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Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 250 items) |
Abstract | Papers collected by William S. Powell pertaining to Iredell and adjacent counties of North Carolina. The bulk consists of family correspondence, 1867-1901, and account books of two generations of the Goodman family. Letters are personal correspondence of Tobias Goodman (1814-1880) of Amity, Iredell County; his wife Ellen; and his sons and a nephew, including a building materials merchant at Hillsboro, Ill., a railroad employee at Birmingham, Ala., a resident of Lavon, Tex., and others. Letters from Hillsboro, Ill., discuss weather, prices, wages, opportunity that led to leaving North Carolina, the high cost of food in Illinois, and homesickness. Other personal letters discuss farming and give family news, especially about illnesses, deaths, and estates. Account books, chiefly from Iredell County, are for general merchandise and lumber sales, 1853-1856; church contributions (perhaps Presbyterian), 1855-1856; farm crops and miscellaneous labor, 1891; and a blacksmith, Goodwin and White, of Statesville, N.C., 1891-1893. Also included are miscellaneous Goodman family bills and receipts; deeds of other persons; and fourteen letters, 1922-1924, from a North Carolina black medical student, William D. Washington, at Howard University, Washington, D.C., to a friend, Janie Lee Norton, in Davidson, N.C. |
Creator | Powell, William Stevens, 1919-, collector. |
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, January 2010
This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
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Papers collected by William S. Powell pertaining to Iredell and adjacent counties of North Carolina. The bulk consists of family correspondence, 1867-1901, and account books of two generations of the Goodman family. Letters are personal correspondence of Tobias Goodman (1814-1880) of Amity, Iredell County; his wife Ellen; and his sons and a nephew, including a building materials merchant at Hillsboro, Ill., a railroad employee at Birmingham, Ala., a resident of Lavon, Tex., and others. Letters from Hillsboro, Ill., discuss weather, prices, wages, opportunity that led to leaving North Carolina, the high cost of food in Illinois, and homesickness. Other personal letters discuss farming and give family news, especially about illnesses, deaths, and estates. Account books, chiefly from Iredell County, are for general merchandise and lumber sales, 1853-1856; church contributions (perhaps Presbyterian), 1855-1856; farm crops and miscellaneous labor, 1891; and a blacksmith, Goodwin and White, of Statesville, N.C., 1891-1893. Also included are miscellaneous Goodman family bills and receipts; deeds of other persons; and fourteen letters, 1922-1924, from a North Carolina black medical student, William D. Washington, at Howard University, Washington, D.C., to a friend, Janie Lee Norton, in Davidson, N.C.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
Business correspondence and papers of Tobias Goodman (1814-1880) of Iredell County; personal correspondence of Tobias Goodman, his wife Ellen, who lived at Amity, N.C., after his death, and their sons Tobias M., J. L., A. E., and George Elmer, their nephew George B. King, and other second generation family members, 1853-1901; bills, receipts, and promissory notes, 1850s-1870s, of the Goodman family; miscellaneous deeds and other papers of Mecklenburg, Rowan, Iredell, and Davie counties, 1793-1898; three letters to Alice Carey Anderson of Davie County, N.C., 1897, 1898, and 1901; and fourteen letters from William D. Washington, an African-American medical student at Howard University, to Janie Lee Norton, a school teacher, in Davidson N.C., 1922-1924.
Folder 1 |
1793-1858 |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3300/1 |
Land grants, 1793Land grant to Peter Troutman in Rowan County, N.C., 27 November 1793, and land grant to Matthew McClure in Mecklenberg County, N.C., 14 December 1793. |
Folder 2 |
1860-1869 |
Folder 3 |
1870-1879 |
Folder 4 |
1880-1889 |
Folder 5 |
1890-1893 |
Folder 6 |
January-May 1894 |
Folder 7 |
June-July 1894 |
Folder 8 |
August-December 1894 |
Folder 9 |
1895 |
Folder 10 |
1896-1899 |
Folder 11 |
1900 |
Folder 12 |
1901 |
Folder 13 |
1922-1924 |
Folder 14 |
Bills, receipts, and promissory notes |
Folder 15 |
Undated |
Arrangement: chronological.
Folder 16 |
Folder number not used |
Oversize Volume SV-3300/1 |
Volume S-1: 1853-1854Day book with accounts for general merchandise for R. & L. Feimster, Liberty Hill, Iredell County, N.C. 268 pp. |
Folder 17 |
Volume 2: 1853-1856Daily accounts of Tobias Goodman with individuals for sawing, lumber sales and produce, 1855-1856, and miscellaneous accounts from 1853 and 1854. 30 pp. |
Folder 18 |
Volume 3: 1855, 1856, and 1890Memoranda including subscriptions to and accounts of Amity Church in 1855; subscriptions to Erskine College in 1856 and to Sunday School Books; scattered receipts; and a diary entry, 1890. 50 pp. |
Folder 19 |
Volume 4: 1891Unbound volume with records and accounts relating to the corn crop, the wheat crop, blacksmith work, hired labor, harness making, and the potato crop. 25 pp. |
Folder 20 |
Volume 5: 1891-1893Miscellaneous fragmentary accounts apparently of the blacksmith firm of Godwin and White, Statesville, N.C. 50 pp. |