Haywood Family Papers

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The Haywood family of Raleigh, N.C., included such prominent members as John Haywood (1755–1827), state treasurer, 1787–1827, member of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina, 1789–1827, and first mayor of Raleigh; his wife Eliza Williams Haywood (b. 1781), member of the Raleigh Female Tract Society; his son George Washington Haywood (1802–1890), state attorney for Wake County, N.C., and plantation owner in Greene County, Ala.; John's daughter Eliza Eagles Haywood (1798–1877); his son Edmund Burke Haywood (1825-1894), surgeon in the Confederate army; his grandson Ernest Haywood (1860–1946), lawyer in Raleigh; and his nephew by marriage Alfred Williams (fl. 1825–1860), partner in the drugstore firm of Williams & Haywood, Inc., and plantation owner in Marengo County, Ala. The collection includes correspondence, business papers, legal documents, medical records, account books, pictures, and other items documenting the lives of members of the Haywood family and their relatives, friends, and associates. Many items relate to the career of John Haywood as North Carolina state treasurer, including much material on banking in the state and on state and national politics, 1790s–1820s. Other items relate to Haywood's plantation in Edgecombe County, N.C. There are also letters concerning students and various affairs at the University of North Carolina, 1790s–1880s. Personal correspondence especially documents activities of Eliza Williams Haywood, her mother and sisters, and her children, circa 1800–1830. After 1830, many of the papers relate to the plantation and legal affairs of George Washington Haywood and the plantation affairs of his cousin Alfred Williams. A number of papers and volumes relate to Edmund Burke Haywood, including records he kept of Confederate hospitals that he supervised in the Raleigh area. Other volumes include household accounts, plantation journals and accounts, merchant account books, guest registers for the Yarborough House hotel in Raleigh, recipe books, school notebooks, a volume, 1820s, of reflections on the social role of women and related matters, and "The Religion of the Bible and K W County Compared," by James Reid, 1769.

Works

folder 003: Correspondence, 1788–1789

folder 003: Correspondence, 1788–1789

Chiefly financial records and correspondence of John Haywood for his work as a commissioner in Tarborough to purchase tobacco for the state of North Carolina and as state treasurer of North Carolina. Also included are items relating to Haywood's personal financial affairs: bills for goods,...

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41 pages: 53% complete (86% transcribed, 32% needs review)
folder 012: Correspondence, January–May 1795

folder 012: Correspondence, January–May 1795

Enslaved people are documented in a will, 6 March, in which Eliza Kennon bequeathed three enslaved people, Dick, Lucy, and Lucy's son David, to her son William Kennon; an enslaved girl Hannah, who was the daughter of Dianna, to her granddaughter Elizabeth Warren Kennon; an enslaved boy named Ben...

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53 pages: 9% complete (30% transcribed, 21% needs review)
folder 030: Correspondence, June–October 1800

folder 030: Correspondence, June–October 1800

June 16 and 26, a legal agreement concerning Saul, an enslaved man who died in an accident while working on raising a house for John Haywood in Wake County, N.C. Saul was enslaved by W. Reese Brewer. Other materials include letters from David Stone, John Steele, W. H. Hill, Nathaniel Macon,...

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61 pages: 1% complete (20% transcribed, 18% needs review)
folder 031a: Correspondence, November–December 1800

folder 031a: Correspondence, November–December 1800

November 22, a bill of sale in which Cate, an enslaved woman, and her children David and Montford, were sold by Nathaniel Lane of Wake County, N.C., to John Haywood. Cate, David, and Montford previously had been enslaved by Mary Lane, and before that her husband Joel Lane. Other materials...

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38 pages: 2% complete (11% transcribed, 8% needs review)
folder 132: Correspondence, January–June 1830

folder 132: Correspondence, January–June 1830

Bills of sale in which enslaved people were purchased from the estate of John Haywood by John S. Haywood, George M. Haywood, B. A. Barham, Wyatt Harrison, Eliza E. Haywood, and William H. Haywood (folders 132-133). March 21, an indenture in which Dave (about 33 years old), Tom (about 38 years...

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57 pages: 0% complete (2% transcribed, 2% needs review)
folder 133: Correspondence, July–December 1830

folder 133: Correspondence, July–December 1830

Bills of sale in which enslaved people were purchased from the estate of John Haywood by John S. Haywood, George M. Haywood, B. A. Barham, Wyatt Harrison, Eliza E. Haywood, and William H. Haywood (folders 132-133). August 15, an indenture, in which a group of enslaved people were conveyed by...

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40 pages: 2% complete (13% transcribed, 10% needs review)
folder 134: Correspondence, January–July 1831

folder 134: Correspondence, January–July 1831

January 1, a valuation in which enslaved people are documented: Sam, Jerry, Green, Mary and her child Simon, Sceny, Boen, Ceity, Jane, Shade. The valuation was compiled for the heirs of John Williams (folder 134). A bill of sale indicating that enslaved people were purchased by John Steele...

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48 pages: 2% complete (2% transcribed)
folder 138: Correspondence, August–December 1832

folder 138: Correspondence, August–December 1832

August 12 and 16, legal documents in which heirs Rebecca Tucker, Joseph Tucker, William R. Tucker, and Augustus Tucker of Pleasant Tucker and Mary Tucker of Carroll County, Tenn., sought remedies in court for losses incurred when the courts of Wake County sold enslaved people to settle estate...

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64 pages: 0% complete (0% transcribed)
folder 146: Correspondence, January–May 1836

folder 146: Correspondence, January–May 1836

March 8, a will that documents Ned (about 40 years old), Fereby (about 35 years old), and her children Jack (about 10 years old) and Sam (about 7 years old) April 23 and May 20, letters in which Allen, a man enslaved by Harrison Terrell, was mentioned as a victim of an attempted lynching....

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95 pages: 2% complete (2% transcribed)
folder 156: Correspondence, January–May 1839

folder 156: Correspondence, January–May 1839

January 4, a letter about Rachel, an enslaved woman who had self-emancipated to Raleigh, N.C. The letter is from Joseph I. Dillard, Hinds City, Miss., to William Hutchins (folder 156). March 17, a letter in which Henry, an enslaved person, was offered as security against a claim, with the...

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72 pages: 2% complete (13% transcribed, 10% needs review)
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