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 debts (folder 138). 17 October, a will of Dennis Grady, in Wake County, N.C., includes Cherry (a woman), Anderson (boy), Penney (girl), Ben (adult man), Kitty (adult woman), Isham, Cook, and Vilet, all of whom were enslaved. The will indicates that the enslaved people, or profits from their trafficking, would be inherited by his Meaderies grandchildren (folder 138). 1832, a bill in which Anthony, Jim, Daniel, Grace, and Madison, who were enslaved by Chasey Pearce, are mentioned. The bill was filed by Cullen Tolton in the Court of Equity for Johnston County, N.C. (folder 138). Other materials include letters from I. T. Haywood and William Henry Haywood, Jr., and dry goods accounts of Eliza E. Haywood. Pension petition, Revolutionary War Service, of John Walker. Obituary of Elizabeth Araph (Williams) Haywood, who died 21 July 1832, written by Thomas Burgess Haywood. August 1832, of Elizabeth Miller to Washington Haywood, seeking assistance from the court regarding her husband Merrel Miller's physical abuse and abandonment for the Vandagriff family. 20 August, Charles Manly (governor of North Carolina 1849-1851) to Eliza E. Haywood on the execution of her mother's will. 19 December, D. W. Stone, Edenton, to Alfred Moore Haywood concerning the renting of land.