John Allen (1749-1826) Papers, PC.1467

Menu

John Allen (1749-1826) Papers, PC.1467

Descriptive Summary

Title
John Allen (1749-1826) Papers
Call Number
PC.1467
Creator
Unknown
Date
1756-1877, 1900-1904
Repository
State Archives of North Carolina

Quick Links

    Restrictions on Access & Use

    Access Restrictions

    This collection is available for research but certain use restrictions apply. See use restrictions note.

    Use Restrictions

    These materials are loaned to the State Archives and have not been accessioned into the Archives' custody. They are available to researchers and may be copied for reference purposes, but requests for publication, loans, or any other use, should be referred to the Registrar.

    Collection Overview

    Papers of the family of John Allen of Alamance Co., including Granville land grant (Orange Co., 1756) and copy of will (Chester Co., Pa., 1769) of his father John, Sr.; grants, plats, and deed for land in Orange and Chatham counties (1789-1797); tax receipts (1800-1826); account books for goods and services (Deep River, Guilford Co., 1772- 1808); almanac with notes on weather (1817); drafts of wills; and estate papers (1826-1849). Papers of son William Allen include tax receipts (1826-1866), Orange Co. deed for mining rights (1844), and general merchandise daybook and ledger (1827-1864, 1900-1905) also containing record of marriages (1841-1843) and some labor accounts. Family letters include several from tinsmith in Fayetteville (1828-1829), and many from Quaker relatives in Indiana (1824-1877) about family, local news, wages, the railroad and internal improvements, a congressional election (1847), preacher to Negroes (1847), Quaker meetings, and migration further west, with letter describing Kansas (1870). Also Randolph Co. estate papers of Samuel Stout (1801-1802); agreement with hired laborer (1811); papers relating to schools at Rock Spring, Deep River, and Salem, (1815-1816, n.d.); papers of Deep River Society and the Logician Society (n.d.); and medical recipes of Rachel Stout Allen. Genealogical information concerns connections by marriage with Hermon Husband and Simon Dixon. See also Mf.P. 77.

    Contents of the Collection

    Subject Headings

  1. Allen, John
  2. Allen Family
  3. Allen, William
  4. Allen, Rachel Stout
  5. Husband, Hermon
  6. Dixon, Simon
  7. Allen, John, Sr.
  8. United States. Congress
  9. Granville Land Grants
  10. Land
  11. Taxation
  12. Almanacs
  13. Administration of estates
  14. Consumer Goods
  15. Stores, Retail
  16. Merchandise
  17. Marriage
  18. Labor
  19. Tin
  20. Artisans
  21. Quakers
  22. Clergy
  23. Preaching
  24. Railroads
  25. Internal improvements
  26. Elections
  27. Wages
  28. Emigration and Immigration
  29. Schools
  30. African Americans
  31. Alamance County (N.C.)
  32. Orange County (N.C.)
  33. Chatham County (N.C.)
  34. Randolph County (N.C.)
  35. Guilford County (N.C.)
  36. Chester County (Pa.)
  37. Indiana
  38. Kansas
  39. Rock Spring
  40. Deep River
  41. Salem
  42. Fayetteville (N.C.)

    43. Acquisitions Information

    Deposited by Miss Beulah O. Allen, Snow Camp, N.C. to Division of Historic Sites and Museums, June 15, 1967; received to Archives, August 5, 1970.