Moore, Wilmington, N.C., to "My Dear Cousin" (Rebecca Jane Haywood). 5 April, Randolph Webb, Raleigh, to Judge Henry Seawell, Raleigh, legal matter concerning the discharge of a bond. 11 and 26 April, William B. Meares, Wilmington attorney, to George W. Haywood, legal business. 26 October, copy of the will of James Speight of Wake County. 24 November, Albert G. Hall, Wilmington, to Eliza Haywood on his forthcoming marriage to her sister Rebecca Jane. |
Folder 143-145
Folder 143Folder 144Folder 145 |
Correspondence, 1835 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 143-145Folder 143: January-March 1835 Folder 144: April-July 1835 Folder 145: August-December 1835 Includes Eliza Haywood's accounts with general merchandise firm in Raleigh. Two land transactions of William Donaldson and Henry A. Donaldson of Wake County. Letters from Rebecca (Haywood) Hall to her sister Eliza giving an account of her life in Wilmington. 4 March, the first of about six letters of C. H. Dudley, attending an Episcopal boys school in Raleigh, to Albert Hall. In this year appear the first letters of John Steele Haywood to his brother George W. written from Greensboro, Greene County, Ala., where he had moved to make a new life. 30 May, Elizabeth Pearsall to her nephew Albert G. Hall. |
Folder 146-148
Folder 146Folder 147Folder 148 |
Correspondence, 1836 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 146-148Folder 146: January-May 1836 Folder 147: June-September 1836 Folder 148: October-December Slavery era records include:
Other materials include legal correspondence of George W. Haywood with northern law firms. A marked increase in family letters, including the letters of A. G. Hall to his wife, Rebecca, staying with her family in Raleigh. Their first child was born in January 1836, a girl who was named Eliza Haywood Hall and thereafter called Betsy. 20 February, Fabius Haywood to Alfred Williams, Greensborough, Ala., with news of the families in both localities. Evidence in the letter indicates that the Alabama venture was a combined effort to repay debts and recover reputation. 22 January, Harry Clark, Cook County, Tenn., to his nephew Lewis Dupree of Raleigh. 8 March, copy of the will of Thomas Lambeth of Chatham County. 18 April, Theo A. Snow, Liberty Va., to George W. Haywood, friendly letter. 13 May, Joseph Gales Johnson, Choctaw, Columbus (Miss.?) on the influence of Santa Anna on the cotton market and advantages of emigrating to Texas as soon as the land opened up. A. G. Hall to Rebecca Haywood Hall. 26 September, H. Waddell, Pittsboro, to "My dear cousin" (Eliza Haywood) asking to room at her house. 6 November, (and March and April 1837) William Davie Haywood, Philadelphia, to his brother George on entering medical college. George W. was paying his tuition and expenses. Articles of agreement and correspondence with overseers. 2 November, Richard D. Speight, New Bern, legal business with W. Haywood. |
Folder 149-151
Folder 149Folder 150Folder 151 |
Correspondence, 1837 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 149-151Folder 149: January-May 1837 Folder 150: June-August 1837 Folder 151: September-December 1837 Includes legal papers and plantation correspondence and accounts as heretofore. 12 March, Rebecca Haywood Hall, Woodbine Retreat near South Washington, N.C., where she and her husband had made their home and engaged in farming, to her sister Eliza Haywood. Eliza Haywood's household accounts with the Raleigh firm of Haywood and Little. 3 July and 17 August, William Davie Haywood, Philadelphia, to his brother George on receiving his medical degree, which took him six months. 2 August, deed for Indiana land between William and Susan Williams and Alexander Lawrence. Correspondence with attorneys and other persons in Indiana over this property composes a minor segment of the Williams papers for the next 20-year period. Other letters from Rebecca Hall and one from Albert G. Hall of 17 December to Eliza Haywood telling of the arrival of his wife's second child, a daughter called Alice. 27 October, Will of Susan Parrish of Wake County. |
Folder 152-155
Folder 152Folder 153Folder 154Folder 155 |
Correspondence, 1838 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 152-155Folder 152: January-March 1838 Folder 153: April-June 1838 Folder 154: July-September 1838 Folder 155: October-December 1838 February 18, Richard Barum, friend and client of George W. Haywood, formerly of Wake County, withdrawing lawsuit against "old Rodgers" and the Williams family. March and October 24, J. W. Carroll, Chapel Hill attorney, urging G. W. Haywood to attend to certain legal matters. May 5, Abraham Rencher, Washington, D. C., to G. W. Haywood. May 25, M. I. Waddell, Pittsboro, to Charles Manly about a debt. June 19, William Roles to G. W. Haywood requesting legal advice on a suspected rape of a mute girl. July 13, August 16, and January 25, 1840, Robert Stamper, Hilliardston, Nash County, to G. W. Haywood about his suit against the Bank of the State of North Carolina October 25, March 11 and November 27, 1839, Moses Jewett, Columbus, Mo., to George W. Haywood about Dr. Joseph B. Hinton of Raleigh. November 7, [Mrs.] S. H. Waddell, Hillsboro, to Eliza Moorefields near Hillsborough. November 8, Alfred M. Haywood, Raleigh, to her brother George about desiring to keep the family home to purchase herself for a boarding school. |
Folder 156-158
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Correspondence, 1839 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 156-158Folder 156: January-May 1839 Folder 157: June-October 1839 Folder 158: November-December 1839 Slavery era records include:
Other materials include: January 3, letters from Eliza E. Haywood to her brothers Fabius and George thanking them for enabling her to keep the family home; November 16, Joseph B. Hinton, Raleigh, to George W. Haywood; February 12, 1842, same to same. There are several letters from Rebecca Jane Haywood Hall to Eliza E. Haywood, and scattered letters 1839-41 from Reverdy Johnson to George W. Haywood. |
Folder 159-160
Folder 159Folder 160 |
Correspondence, 1840 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 159-160Folder 159: January-June 1840 Folder 160: July-December 1840 Includes many business and legal papers and letters of George W. Haywood. Also in this year are a few letters and invitations to G. W. Haywood on Whig business or celebrations. Eliza Haywood's school tuition bills and receipts. March 5, Charles Fisher, Washington, D. C., about "the debt we owe to the Literary Board." March 30, John H. Seawell, Spring Hill, Ala., to his brother Henry Seawell, Raleigh. May 20, B. Whitfield wrote to give Williams information on his land holdings and conditions in Alabama in general. July 10, Abraham Rencher, Pittsboro, to Charles Manly, Raleigh, about a Whig meeting and maneuvers. September 11, J. O. Watson of Raleigh writing from Montreal, Canada, to G. E. Haywood about his travels in that place. September 23, November 16, Rebecca Hall, South Washington, N.C., to her sister Eliza about the new baby daughter, her many problems, her husband's unkindness. |
Folder 161-163
Folder 161Folder 162Folder 163 |
Correspondence, 1841 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 161-163Folder 161: January-March 1841 Folder 162: April-August 1841 Folder 163: September-December 1841 Includes scattered letters during this period to Eliza Haywood from [Mrs.] S. H. Waddell of Hillsboro, and also from Rebecca Hall. January 8, H. I. Gorman, Concord, to Martha Gorman, Raleigh, about losing his money and property, going to Mississippi. Family letters about Eliza's plan to open a boarding school. March 29, W. Nichols, formerly of Raleigh, writing from prison (?) to George W. Haywood desiring his services as an attorney. An engineer, Nichols had gotten into serious trouble. July 17, Ezra McCall Tate, Asheville, N.C., to George W. Haywood. May 2, Rebecca Hall to Eliza on her little daughter Alice being burned to death and other tragic events in her family. December 25, and August 1, 1842, Spencer H. Alston, Bedford, N.C., to G. W. Haywood, personal and business matters. |
Folder 164-167
Folder 164Folder 165Folder 166Folder 167 |
Correspondence, 1842 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 164-167Folder 164: January-March 1842 Folder 165: April-July 1842 Folder 166: August-October 1842 Folder 167: November-December 1842 Includes letters from Merritt Dillard of Holy Springs, Ala., to Alfred Williams, Linden, Ala., about mutual property holdings, debts, etc. A number of family letters, accounts and other business items related to the family farming ventures in Alabama. Letters of Rebecca Hall to her sister Eliza and also of her husband urging payment to him of his wife's share of her mother's estate. August 20, Ann M. Jones, South Washington, to Eliza Haywood on the death of Rebecca Haywood Hall. November 28, Guion Scott, New Bern, to his brother Lawrence W. Scott, Raleigh. November 28, Thomas A. Williams, Hamilton, Ga., to his brother Alfred telling of their brother William's imminent departure for Mississippi and family business. See also 7 July 1843, Williams to Williams. December 31, Albert G. Hall to Eliza E. Haywood declining her offer to raise and educate Rebecca's two surviving daughters, Betsy and Ida. |
Folder 168-170
Folder 168Folder 169Folder 170 |
Correspondence, 1843 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 168-170Folder 168: January-May 1843 Folder 169: June-August 1843 Folder 170: September-December 1843 Slavery era records include
Includes business and legal papers as heretofore. January 7, Eliza E. Haywood to Alfred Hall on the care and education of Rebecca's two daughters, and March 1, Hall's reply to same. These are the last letters relating to the Hall family in the papers. Letters from John MacLeod, "Buna Vista," Johnston County, N.C., to George W. Haywood about debts, legal matters, Whig business, at length. These letters are dated June 25, June 26 (to H. W. Husted of Raleigh), July 4, August 17, September 1, October 12, 21; and October 23, 1844. July 19, William Davie Haywood to his brother George about his poor circumstances, desiring to leave for Alabama to practice as a physician. Shortly after this letter was written he did leave for Alabama where he lived with his brother John on his plantation in Greene County. John's letter to George of November 29 describes William's conduct on the plantation. July 27, will of Elija Powell of Chatham County. August 21, Eliza Haywood to her brother George about the education of their brother Edmund Burke, who was going to UNC. October 25, will of Lucinda Lanier of Franklin County, N.C. |
Folder 171-174
Folder 171Folder 172Folder 173Folder 174 |
Correspondence, 1844 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 171-174Folder 171: January-March 1844 Folder 172: April-August 1844 Folder 173: September-October 1844 Folder 174: November-December 1844 Slavery era records include:
Includes letters from E. Burke Haywood attending UNC at Chapel Hill. January 13, D. Sugg to George W. Haywood, legal business and emigrating to Mississippi. Indenture between William Powell and William Poole of Wake. February 10, Indenture between William N. Shanck, George W. Haywood, John Buffalow, Weston R. Gales, and John Smith for land. May 29, Joel King, Green Hill, Ala., to Alfred Williams. May, will of William Lashley of Wake County. July 29, copy of letter from George W. Haywood to David W. Stone, Raleigh attorney, in which Haywood demanded to know if Stone had made certain slanderous statements about him. Stone either was or had been a law partner of Haywood's. October 17, Eliza E. Haywood to her brother Burke at Chapel Hill with family and Raleigh news. November 24, John P. Manly, Smithfield, to George W. Haywood asking him to be his "groomsman." November 29, Joel King, Green Hill, Ala., to Alfred Williams about business, debts, mutual friends. December 14, Guion Scott, New Bern, to his brother Dr. Lawrence W. Scott, Raleigh. |
Folder 175-178
Folder 175Folder 176Folder 177Folder 178 |
Correspondence, 1845 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 175-178Folder 175: January-April 1845 Folder 176: May-July 1845 Folder 177: August-October 1845 Folder 178: November-December 1845 Slavery era records include:
Other materials are scattered letters between members of the Scott family. January 3, 13, deed and articles of agreement between John S. and George W. Haywood as to the ownership and operation of their Alabama land holdings. January 19, Reverdy Johnson, Annapolis, to George W. Haywood. January 30, Thomas Bragg, Warrenton, N.C., to G. W. Haywood. March 29, N. E. Rand, New Bern, Alabama, to John Hayes, attorney of Raleigh, telling about one D. B. Massey, alias Dempsey Blake, formerly of Wake County, who had deserted his North Carolina family and settled in Alabama. May 25 and later, letters from E. Burke Haywood at Chapel Hill to his brother George and sister Eliza. October 6, George Gray, Windsor, N.C., to his cousin David Stone. A few items of legal and business correspondence of David W. Stone. November 5, 19, W. H. Jones, Raleigh, to David W. Stone. Legal papers of the Powell and Fowler families of Wake County. |
Folder 179-180
Folder 179Folder 180 |
Correspondence, 1846 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 179-180Folder 179: January-June 1846 Folder 180: July-December 1846 Includes family letters, a number about William Davie Haywood in Greene County, Ala., and a few from him. April 1, May 1, J. P. Devereux to David W. Stone. Many business items related to the Marengo County, Ala., plantation of Williams & Haywood, Inc. August 29, E. Burke Haywood to his brother George about his decision to "quit the study of Law and commence that of Physick." November 21, M. A. C. Gaines, Wake Forest, about giving security to G. W. Haywood. |
Folder 181-184
Folder 181Folder 182Folder 183Folder 184 |
Correspondence, 1847 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 181-184Folder 181: January-April 1847 Folder 182: May-July 1847 Folder 183: August-September 1847 Folder 184: October-December 1847 Slavery era records include:
Other materials are almost entirely legal and business papers. January 9, Alfred Williams, Marengo County, Ala, to his brother John R. at Raleigh concerning their mutual affairs. February 17, power of attorney granted by T. Loving, Wake County, to William R. Pool was an active Whig and friend of George W. Haywood. |
Folder 185-187
Folder 185Folder 186Folder 187 |
Correspondence, 1848 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 185-187Folder 185: January-May 1848 Folder 186: June-August 1848 Folder 187: September-December 1848 Legal correspondence and papers of George W. Haywood, and plantation business items and correspondence of Williams and Haywood, Inc. |
Folder 188-192
Folder 188Folder 189Folder 190Folder 191Folder 192 |
Correspondence, 1849 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 188-192Folder 188: January-February 1849 Folder 189: March-May 1849 Folder 190: June-August 1849 Folder 191: September-October 1849 Folder 192: November-December 1849 Slavery era records include:
Other papers are similar to those previously described. Also included are papers relating to the family and descendants of James Furse who married Herodias Redding in 1766 in Savannah, Ga. (typed transcription). March 3, Mat. W. Alexander, Charlotte, to George W. Haywood. April 7, E. Burke Haywood's medical diploma from the University of Pennsylvania. July and September, a few legal papers relating to the Stith family of Raleigh. September 1, William S. Hadley, Chatham County, to the directors of the Bank of Cape Fear at Raleigh about debts of the late Allen Goodwin of Raleigh. December 6, Nathaniel J. Palmer, Milton, N.C., to Sarah Ann Stone, widow of David W. Stone, and December 10, Palmer's bond to Sarah Ann Stone. Also October 6, 1850, Palmer to George W. Haywood. |
Folder 193-195
Folder 193Folder 194Folder 195 |
Correspondence, 1850 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 193-195Folder 193: January-March 1850 Folder 194: April-July 1850 Folder 195: August-December 1850 Slavery era records include:
Primarily papers similar to those previously described. Also included are May 7, Samuel F. Phillips, Chapel Hill, to George W. Haywood about litigation between Henry Williams and a Mr. Page whose son married Williams's daughter. August 14, legal agreement between Edward Yarborough of Raleigh and Alfred Williams. Yarborough had married Hannah Haywood, widow of Dr. John Lee Haywood, and was the proprietor of Raleigh's Yarborough House. September, 27, H. Waddell, Hillsboro, to George W. Haywood about being sued by the Bank of Cape Fear. Also two letters of February 21, 1851. |
Folder 196-198
Folder 196Folder 197Folder 198 |
Correspondence, 1851 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 196-198Folder 196: January-April 1851 Folder 197: May-September 1851 Folder 198: October-December 1851 Slavery era records include:
Other papers are as previously described. Scattered letters during the year from J. R. Whitaker, Wilmington, to George W. Haywood. August 30, two lengthy letters from John S. Haywood, Greensborough, Ala., to George W. giving an account of the state of their operations in Alabama, extent of land holding, present and future prospects. December 8, John W. Wilson, overseer, to his employer Alfred Williams. Other Wilson letters occasionally during this decade. December 9, Samuel F. Phillips, Chapel Hill, to G. W. Haywood about an insolvent merchant, a Mr. Kirkland. |
Folder 199-201
Folder 199Folder 200Folder 201 |
Correspondence, 1852 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 199-201Folder 199: January-April 1852 Folder 200: May-August 1852 Folder 201: September-December 1852 Chiefly papers as previously described. February 1 and March 12, M. D. J. Slade, Tuscaloosa, Ala., to Alfred Williams. Slade was a native North Carolinian. November 1, Sidney Smith, Chapel Hill, to George W. Haywood about mutual business. |
Folder 202-203
Folder 202Folder 203 |
Correspondence, 1853 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 202-203Folder 202: January-July 1853 Folder 203: August-December 1853 Slavery era records include:
Chiefly papers as previously described. January 9, John R. Williams, Raleigh, to his brother Alfred in Linden, Ala., about the Williams' business operations in Raleigh. June 15, John T. Williams, Harris County, Ga., to his uncle Alfred on the death of his father. Scattered correspondence of a legal nature from William Veitch of Philadelphia to George W. Haywood. October 2, Charles Manly to Eliza E. Haywood. |
Folder 204-206
Folder 204Folder 205Folder 206 |
Correspondence, 1854 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 204-206Folder 204: January-March 1854 Folder 205: April-July 1854 Folder 206: August-December 1854 Chiefly papers as previously described. May 30, Thomas Ruffin (not the chief justice), Washington, D. C., to G. W. Haywood on the legal question of sanity with regard to his sister. June 12, Merritt Dillard, Carroll County, Miss., to John Griffes, Raleigh, about his long life in Mississippi, debts, etc. |
Folder 207-210
Folder 207Folder 208Folder 209Folder 210 |
Correspondence, 1855 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 207-210Folder 207: January-February 1855 Folder 208: March-June 1855 Folder 209: July-August 1855 Folder 210: September-December 1855 Chiefly papers as previously described. September 10, William A. Graham, Hillsboro, to G. W. Haywood on legal business. November 18, Alfred Moore Haywood to his brother George about his problems. |
Folder 211-213
Folder 211Folder 212Folder 213 |
Correspondence, 1856 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 211-213Folder 211: January-March 1856 Folder 212: April-September 1856 Folder 213: October-December 1856 Chiefly papers as previously described. January 4, deed for a large tract of land purchased by Alfred Williams west of Raleigh. August 1 is the date of the first letter written by Alfred Moore Haywood on his flight from Raleigh, accused of murdering a man named Smith. Haywood's letters to his brothers in Raleigh continue until after the Civil War. |
Folder 214-216
Folder 214Folder 215Folder 216 |
Correspondence, 1857 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 214-216Folder 214: January-March 1857 Folder 215: April-August 1857 Folder 216: September-December 1857 Chiefly correspondence and other papers as previously described. A number of family letters, including letters from Alfred M. Haywood staying temporarily with a Dr. Ruffin (formerly of North Carolina) in Lexington and Independence, Mo., Van Buren, Ark., and other locations on the frontier. Sometimes he signed his name "Jacob Shepperd." November, E. Burke Haywood's account books for his patients, including Sion H. Rogers. |
Folder 217-219
Folder 217Folder 218Folder 219 |
Correspondence, 1858 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 217-219Folder 217: January-March 1858 Folder 218: April-August 1858 Folder 219: September-December 1858 Includes more letters from Alfred Haywood, some written from Matamoros, Mexico, where he finally decided to settle. A few items of Colonel Edward Yarborough, some relating to the Yarborough House at Raleigh. March 6, C. C. H., Columbia, Tennessee, to "Dear Sister," (Fanny Jones) containing an obituary of Colonel Edward Jones of Pittsboro, Chatham County, which gives some biographical and genealogical information. April 9, Charles Manly to "My dear Cousin," (Eliza Haywood). May 16, James T. Morehead, Greensboro, N.C., to George W. Haywood about the business of Jacob Hubbard. |
Folder 220-222
Folder 220Folder 221Folder 222 |
Correspondence, 1859 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 220-222Folder 220: January-March 1859 Folder 221: April-September 1859 Folder 222: October-December 1859 Slavery era records include:
Other materials include January, Alfred M. Haywood, Matamoros, Mexico, to Burke Haywood. This letter describes his two-month stay at Monterey. A number of other Alfred Haywood letters are present during the year. April 1 and May 9, William Cate, Jonesboro, Tenn., to Alfred Williams about business of the family of the late W. T. M. Outlaw and the Hartmus family. Some correspondence relating to the sale of Alfred Haywood's land by his brother Burke to a Mr. Henry. Henry died a few months after this and it is not clear whether the sale actually went through. December 2, John S. Haywood to George W. on the death of their brother William Davie Haywood of typhoid fever. |
| Folder 223-225a |
Correspondence, 1860 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 223-225aFolder 223: January-March 1860 Folder 224: April-October 1860 Folder 225a: November-December 1860 Chiefly business, legal, and plantation papers as previously described, and letters from Alfred Moore Haywood in Mexico. |
| Folder 225b |
Undated letters received by George Washington Haywood, circa 1830-1860 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 225b |
| Folder 225c-225i |
Other undated material, 1830-1860 #01290, Subseries: "1.3. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1830-1860." Folder 225c-225i |
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Subseries 1.4. Correspondence and Related Loose Papers, 1861-1946.
Arrangement: chronological.
Items from the Civil War period chiefly relate to Edmund Burke Haywood and his work with Confederate army hospitals in North Carolina. Included are accounts; invoices for medicines and other supplies, apparently listing all items issued to Burke Haywood as surgeon in charge of Pettigrew Hospital in Raleigh; reports of Confederate sick and wounded and of Union prisoners, listing names, regiments, and ailments; receipts from the Quartermaster's Department; notices from the Bureau of Conscription, recalling soldiers to duty from the hospital; and circulars from the surgeon general's office. Also included are a few medical case studies, 1864 and undated, giving descriptions of particular wounds and illnesses and precise accounts of the treatment followed in each case.
Note: See also Series 6, which includes many volumes from the period covered by this Series, especially Subseries 6.5, with records of E. Burke Haywood's Confederate medical practice.
Items from the period 1866 to 1875 chiefly concern the administration of the Williams and Haywood plantation in Marengo County, Ala. Included are bills and receipts, accounts, contracts with sharecroppers, reports on the cotton market, and many letters to Alfred Williams from various agents in Alabama, including Bryan Bennet, Charles Pence, F. A. Royal, and others. Also included in this period is a series of letters, 1865-1872, to Fabius Julius Haywood and E. Burke Haywood from "Jacob Shepperd," or Alfred Moore Haywood, residing in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico; most of these letters discuss the sorry state of his financial affairs and inquire after the administration of his remaining property in North Carolina.
Scattered accounts of the Alabama plantation continue until about 1882. However, after 1875 most items pertain to E. Burke Haywood or his family. Included are many bills, 1874-1880, of Burke Haywood as medical examiner for the North Carolina State Life Insurance Company; letters, 1876-1884, to Burke Haywood concerning the North Carolina State Insane Asylum; and miscellaneous bills, receipts, and correspondence of Burke Haywood. There are many letters, 1870-1884, from Burke Haywood's sons Alfred, Hubert, and Ernest Haywood, to their parents, their aunts Frances and Eliza, their sister Bettie, their younger brothers John and Edgar, and occasionally to each other; these letters were written from various schools and describe the students, classes and other activities. Alfred W. Haywood attended Oxford High School, Oxford, N.C., in 1870, Hubert Haywood attended the school from 1871 to 1874, and Ernest Haywood in 1873 and 1874; in 1874 J. H. Horner and R. M. Graves, principals of Oxford High School, started a school in Hillsborough, N.C., which was attended by Hubert Haywood in 1874 and by Ernest Haywood from 1874 to 1876. There are also a few letters, 1874-1876, from Hubert Haywood at the University of Virginia, and many letters from Ernest Haywood, 1877-1881, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Also included are a typed transcription of the minutes, 1853-1887, of the Neuse Manufacturing Company, of which Fabius J. Haywood was a stockholder; a biographical sketch of E. Burke Haywood, 1877; a letter, 1 April 1885, to E. Burke Haywood from the University Gymnasium Association, which was founded "for the purpose of erecting a gymnasium and providing a ball-room" after the University Commencement Ball was banned from the campus at Chapel Hill; a few papers, 1898, regarding an inheritance from Philemon H. Haywood (d. 1852), midshipman, United States Navy, including an application for arrears of pay and other allowances filed by Philemon Haywood's sister Sally Haywood and a statement by Marshall DeLancey Haywood renouncing all claim to the legacy; bills, receipts and accounts, 1898-1910, of Dr. James McKee (1844-1912), superintendent of the North Carolina State Insane Asylum; advertisements for various income tax guides, 1919; a collection of articles, circa 1939, about duels and duelling, especially in North Carolina; and a membership bulletin, 1946, of the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce.
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Series 2. Clippings and Lottery Tickets, 1802-1947.
Arrangement: by type.
Miscellaneous clippings on many different topics. Some of the clippings date from the Civil War. Also included is a bundle of North Carolina lottery tickets.
Folder 308-310
Folder 308Folder 309Folder 310 |
Clippings, circa 1861-1947 #01290, Series: "2. Clippings and Lottery Tickets, 1802-1947." Folder 308-310 |
| Folder 311 |
Lottery Tickets, circa 1802-1803 #01290, Series: "2. Clippings and Lottery Tickets, 1802-1947." Folder 311 |
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Series 3. Account Books and Other Volumes, 1769, 1812-1967, and undated.
Arrangement: by type.
The volumes series was rearranged and renumbered in 1991. The former number for each volume is included in parentheses at the end of each description.
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Subseries 3.1. Household and Personal Accounts, 1812-1881.
Arrangement: chronological.
Account books showing purchases of food, clothing, and other household items chiefly kept by Elizabeth E. A. Haywood. Also included are account books for E. B.(Burke?) Haywood, and Miss F. A. (Frances Ann) Haywood recording their personal expenses and expenses at a specific store.
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Subseries 3.2. Plantation Journals and Accounts, 1833-1881.
Arrangement: chronological.
Volumes containing miscellaneous notes, journal entries, and accounts for plantations. Two volumes specifically refer to Alabama plantations owned by Alfred Williams and his cousin William Haywood. The other eight volumes do not identify the plantations, but it is possible that they also relate to the Alabama properties. The final two volumes in this subseries appear to be records of time worked by freedmen after the Civil War and supplies that were given to them.
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Subseries 3.3. Merchants' Account Books, 1832-1931 and
undated.
Arrangement: by type.
James Newlon account books, 1832-1837: three account books recording sales and repairs of shoes. Volume 22 is not identified as belonging to James Newlon, but it includes similar accounts.
Williams & Haywood Account Books, 1834-1837.
Yarborough account books, 1851-1862: Four account books kept by members of the Yarborough family. Other volumes for the Yarborough family are included in Subseries 6.6.
E. B. Haywood Account Books, 1871-1876 and undated: Four account books kept by E. B. (Burke?) Haywood of Raleigh, N.C., for some type of sheep and calf skin business.
Unidentified Merchant Account Books, 1834-1931 and undated: Various account books recording sales of merchandise for which the owner is unidentified. The last eight account books were apparently kept by the same individual, possibly for a store in Watauga County, N.C.
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Subseries 3.4. Legal Record Book, 1814-1815.
| Folder 342 |
Volume 47: Legal record book, 1814-1815 #01290, Subseries: "3.4. Legal Record Book, 1814-1815." Folder 342Book listing names of individuals who were assigned warrants, certificates, and claims, and the amounts they owed (formerly volume 2). |
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Subseries 3.5. Medical Notebooks and Accounts, 1847-1883.
Arrangement: chronological.
The majority of these volumes relate to E. Burke Haywood, a physician in Raleigh, N.C. A number of the items date from the Civil War, when Haywood was a surgeon at several Confederate hospitals in the area. Also included are books with notes on his cases, possible remedies, and accounts for patients.
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Subseries 3.6. Hotel Guest Registers, 1860-1865.
Three guest registers for Yarborough House in Raleigh, N.C.
Oversize Volume SV-1290/67-69
SV-1290/67SV-1290/68SV-1290/69 |
Volumes 67-69: Yarborough House guest registers, 1860-1865 #01290, Subseries: "3.6. Hotel Guest Registers, 1860-1865." SV-1290/67-69(formerly volumes S-41, S-42, and S-43). |
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Subseries 3.7. Bank Books, 1842-1876 and undated.
Arrangement: chronological.
Bank books for several individuals in the Haywood family. Also included are bank books for Alfred Williams.
| Folder 362 |
Volume 70: Bank book, 1842 #01290, Subseries: "3.7. Bank Books, 1842-1876 and undated." Folder 362George W. Haywood in account with Bank of Cape Fear (formerly volume 25). |
| Folder 363 |
Volume 71: Bank book, 1845 #01290, Subseries: "3.7. Bank Books, 1842-1876 and undated." Folder 363Alfred Williams in account with Merchants Bank (formerly volume 26). |
| Folder 364 |
Volume 72: Bank book, 1866 #01290, Subseries: "3.7. Bank Books, 1842-1876 and undated." Folder 364McGee & Williams in account with Mechanics Bank of New York (formerly volume 59). |
| Folder 365 |
Volume 73: Bank book, 1874 #01290, Subseries: "3.7. Bank Books, 1842-1876 and undated." Folder 365Book of check stubs (formerly volume 69). |
| Folder 366 |
Volume 74: Bank book, 1876 #01290, Subseries: "3.7. Bank Books, 1842-1876 and undated." Folder 366Dr. E. Burke Haywood in account with Citizen's National Bank (formerly volume 70). |
| Folder 367 |
Volume 75: Bank book, Undated #01290, Subseries: "3.7. Bank Books, 1842-1876 and undated." Folder 367Alfred Williams in account with the State Bank of North Carolina. Also included are accounts for Webb & Williams and Williams & Haywood, and a list of medicines (formerly volume 105). |
| Folder 368 |
Volume 76: Bank book, Undated #01290, Subseries: "3.7. Bank Books, 1842-1876 and undated." Folder 368A. Williams with Banks of the State of North Carolina (formerly volume 106). |
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Subseries 3.8. Account Books for Labor, 1837-1856.
| Oversize Volume SV-1290/77 |
Volume 77: Day book #01290, Subseries: "3.8. Account Books for Labor, 1837-1856." SV-1290/77Day book recording amounts paid for labor on road and quarry, including amounts spent for liquor, cash, and board. The name of Morris Freel, spelled various ways, figures prominently in the accounts. Apparently for Wake County, N.C. (formerly volume S-116). |
| Folder 369 |
Volume 78: Account book for labor #01290, Subseries: "3.8. Account Books for Labor, 1837-1856." Folder 369(formerly volume 37). |
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Subseries 3.9. Recipe Books, 1862-1872 and undated.
Arrangement: chronological.
| Folder 370 |
Volume 79: Recipe book, June 1862 #01290, Subseries: "3.9. Recipe Books, 1862-1872 and undated." Folder 370Also includes accounts (formerly volume 47). |
| Folder 371 |
Volume 80: Recipes, 1867-1872 #01290, Subseries: "3.9. Recipe Books, 1862-1872 and undated." Folder 371(formerly volume 61). |
| Folder 372 |
Volumes 81-85: Recipes, Undated #01290, Subseries: "3.9. Recipe Books, 1862-1872 and undated." Folder 372(formerly volumes 101, 102, 103, 104, and 114). |
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Subseries 3.10. School Notebooks, 1819-1880 and
undated.
Arrangement: chronological.
Chiefly lecture notes taken by Ernest Haywood while he was at the University of North Carolina. Also included is a copy book for Eliza A. Dudley, and four small volumes containing what appear to be history notes.
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Subseries 3.11. Lettercopy Books, 1889-1895.
Two lettercopy books relating to Ernest Haywood.
| Folder 388 |
Volume 107: Lettercopy book, 1889-1891 #01290, Subseries: "3.11. Lettercopy Books, 1889-1895." Folder 388Copies of letters on various business and industrial enterprises, including land, manufacturing, and mining (formerly volume 88). |
| Folder 389 |
Volume 108: Lettercopy book, 1892-1895 #01290, Subseries: "3.11. Lettercopy Books, 1889-1895." Folder 389(Formerly volume 89.) |
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Subseries 3.12. Miscellaneous Writings, 1769-1967.
| Folder 390 |
Volume 109: Reflections, circa 1821-1828 #01290, Subseries: "3.12. Miscellaneous Writings, 1769-1967." Folder 390182 pages of moral meditations and reflections on transcriptions from readings, inscribed "E. E. W. Haywood." This volume presumably was composed by Eliza Eagles Williams Haywood during the 1820s. It includes reflections on intellectual and social roles of women and on women's treatment by men (formerly volume 8). |
| Folder 391 |
Volume 110: "The Religion of the Bible and K[ing] W[illiam] County Compared," by James Reid, 1769 #01290, Subseries: "3.12. Miscellaneous Writings, 1769-1967." Folder 391Presented to Thos. B. Haywood in February 1836 (formerly volume 20). |
| Folder 392 |
Volume 111: "Transactions of the American Philosophical Society," 1967 #01290, Subseries: "3.12. Miscellaneous Writings, 1769-1967." Folder 392New Series, Vol. 57, Part 1 (1957), edited by Richard Beale Davis, containing a transcription of Volume 110 (formerly addition to volume 20). |
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Subseries 3.13. Memorandum Books, 1816-1863 and
undated.
Arrangement: chronological.
Volumes belonging to the Haywood family containing miscellaneous notes and memoranda. Included is a list of books owned by E. Burke Haywood in 1863.
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Series 4. Pictures, 1860-1930 and
undated.
This series includes a portrait of Edmund Burke Haywood by W. G. Randall [in 1993 hanging in the Di-Phi Chamber in the New West Building], a pencil sketch of Pettigrew Hospital, and forty pictures and cartes-de-visite. The cartes-de-visite picture Confederate generals, leaders, and other prominent figures. Also included are a picture of Ernest Haywood and an engraving of John Haywood.
Note: Photographs P-1290/1-20 were published by E. and H. T. Anthony, New York, N.Y.
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Series 5. Microfilm.
Reel 1-40
Reel 1Reel 2Reel 3Reel 4Reel 5Reel 6Reel 7Reel 8Reel 9Reel 10Reel 11Reel 12Reel 13Reel 14Reel 15Reel 16Reel 17Reel 18Reel 19Reel 20Reel 21Reel 22Reel 23Reel 24Reel 25Reel 26Reel 27Reel 28Reel 29Reel 30Reel 31Reel 32Reel 33Reel 34Reel 35Reel 36Reel 37Reel 38Reel 39Reel 40 |
Microfilm #01290, Series: "5. Microfilm." Reel 1-40
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Processed by: Jane Adkins, Shonra Newman, and Rebecca Hollingsworth with the assistance of Angela Dickerson, March 1993
Encoded by: Bari Helms, March 2005
Conscious editing by Nancy Kaiser, April 2022: Updated collection overview, subject headings, biographical note, scope and content note, and contents list.
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