Record Series and Collections

1834 - 1867

By provisions of his last will and testament Moses Griffin of New Bern, N.C., converted his estate into a trust upon his death in 1816, and directed his executors to use the profits from the trust to purchase land in the town, to erect a schoolhouse, ...

The greater part of this box of papers relates to plantation operations of Thomas Pollock Devereux, especially as reflected in his accounts with the Norfolk trading firm of J. M. Smith and Brother, 1858-1868. The accounts and other plantation-related ...

Few of these papers relate to plantation operations, though they do include the 1844 and 1848 agreements pertaining to Runiroy plantation on Roanoke River in Bertie County, an 1867 contract with freedmen, a few plantation accounts, 1844-1866, and an ...

1712 - 1892