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[Identification of item], in the Brock Family Papers #05778, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Larry Sappington in July 2018 (Acc. 103385).

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• Agriculture--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Brock family (Jones County, N.C.)
• Brock, Benjamin, Sr., 1829-1905.
• Families--North Carolina.
• Jones County (N.C.)
• Mathematics--Problems, exercises, etc.
• Plantations--North Carolina.
• Slave records--North Carolina.
• Slavery--North Carolina.

The Brock family of Jones County, N.C., were white farmers who owned land and enslaved people until the Civil War. During Reconstruction and until the early 1900s, the Brock family hired hands and rented out land to sharecroppers, some of whom previously were enslaved on the farm. Benjamin Brock Sr. (1829-1905) also served as an executor for the estates of several individuals and as the guardian for several other underage heirs.

The Brock Family Papers, 1801-1904, pertain to the Brock Family of Jones County, N.C., who were white farmers who owned land and enslaved people until the Civil War. Most of the papers are related to Benjamin Brock Sr. (1829-1905). The earliest papers in the collection date to 1801, however the bulk of the collection spans the 1840s to the 1880s. Most of the collection is accounting records, including receipts for goods, medical, and other services, chiefly procured in New Bern, N.C.; estate settlements; deeds; indentures; and bills of sale of enslaved people. Records of enslaved people often include name, gender, and estimated age. Other records document Brock's household purchases and how he educated his children. Of note is a cipher book. At least 15 memorandum books detail Brock's farming habits, with receipts and notes about other plantation activities (1853-1878; 1882-1904). Reconstruction era and later records indicate that formerly enslaved people worked as hired hands and sharecroppers on Brock's properties. The Kinsey, Franks, and Koonce families are also documented.

• Oversize Paper Folder (OPF-05778/1)