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Size | 6 items |
Abstract | The Frank W. Tuttle Collection of Papers documents enslaved people, land, and other goods as financial transactions of the Harper family, who were white farmers, and others. The records include a deed of sale of house and land, 15 July 1786, by John Laughinghouse to Thomas Laughinghouse in Beaufort County, N.C.; a receipt, 4 March 1808, signed by R. Powell to Alexander Harper; a bill of sale, 11 February 1820, by I. Bradley of New Bern, N.C., to Alexander Harper; a bill of sale, 9 November 1847, documenting that Mary, an enslaved woman, and Evaline, an enslaved girl, were sold from the estate of Frances Harper's father in Pitt County, N.C., to Henry Wingate; and a record of auction, 1856(?), where an unnamed enslaved male child was sold and the Harper, Harris, and Wingate families were principal buyers of auction goods. There is also a notice, 1873, of the opening of Sarah R. Dawson's school. |
Creator | Tuttle, Frank W. (Frank Waldo), 1896-1983. |
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 2 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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Frank Waldo Tuttle (1896-1983) was a white professor of economics at the University of Florida.
Back to TopThe Frank W. Tuttle Collection of Papers documents enslaved people, land, and other goods as financial transactions of the Harper family, who were white farmers, and others. The records include a deed of sale of house and land, 15 July 1786, by John Laughinghouse to Thomas Laughinghouse in Beaufort County, N.C.; a receipt, 4 March 1808, signed by R. Powell to Alexander Harper; a bill of sale, 11 February 1820, by I. Bradley of New Bern, N.C., to Alexander Harper; a bill of sale, 9 November 1847, documenting that Mary, an enslaved woman, and Evaline, an enslaved girl, were sold from the estate of Frances Harper's father in Pitt County, N.C., to Henry Wingate; and a record of auction, 1856(?), where an unnamed enslaved male child was sold and the Harper, Harris, and Wingate families were principal buyers of auction goods. There is also a notice, 1873, of the opening of Sarah R. Dawson's school.
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