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Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 137 items) |
Abstract | Alexander Justice was a lawyer of in New Bern, N.C. Chiefly legal and business papers of New Bern, N.C., lawyer, Alexander Justice, including grants, deeds, indentures, plats, bills of sale for slaves, wills, amnesty oaths, marriage contracts, bills and receipts, and bank shares. Also included are a composition book, 1843-1845, of Justice when he was a student at the University of North Carolina; items regarding Justice, Sparrow, Green, and Tillman family history; and other items belonging to Justice and his family; and records of the Confederate Corps of Engineers at Fort Macon, N.C., April-October 1861, concerning the hiring and quartering of slaves and free blacks who worked on railroad and coastal defenses. |
Creator | Justice, Alexander, 1825-1879. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, September 1996
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, December 2009
This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
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Alexander Justice was a lawyer of in New Bern, N.C.
Back to TopChiefly legal and business papers of New Bern, N.C., lawyer, Alexander Justice, including grants, deeds, indentures, plats, bills of sale for slaves, wills, amnesty oaths, marriage contracts, bills and receipts, and bank shares. Also included are a composition book, 1843-1845, of Justice when he was a student at the University of North Carolina; items regarding Justice, Sparrow, Green, and Tillman family history; and other items belonging to Justice and his family; and records of the Confederate Corps of Engineers at Fort Macon, N.C., April-October 1861, concerning the hiring and quartering of slaves and free blacks who worked on railroad and coastal defenses.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
Grants, deeds, indentures, plats, bills of sale for slaves, wills, amnesty oaths, marriage contracts, bills, bank shares, etc. The only letters are a few 1871 letters about a claim in court and two letters in 1911 to Annie Justice about family history. Also included are the will of James Cicero Justice, 1897, and a few business papers of the Justice heirs.
There is one folder of genealogy and notes on family history of the Justice, Sparrow, Green, Tillman families. There are also some early family records of these families.
Folder 1 |
1750-1810 |
Folder 2 |
1811-1825 |
Oversize Paper OP-1308/1 |
30 January 1824 |
Folder 3 |
1827-1839 |
Folder 4 |
1843-1854 |
Folder 5 |
1855-1857 |
Folder 6 |
1860-1869 |
Folder 7 |
1870-1874 |
Folder 8 |
1875-1879 |
Folder 9 |
1883-1925 |
Folder 10 |
Undated |
Folder 11 |
Genealogical papers |
Arrangement: chronological.
Folder 12 |
Volume 1: 1843-1845, 50 pp.Composition book of Alexander Justice while at the University of North Carolina. |
Folder 13 |
Volume 2: 1861, 50 pp.Record book from Fort Macon Corps of Engineers in connection with quartering and hiring of African-Americans and the record of work done on railroads and coastal defenses. |
Reel M-1308/1 |
Microfilm |