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 include letters from David Stone, John Steele, W. H. Hill, Nathaniel Macon, Benjamin Williams, and Richard Dobbs Spaight about actions in Congress, relations with France, and the presidential elections; letter, 16 February, from William R. Davie concerning his mission to France; letters from David Stone, Hugh Williamson, Jos. Ross, Joseph Caldwell, P. Henderson, and Thos. [?] Rogers about University affairs--hiring a new president and new teachers, payment of board by students, arrangements for a new building, etc.; letter, 26 November, to Haywood from John Davis (or Daves) about digging up family coffins (possibly of Haywood's wife Sally, who died in 1791 and his son Lee, who died in 1795) and making better arrangements for them in keeping with Haywood's orders; letter, 1 December, from "W N" in medical school in Philadelphia to Miss S. Nelson, Yorkstown, Va.