William Andrew Jeffreys (1817-1845) and Family Papers, PC.66
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- William Andrew Jeffreys (1817-1845) and Family Papers
- Call Number
- PC.66
- Creator
- Jeffreys family
- Date
- 1786-1883
- Extent
- 0.600 cubic feet
- Repository
- State Archives of North Carolina
Collection Overview
Papers of Jeffreys, Franklin Co. attorney and state senator, and of his uncle Robert
N. Jeffreys of Wake Co. Material relating to W. A. Jeffreys includes Franklin Co.
grand jury indictments and reports on roads (1839-1842); proposal for N.C. Literary,
Scientific, and Military Academy in Raleigh (1844); state election returns for Franklin
Co., 1844; printed circulars for Democratic State Comittee (1844) and David S. Reid
(1845); minutes of speaker election, General Assembly, 1844; resolutions about delegates
to National Democratic Convention 1844; and letters from state and local politicians
about public lands, tariff, national bank, annexation of Texas, Wake Co. election
(1838), elections of 1842 and 1844, and patronage. Democratic correspondents include
Congressman John R. J. Daniels, James B. Shepard, Sen. Romulus M. Saunders, Perrin
Busbee, William W. Holden, and Carter Braxton Harrison of Mississippi (1844). Family
papers consist of financial items, invitations, and letters about Chapel Hill, Hillsborough
Military Academy, Wake Forest (1861), and Confederate action near Petersburg (1864).
Robert N. Jeffreys papers (1803-1838) contain receipts and accounts for travel, doctor,
newspapers, tuition, horse breeding, and plantation operation. Papers of his wife
and sons (1826-1868) include recipes; hotel and boardinghouse bills and rent for house
and office in Raleigh (1839- 1842); essays on education, slavery, and internal improvements;
and letters relating to Hillsborough Academy, UNC, cockfighting, and religion in Wake
County (1833), slave hire, medical treatments, journey to Alabama and the Creek War
there (1835-1837), court of inquiry in Mexico and political opinions among troops
(1848), a journey from New York to Memphis (1850), and traveling to California in
1850 via Panama, working in San Francisco and prospecting for gold. Papers of the
Hunter family (1786-1832) include a 1786 Wake County deed from Isaac to Jacob Hunter,
slave bills of sale (1821-1827), and assorted financial and legal papers. Papers (1804-1821)
relating to Raleigh Academy and trustee William Peace concern finances, subscribers
for a building for the Female Department, and correspondence about tuition.
Box 66.3. Also includes a ciphering book (copy book) belonging to William A. Jeffreys,
and relating to Franklin Academy, 1830, with rules and examples of rule of applied
mathematics. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in North America, students
over the age of ten prepared ciphering books to use in their academic study. The books
were handwritten, as is this example. Inserted in this volume is a page entitled "Rules
of this Seminary for the Year 1830," with rules continuing to the end of the reverse
side. The document purports to be the "Rules of Seminary" that William A. Jeffreys
attended and includes the name of the teacher, L. Wright. Near the end of the book
is a pencil and charcoal drawing of a dog with a collar. Historical note: William
A. Jeffreys, b. circa. 1817, was a son of William M. Jeffreys. He died at the age
of 28 and was buried in a hand-chiseled boulder on the family land.
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