Fenner Bryan Satterthwaite Papers, PC.1648

Fenner Bryan Satterthwaite (1813-1875) was born near Leechville, Beaufort County; married Annie E. Laughinghouse (ca. 1835); was elected to House of Representatives from Beaufort Co., 1836; settled on a farm in Pitt County, 1839; studied law with John S. Hawks, 1842; admitted to the NC Bar , in 1843. This small collection includes deeds, newspapers, obituaries, a broadside, book, and a pamphlet.

[Note: Manly Wade Wellman in Dead and Gone, p. 55 says that Satterthwaite studied law while in debtor's prison and later rose to immense legal and political success.] Satterthwaite also elected to House of Representatives from Pitt Co., 1848; and elected to Vance's council of state by the legislature in 1862. He was one of the defense lawyers at the murder trial of the Rev. George W. Carawan of Hyde County, 1853. His children were Fenner B. Satterthwaite, Martha Alice (Mrs. Joseph B. Stickney), and Thomas H. Satterthwaite, whose son F. Bryan Satterthwaite was in the buggy with General Bryan Grimes the night Grimes was murdered.

Arrangement of Papers:

Deeds: Beaufort County, Jarvis B. Harding, sheriff. To Fenner B. Satterthwaite, Pitt County, 620 acres, December 13, 1857.

Beaufort County, Joseph B. Stickney and Martha A. Stickney, Pitt County. To Anna E. Satterthwaite, wife of F. B. Satterthwaite, Beaufort Co., town lot in Washington, March 24, 1874.

Deeds (cont'd: Beaufort County, Hiram E. Stilley, Beaufort County. To F.B. Satterthwaite, Beaufort County, town lot, Washington, November 20, 1874.

Memorials:
Resolutions of Second Judicial District mourning loss of F. B. Satterthwaite, March 31, 1875. F[enner] S[atterthwaite] Stickney, Biographic Sketches of Fenner Bryan Satterthwaite together with Obituary Proceedings of the Washington Bar, etc. (Norfolk: Virginian Steam Print, 1887), with associated news­paper clipping.

Newspapers:
Washington Echo, April 6, 13, 1875
Washington Gazette, March 8, 1888, August 15, 1889
Winston, The Weekly Sentinel, July 15, 1886
Washington, The Evening Messenger, August 17, 1897
Washington Daily News, September 8, 1913
Washington Progress, September 4, 1913

Obituaries:
Rev. Fenner Satterthwaite Stickney, Monumental Church, Richmond, Va., 1899.
Pamphlet: H. A. London, Memorial Address on the Life and Services of General Bryan Grimes, Memorial Day, May 10, 1886, Raleigh.

Broadside:
Gazette Extra, n.d. "Judge Lynch. Parker Swings under the River Bridge. Vigilantes do their Work Saturday Night ...." [William A. Parker had been tried and acquitted for the murder of Gen. Bryan Grimes.]

Fenner Bryan Satterthwaite

William A. Parker

Fenner Satterthwaite Stickney

Grimes, Bryan

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