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Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 270 items) |
Abstract | Chiefly items relating to the buying and selling of land in Edgecombe County, N.C. Some of the items are directly related to members of the Toole family, but others appear to have been collected by family members, who were perhaps attempting to gather evidence to be used in property disputes. Included are materials documenting ownership of land by members of the Bellamy, Blount, Braswell, Cotten, and Nash families, among others. Also included are a few bills, receipts, wills, and legal documents relating to court actions, chiefly property disputes. During the 1840s and 1850s, there are a small number of slave bills of sale. |
Creator | Toole (Family : Edgecombe County, N.C.) |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Roslyn Holdzkom, March 1992
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, January 2010
Materials received in 1948 were orginally accessioned as Edgecombe County Miscellaneous Papers (#1504). These materials were transferred to the Toole Family Papers in 1980, after it was established that they had originally been owned by family members.
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Among the members of the Toole family of Edgecombe County, N.C., were Laurence Toole (1708-1761) and his wife, Sabra Irwin Toole (1719-1789), of Shiloh Plantation, which was located about three miles up the Tar River from Tarboro. Their son Henry Irwin Toole (1750-1790) married Elizabeth Haywood, with whom he had daughters: Mary (1787-1958), who married Theophilus Parker (1775-1849) of Tarboro; and Arabella (1783-1860), who married James West Clark (1779-1843).
Mary and Theophilus Parker's daughter was Elizabeth Toole (1820-1895), who married the Reverend Joseph Blount Cheshire and had Annie Gray Cheshire, who married S. S. Nash. Catherine Caroline was also a daughter of Theophilus and Mary; she married the Reverend Robert Brent Drane (1797 [or 1800]-1862).
Arabella and James West Clark's daughter was Mary Sumner, who married Geroge Thomas and had Jordan Sumner.
Back to TopChiefly items relating to the buying and selling of land in Edgecombe County, N.C. Some of the items are directly related to members of the Toole family, but others appear to have been collected by family members, who were perhaps attempting to gather evidence to be used in property disputes. Included are materials documenting ownership of land by members of the Bellamy, Blount, Braswell, Cotten, and Nash families, among others. Also included are a few bills, receipts, wills, and legal documents relating to court actions, chiefly property disputes. During the 1840s and 1850s, there are a small number of slave bills of sale.
Materials have been roughly sorted by decade.
Back to TopFolder 1 |
1756-1779 |
Folder 2 |
1780-1799 |
Folder 3 |
1800-1809 |
Folder 4 |
1810-1819 |
Folder 5 |
1820-1829 |
Folder 6 |
1830-1839 |
Folder 7 |
1840-1849Includes several bills of sale for enslaved people. |
Folder 8 |
1850-1859Includes several bills of sale for enslaved people. |
Folder 9 |
1850-1869Includes several bills of sale for enslaved people. |
Folder 10 |
1870-1874 |
Folder 11 |
1875-1879 |
Folder 12 |
1880-1884 |
Folder 13 |
1885-1889 |
Folder 14 |
1890-1894 |
Folder 15 |
Undated |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-4252/1 |
Oversize deeds and indentures |
Extra Oversize Paper Folder X-OPF-4252/1 |
Extra-oversize deeds and indentures |