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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Frank W. Tuttle Collection of Papers #70066-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [Note: Previously was unit 2 within the North Carolina Miscellaneous Papers #1135-z.]

Acquisitions Information

Received from Frank W. Tuttle of Gainesville, Fla., in March 1969 (Acc. 20200407.2).

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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.

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Beaufort County (N.C.)--History.
• Estates (Law)--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Harper family.
• Pitt County (N.C.)--History.
• Real property--North Carolina--History.
• Slave bills of sale--North Carolina.
• Slavery--United States--History--19th century--Sources.
• Tuttle, Frank W. (Frank Waldo), 1896-1983

Frank Waldo Tuttle (1896-1983) was a white professor of economics at the University of Florida.

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.