Galloway Family Papers, 1783-1929

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Summary

Creator:
Galloway (Family : Rockingham County, N.C.)
Abstract:

Members of the Galloway family of Scotland, Rockingham County, N.C., and Maury County, Tenn., were chiefly merchants and land speculators.

The collection includes letters, deeds, wills, indentures, and other items relating to various members of the Galloway family. Included is a 1783 letter from Charles Galloway in Glasgow, Scotland, to James Galloway in Rockingham County, N.C., about trade between the two localities; a 1788 letter to James Galloway from a Wilmington, N.C., merchant about local and international trade; two 1817 letters from Marion Galloway at school in Warrenton, N.C., to her parents in Rockingham County about her progress at school; a 16-page equity action written by Robert Galloway in 1822 that summarizes the activities of Galloway and Company, merchants, from 1778 to 1822; and various deeds, bills of sale, and other papers that document the family's ownership of property, chiefly in Rockingham County, N.C., and Maury County, Tenn. The addition of August 2010 is a double-entry general account ledger from Galloway and Company with a listing of about 500 accounts and documenting the business activites, property holdings, and other ventures of the company. An entry on page 21 of the ledger shows that Galloway and Company accepted slaves and slave labor as payment for debts.

Extent:
20 items
Language:
Materials in English
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Background

Biographical / historical:

Members of the Galloway family of Scotland, Rockingham County, N.C., and Maury County, Tenn., were chiefly merchants and land speculators.

Scope and content:

The collection includes letters, deeds, wills, indentures, and other items relating to various members of the Galloway family. Included is a 1783 letter from Charles Galloway in Glasgow, Scotland, to James Galloway in Rockingham County, N.C., about trade between the two localities; a 1788 letter to James Galloway from a Wilmington, N.C., merchant about local and international trade; two 1817 letters from Marion Galloway at school in Warrenton, N.C., to her parents in Rockingham County about her progress at school; a 16-page equity action written by Robert Galloway in 1822 that summarizes the activities of Galloway and Company, merchants, from 1778 to 1822; and various deeds, bills of sale, and other papers that document the family's ownership of property, chiefly in Rockingham County, N.C., and Maury County, Tenn. The addition of August 2010 is a double-entry general account ledger from Galloway and Company with a listing of about 500 accounts and documenting the business activites, property holdings, and other ventures of the company. An entry on page 21 of the ledger shows that Galloway and Company accepted slaves and slave labor as payment for debts.

The Addition of August 2010 contains a double-entry general account ledger from Galloway & Company. The ledger contains a listing of about 500 accounts, and documents the business activites, property holdings, and other ventures of Galloway & Company. An entry on page 21 of the ledger also shows that Galloway & Company accepted slaves and slave labor as payment for debts.

Acquisition information:

Received from Frances Anderton of Winchester, Tenn., and W. D. Galloway of Darnestown, Md., in October 1991.

Addition of August 2010 (Acc. 101331) purchased from Michael Brown Rare Books, Philadelphia, Pa.

Processing information:

Processed by: Roslyn Holdzkom, December 1991

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

Addition of August 2010 processed by: Martin Gengenbach, December 2010

There are typed transcriptions, made by the donor, of several of the documents.

Sensitive materials statement:

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Access and use

Restrictions to access:

No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to use:

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

No usage restrictions.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], in the Galloway Family Papers #4591-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of this collection:
Louis Round Wilson Library
200 South Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27515
Contact:
(919) 962-3765
wilsonlibrary@unc.edu