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Size | 36 items |
Abstract | The Munroe Demere d'Antignac Collection of Papers consist of several records documenting the trafficking of enslaved people: a valuation and division of estate, 1837(?) of James E. Long; a letter, 1840, requesting the extension of a hiring out contract for Matilda, an enslaved girl who worked as a house servant and was trafficked by her enslaver John Wood of Hertford; and a list of enslaved people, 1865, who were hired out from the estate of John Francis in Hertford-Edenton area. Other materials include a bond, three notes, a Revolutionary pension claim, and three estate papers, 1772-1837; two unrelated letters concerning an estate and a legal case, 1838; a tax notice, 1859, an estate inventory, 1864; and other records of individual court attendance and charges for Chatham County Superior Court, 1861-1867. |
Creator | D’Antignac, Munroe, 1905-1980. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, September 1996
Encoded by: Byte Managers, Inc., 2008
Revision by: Nancy Kaiser, April 2020, October 2022
This collection previously was unit 1 within the North Carolina Miscellaneous Papers (#1135-z). In April 2020, all nine units of North Carolina Miscellaneous Papers were separated into individual collections with revised description. North Carolina Miscellaneous Papers (#1135-z) originally was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
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Munroe Demere d'Antignac (1905-1980), a white resident of Griffin, Spaulding County, Georgia, collected these papers.
Back to TopThe Munroe Demere d'Antignac Collection of Papers consist of several records documenting the trafficking of enslaved people: a valuation and division of estate, 1837(?), with the names of the enslaved people who were claimed as the property of James E. Long, deceased; a letter, 11 September 1840, requesting the extension of a hiring out contract for Matilda, an enslaved girl who worked as a house servant for R. H. Smith and was trafficked by her enslaver John Wood of Hertford; and a list of enslaved people, 23 February 1865, whose labor, skills, and knowledge were hired out from the estate of John Francis in Hertford-Edenton area.
Other materials include a bond, three notes, a Revolutionary pension claim, and three estate papers, 1772-1837; two letters, 1838; a tax notice, 1859, an estate inventory, 1864; and other records of individual court attendance and charges for Chatham County Superior Court, 1861-1867. The first letter, 7 June 1838, is from George C. Mendenhall of James Town, Guilford County, N.C., to William Albertson, Perquimans County, regarding the estate of John Woodly and Joseph Tow (or Tom or Tone) Sr. The second letter, 7 December 1838, is from Thomas F. Jones of Raleigh to John Wood of Hertford, N.C., asking for a transcript of a law case and telling about local matters before the Assembly.
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Papers, 1772-1867Records of enlsavement include:
Other materials include:
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