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Size | 1.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 200 items) |
Abstract | The Knox family is from Rowan County, N.C., where they have lived since the 1740s. The Knox Family Papers contain business and legal receipts for the Knox family through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but also includes account books, indentures, intestate succession documents, slave lists, and receipts for blacksmithing, ministerial services, and other everyday purchases. Items of particular interest include a 1772 letter of recommendation for John Knox, a list of slave birthdates, 1803-1869, and four handwritten slave receipts. |
Creator | Knox (Family : Rowan County, N.C.) |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
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The Knox family is from Rowan County, N.C., where they have lived since the 1740s.
John Knox (1739-1802) was married to Hannah Reid and had eight children, including Margaret, George (1774-1869), and John.
Robert Knox (1804-1885) was the great-nephew of John Knox. He was the father of James Wilson Knox (1854-1926), who was the father of Robert Howard Knox (1881-1961).
Back to TopThe Knox Family Papers contain business and legal receipts for the Knox family through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but also includes account books, indentures, intestate succession documents, slave lists, and receipts for blacksmithing, ministerial services, and other everyday purchases. Items of particular interest include a 1772 letter of recommendation for John Knox, a list of slave birthdates, 1803-1869, and four handwritten slave receipts.
Back to TopArrangement: Chronological.
Primarily business and legal receipts for the Knox family through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but also includes account books, indentures, intestate succession documents, slave lists, newspaper clippings, and receipts for blacksmithing, ministerial services, and other everyday purchases. Items of particular interest include a 1772 letter of recommendation for John Knox, a list of slave birthdates, 1803-1869, and four handwritten slave receipts.
Folder 1 |
1764-1787 |
Folder 2 |
Letter of recommendation, 1772Contains a letter of recommendation for John Knox. |
Folder 3 |
Slave receipt, 1774Contains a slave receipt for a girl name Yarrow. |
Folder 4 |
1788 |
Folder 5 |
1789-1796 |
Folder 6 |
circa 1800s |
Folder 7 |
1800-1815 |
Folder 8 |
List of slave names and bithdates, 1803-1864 |
Folder 9 |
1819 |
Folder 10 |
1833-1836 |
Folder 11 |
1841-1849 |
Folder 12 |
Slave receipt, 1842Contains a document certifying the necessity of selling John Knox's estate to pay his debts. Describes the sale of a ten-year-old boy named Sampson, who was sold for two hundred thirty-seven dollars on a credit of twelve months to Robert Knox. |
Folder 13 |
Slave receipts, 1845Includes a document announcing a public auction to pay the debts of "John N. Knox" at the time of his death, and included the sale of a six-or-seven-year-old boy named Andy to George Knox for the price of two hundred six dollars and fifty cents. The other document states that Margaret Knox sold to George Knox for "one hundred dollars in hand" and "for various other considersations not herein specified" a ten-year-old girl named Dorcus. |
Folder 14 |
1850-1859 |
Folder 15 |
Slave receipt, 1854Describes hiring a negro boy for nine months. |
Folder 16 |
1860-1869 |
Folder 17 |
List of sharecroppers, 1867List of sharecroppers working for Robert Knox. |
Folder 18 |
1871-1872 |
Folder 19 |
1880-1888 |
Folder 20 |
1890-1899 |
Folder 21 |
James Wilson Knox account book, 1891-1899 |
Folder 22 |
The People's Mutual Benevolent Association, 1900-1906Includes life insurance policy document for James Wilson Knox and postcards, which appear to be receipts for payments on life insurance policies. |
Folder 23 |
1901-1909 |
Folder 24 |
1910-1919 |
Folder 25 |
Robert Howard Knox account book, 1920-1935 |
Folder 26 |
1921-1929 |
Folder 27 |
1930-1937 |
Folder 28 |
Newspaper clippings, 1930s-1980s |
Folder 29 |
1942-1943 |
Folder 30 |
Church programs, 1952, 1991 |
Folder 31 |
Letters, 1964-1977 |
Folder 32 |
Notes, 1969-1979 |