Ernest Haywood Collection of Haywood Family Papers,

 1752-1967 ([original](http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/h/Haywood,Ernest.html)) ([raw](?raw))

About 2700 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Chiefly professional and business papers of George Washington Haywood, second son of John Haywood, and of Alfred Williams, John Haywood's nephew, with correspondence and other items concerning many other individuals and matters. George Washington Haywood (1802-1890) was state attorney for Wake County, N.C. Alfred Williams of Raleigh and Marengo County, Ala., was an attorney and plantation owner. There are letters and other items of the following members of the Haywood family: Eliza Eagles (Betsy) Haywood, Alfred Moore Haywood, Fabius Julius Haywood, Edmund Burke Haywood, Rebecca Jane Haywood Hall (married to Albert G. Hall), John Steele Haywood, William Davie Haywood, Thomas Burgess Haywood, William Henry Haywood, Jr., and a number of cousins who did not bear the Haywood name.

See also Series 6, which includes many volumes dating from the period covered by this Series.

The papers of George Washington Haywood consist of letters to him from clients of Wake, Franklin, Chatham, and Johnston counties; legal documents--indentures, wills, deeds, bonds, court or trial dockets for Wake County Court and, beginning in 1835, letters to him from his brother John Steele Haywood who, with George, formed a partnership that owned a plantation in Greene County, Alabama. John lived on the Alabama plantation and apparently had a direct hand in the management of the farming operations, often acting as his own overseer. His letters to his brother George kept the latter informed about the enslaved people and the conditions on the plantation--crops, prices, etc. George Washington Haywood's letters from clients and legal documents often bear the names of Haywood cousins, friends, and neighbors in Wake and surrounding counties, such as Whitaker, Poole, Boylan, Yarborough, Holloman, Goodwin, and others. During these years, he appears to have had three or more law partners, including Thomas W. Johnston, David W. Stone, and a Mr. Miller.

The papers of Alfred Williams, cousin of the Haywood brothers, are merged with, but not related to, George Washington Haywood's papers. Williams' father and Haywood's mother were brother and sister. In partnership with Dr. Fabius Julius Haywood of Raleigh, a younger brother of George Washington, and his own brother John R. Williams, Alfred had for many years operated a drug firm and general merchandise store, Williams & Haywood, Inc. There are a number of business items of this firm and correspondence to the firm from the early 1830s from various physicians of eastern North Carolina, usually requesting drugs and medicines. About 1833, this partnership purchased land from a Houston family in Marengo County, Ala. From this point on, correspondence and business items of the merchant partnership no longer appear in the papers, although the firm continued for some years.

Alfred Williams moved to Alabama to operate the plantation. He accumulated wealth through enslavement of ninety-one people and by acquiring more land. Lists of the people he enslaved, as well as his accounts, tax lists, bills and receipts, correspondence with cotton commission merchants and overseers, and items on plantation business are present in the papers. Williams married about 1850 and returned to Raleigh to spend the greater part of each year, leaving the management of his plantation to a series of overseers with whom he corresponded. A deed, dated 4 January 1856, indicated that he bought more than 700 acres of land west of Raleigh.

There were a number of letters to Alfred Williams in Raleigh, N.C., and Linden, Alabama, in the early 1850s from his cousin, J. J. Williams. J. J. Williams (who was at Butler and Pushmataka in Choctaw County, Ala., in 1851 and 1852; at Prairie Plains and Anderson in Grimes County, Texas, in 1852 and 1853; and at Centerville in Leon County, Texas, in 1854) chiefly wrote about his financial difficulties and his efforts to sell land he owned in Texas to pay off his creditors, one of whom was Alfred Williams. While in Alabama, he also wrote about the progress of his crops and other plantation business. There are letters from several other individuals, including F. W. Harmes and Thomas Affleck in 1853, to Williams about the sale of the Texas property.

In addition to these two parallel but unrelated series of papers, there are letters of Alfred Moore Haywood, chiefly to his brother Edmund Burke Haywood, who was a physician in Raleigh after his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania, and also to his brother George Washington Haywood and his sister Betsy. These letters begin on 1 August 1856, in Galveston, Texas, and were written by Alfred Moore Haywood after he had killed a man named Smith during a fight in the city of Raleigh. There were witnesses to the fight and Haywood fled to Texas and thence to Mexico. His letters to his relatives describe his wanderings and sufferings. He finally settled in Matamoros, Mexico, leaving his Raleigh property and the people he enslaved there to his brother's management. He was 52 years old at the time.

The papers also contain about fourteen letters between members of the Scott family of New Bern and Raleigh, N.C. These are chiefly letters from Guion Scott to his brother Lawrence W. Scott, who was attempting to establish a practice of some sort (presumably medicine) in Raleigh. The final letter of this group is one from Charles G. Scott to George W. Haywood dated 5 August 1857. Otherwise, the Scott letters are apparently unrelated to the Haywood papers.

Folder 132-133

Folder 132

Folder 133

Correspondence, 1830

Folder 132: January-June 1830

Folder 133: July-December 1830

Records of enslavement and/or free people of color:

• January 16, April 5, April 8, June 3, July 27, 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 old), Fanny (about 39 years old), Annette (about 26 years old) and her child Emeline (about 6 months old), Mary (about 12 years old), and Emily (about 10 years old), all of whom were enslaved, were deeded from Henry A. Donaldson of Fayetteville, N.C., to Jesse and Stephen Birdsall (folder 133).
• May 23, a letter from an unknown correspondent in Terre Haute to George W. Haywood in Raleigh, describing the journey to Indiana, the water, and timber. The author contrasts the sentiments of the population where slavery no longer existed with the social customs of the enslaving class (folder 132).
• August 15, an indenture, in which a group of enslaved people were conveyed by John McLeran and Hugh McLaurin, acting as trustees of Jesse and Stephen Birdsall, to the Company of the Bank of the United States (folder 133).
• August 16, a legal document in which people enslaved by H. A. Donaldson and sold at a sheriff's sale were part of a dispute between William H. Haywood and William Donaldson (folder 133).
• December 1, a letter in which Green, Jerry, Simon, Boen, Sceny, Ceity, and Jane are listed. Several names have "blanket" next to their name; all of the individuals are associated with another name and what looks to be a dollar amount, which suggests that their labor was hired out. The letter is from J. Blake and Son in Fayetteville, N.C., to Benj. S. King in Raleigh, N.C. (folder 133).
• December, a legal document in which an unnamed Black man who was hired as a blacksmith but turned out not to have the skill set was the subject of a dispute filed by Durham Hall (folder 132).

Other notable materials are legal correspondence and papers of George Washington Haywood; similar items continue until 1860. February, William Henry Haywood, Jr., to his cousin Eliza Eagles Haywood (Betsy). 7 May, letter of introduction from John B. Muse of Washington, D.C., to Fabius Julius Haywood introducing Dr. Alexander Telfair. 23 May, Theo A. Snow to George W. Haywood, describing Terre Haute, Indiana, where he was visiting. 5 June, William H. Haywood, Jr., to his cousin Betsy with a statement and discussion of her indebtedness. 6 August, letter from E. Fondo, dressmaker for Miss E. Haywood. A number of legal papers of the 1830s bear the name of Birdsall. 13 December, W. Latimer of Edenton to Thomas W. Johnston (partner of George W. Haywood), concerning a sale of property. 21 December, William H. Haywood to Betsy Haywood giving personal advice.

Folder 134-136

Folder 134

Folder 135

Folder 136

Correspondence, 1831

Folder 134: January-July 1831

Folder 135: August 1831

Folder 136: September-December 1831

Records of enslavement and/or free people of color:

• 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).
• February 4, bill of sale indicating that enslaved people were purchased by John Steele Haywood and George W. Haywood from the John Haywood estate (folder 134)
• February 22, a letter from William H. Haywood Jr. in Raleigh, N.C., to Eliza (Betsy), regarding financial transactions required to cover her debts related to the purchase of enslaved people. He referenced the scandal that involved both their families, the unfortunate state of his father's "pecuniary affairs with the State Bank," and how young Haywood was forced to buy some of this father's property (folder 134).
• March 30, a letter in which an enslaved girl and the eight people who descended from her in the following 40 years became the center of a legal dispute related to a mortgage placed on her 20-30 years earlier. The letter is from Elisha Siles in Chatham County, N.C., to George W. Haywood in Raleigh, N.C. (folder 134).

Other materials include letters, 18 January, Judge Henry Potter, of Fayetteville, N.C., to Dr. Hudson M. Cave, Chapel Hill, about collecting a debt; 16 February, Marshall T. Pole of Charlotte, N.C., to John B. Johns or G. W. Haywood, about a legal matter; 19 April, Robert McKoy of Clinton, N.C., with an order for a Wedgewood mortar and pestle and smallpox vaccine from Williams & Haywood, Inc.; 29 April, I. T.(?) Haywood of Smithfield, N.C., to his cousin George W. Haywood about the latter running for political office and his chances; 30 May, Dr. J. T. Gilliam of Fayetteville, to Williams & Haywood, Inc. about the fire that had destroyed a large section of the town on the preceding day in which the drug supplies having been destroyed, Gilliam ordered supplies listing those most needed; August, advertisements sent out by Eliza Eagles Asaph Williams Haywood to state legislators offering rooms to rent during their stay in Raleigh; 1 August, William H. Haywood, Jr., on the death of his nephew, son of his sister Charity Manly; September-December, business letters of Williams & Haywood, Inc., from William Pickett of "near Hillsboro," M. E. Manly of New Bern, John T. Johnston of Hillsboro, Henry T. Clark of Tarboro, and other items from northern business firms.

Folder 137-138

Folder 137

Folder 138

Correspondence, 1832

Folder 137: January-July 1832

Folder 138: August-December 1832

Records of enslavement and/or free people of color:

• 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.

Folder 139-140

Folder 139

Folder 140

Correspondence, 1833

Folder 139: January-June 1833

Folder 140: July-December 1833

Includes an inventory of drugs purchased from Dr. Rufus Haywood by Williams & Haywood, Inc. Part of an address (4 pages) by William Gaston. 10 June, Rebecca Jane Haywood to William B. Meares, Wilmington, attorney, about her Wilmington property recently inherited from her mother. 31 August, copy of the will of William Whitley of Wake County. 8 November, Dennis O'Bryan of Warren County to G. W. Haywood about renting the latter his "plantation on Swift Creek." Scattered letters and papers from or relating to Joseph Small of Pittsboro run through the early 1830s, mainly relating to his debts. 18 December, Thomas Burgess Haywood, Raleigh, to "Dear Sister" visiting in Wilmington, mainly a facetious letter about social life in Raleigh.

Folder 141-142

Folder 141

Folder 142

Correspondence, 1834

Folder 141: January-September 1834

Folder 142: October-December 1834

Eliza E. Haywood to her sister Rebecca Jane, who was visiting in Wilmington with the E. B. Dudley family, giving extensive advice on the conduct of a young lady and an account of Raleigh social news. Information in the letters of Rebecca Haywood indicates that on this Wilmington visit she met Albert G. Hall and married him the following November or December in Raleigh. Her letters from 1835 until her tragic death in 1842 written to her sister Eliza depict the unfortunate circumstances of her married life and her trials with her husband. 20 February, bond of several members of the Haywood family to purchase some of the property that had been taken from John Haywood, state treasurer, when the deficit was discovered at his death. 21 March, Thomas D. King, Tuscaloosa, Ala., to G. W. Haywood about business concerning their two families. 1 April, Carolina R. Moore, Wilmington, N.C., to "My Dear Cousin" (Rebecca Jane Haywood). 5 April, Randolph Webb, Raleigh, to Judge Henry Seawell, Raleigh, legal matter concerning the discharge of a bond. 11 and 26 April, William B. Meares, Wilmington attorney, to George W. Haywood, legal business. 26 October, copy of the will of James Speight of Wake County. 24 November, Albert G. Hall, Wilmington, to Eliza Haywood on his forthcoming marriage to her sister Rebecca Jane.

Folder 143-145

Folder 143

Folder 144

Folder 145

Correspondence, 1835

Folder 143: January-March 1835

Folder 144: April-July 1835

Folder 145: August-December 1835

Includes Eliza Haywood's accounts with general merchandise firm in Raleigh. Two land transactions of William Donaldson and Henry A. Donaldson of Wake County. Letters from Rebecca (Haywood) Hall to her sister Eliza giving an account of her life in Wilmington. 4 March, the first of about six letters of C. H. Dudley, attending an Episcopal boys school in Raleigh, to Albert Hall. In this year appear the first letters of John Steele Haywood to his brother George W. written from Greensboro, Greene County, Ala., where he had moved to make a new life. 30 May, Elizabeth Pearsall to her nephew Albert G. Hall.

Folder 146-148

Folder 146

Folder 147

Folder 148

Correspondence, 1836

Folder 146: January-May 1836

Folder 147: June-September 1836

Folder 148: October-December

Records of enslavement and/or free people of color:

• 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) (folder 146).
• April 23 and May 20, letters in which Allen, a man enslaved by Harrison Terrell, was mentioned as a victim of an attempted lynching. Allen was visiting his wife and children at the home of Eliza J. Powell when the violence against him occurred. The letters are from Joseph Fowler of Wake County to G. W. Haywood (folder 146).

Other materials include legal correspondence of George W. Haywood with northern law firms. A marked increase in family letters, including the letters of A. G. Hall to his wife, Rebecca, staying with her family in Raleigh. Their first child was born in January 1836, a girl who was named Eliza Haywood Hall and thereafter called Betsy. 20 February, Fabius Haywood to Alfred Williams, Greensborough, Ala., with news of the families in both localities. Evidence in the letter indicates that the Alabama venture was a combined effort to repay debts and recover reputation. 22 January, Harry Clark, Cook County, Tenn., to his nephew Lewis Dupree of Raleigh. 8 March, copy of the will of Thomas Lambeth of Chatham County. 18 April, Theo A. Snow, Liberty Va., to George W. Haywood, friendly letter. 13 May, Joseph Gales Johnson, Choctaw, Columbus (Miss.?) on the influence of Santa Anna on the cotton market and advantages of emigrating to Texas as soon as the land opened up. A. G. Hall to Rebecca Haywood Hall. 26 September, H. Waddell, Pittsboro, to "My dear cousin" (Eliza Haywood) asking to room at her house. 6 November, (and March and April 1837) William Davie Haywood, Philadelphia, to his brother George on entering medical college. George W. was paying his tuition and expenses. Articles of agreement and correspondence with overseers. 2 November, Richard D. Speight, New Bern, legal business with W. Haywood.

Folder 149-151

Folder 149

Folder 150

Folder 151

Correspondence, 1837

Folder 149: January-May 1837

Folder 150: June-August 1837

Folder 151: September-December 1837

Includes legal papers and plantation correspondence and accounts as heretofore. 12 March, Rebecca Haywood Hall, Woodbine Retreat near South Washington, N.C., where she and her husband had made their home and engaged in farming, to her sister Eliza Haywood. Eliza Haywood's household accounts with the Raleigh firm of Haywood and Little. 3 July and 17 August, William Davie Haywood, Philadelphia, to his brother George on receiving his medical degree, which took him six months. 2 August, deed for Indiana land between William and Susan Williams and Alexander Lawrence. Correspondence with attorneys and other persons in Indiana over this property composes a minor segment of the Williams papers for the next 20-year period. Other letters from Rebecca Hall and one from Albert G. Hall of 17 December to Eliza Haywood telling of the arrival of his wife's second child, a daughter called Alice. 27 October, Will of Susan Parrish of Wake County.

Folder 152-155

Folder 152

Folder 153

Folder 154

Folder 155

Correspondence, 1838

Folder 152: January-March 1838

Folder 153: April-June 1838

Folder 154: July-September 1838

Folder 155: October-December 1838

February 18, Richard Barum, friend and client of George W. Haywood, formerly of Wake County, withdrawing lawsuit against "old Rodgers" and the Williams family. March and October 24, J. W. Carroll, Chapel Hill attorney, urging G. W. Haywood to attend to certain legal matters. May 5, Abraham Rencher, Washington, D. C., to G. W. Haywood. May 25, M. I. Waddell, Pittsboro, to Charles Manly about a debt. June 19, William Roles to G. W. Haywood requesting legal advice on a suspected rape of a mute girl. July 13, August 16, and January 25, 1840, Robert Stamper, Hilliardston, Nash County, to G. W. Haywood about his suit against the Bank of the State of North Carolina October 25, March 11 and November 27, 1839, Moses Jewett, Columbus, Mo., to George W. Haywood about Dr. Joseph B. Hinton of Raleigh. November 7, [Mrs.] S. H. Waddell, Hillsboro, to Eliza Moorefields near Hillsborough. November 8, Alfred M. Haywood, Raleigh, to her brother George about desiring to keep the family home to purchase herself for a boarding school.

Folder 156-158

Folder 156

Folder 157

Folder 158

Correspondence, 1839

Folder 156: January-May 1839

Folder 157: June-October 1839

Folder 158: November-December 1839

Records of enslavement and/or free people of color:

• January 4, a letter about Rachel, an enslaved woman who had self-emancipated by running away 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 possibility of trafficking him through sale, in a letter from John S. Haywood in Greensboro, Ala., to George W. Haywood in Raleigh. Charlotte, an enslaved woman who had a young child still breastfeeding; Sarah Ann, an enslaved woman who was pregnant; Maria, an enslaved woman; Abner, an enslaved man who was disabled by Scrofula, a type of tuberculosis infection, and hip joint disease; Weston, an enslaved man; Catharine, an enslaved woman; and an unnamed enslaved child referred to as "Mrs. Pasteur's boy" are also mentioned in the letter that describes strained finances and management of the Alabama plantation, including predictions of how much cotton could be harvested by enslaved people, the considerations of health and skill in hiring out enslaved people (folder 156)
• May 3, letter in which Weston; Zepha; Mary, who was falsely rumored to have self-emancipated; Sylvia, who was resistant to the idea of being trafficked through hiring out; Catharine; Lucy; and Alex, all may have been members of a group of enslaved people who recently had been removed from Raleigh on a 32 day trip to Greensboro, Ala. John S. Haywood in Greensboro, Ala., described the enslaved people, including his concerns for their acclimation to the Alabama weather in a letter to his sister Eliza E. Haywood in Raleigh (folder 156).
• July 25, the will of Willie Robertson includes Silvy, who was bequeathed to Mary P. Robertson; "Big Mary," who was bequeathed to Sarah Jane Robertson; Allen, who was bequeathed to Thomas C. Robertson; "Little Mary," who was bequeathed to Leonidas W. Robertson (folder 157).
• 26 June 1837, a deed in which Sam, a 32 year old enslaved man; Lucinda, an 25 year old enslaved woman; Edey, an enslaved 3 year old child; and Daniel, an enslaved 6 month old child, were conveyed from Edward Stevens to Ransom Stevens (folder 157).

Other materials include: January 3, letters from Eliza E. Haywood to her brothers Fabius and George thanking them for enabling her to keep the family home; November 16, Joseph B. Hinton, Raleigh, to George W. Haywood; February 12, 1842, same to same. There are several letters from Rebecca Jane Haywood Hall to Eliza E. Haywood, and scattered letters 1839-41 from Reverdy Johnson to George W. Haywood.

Folder 159-160

Folder 159

Folder 160

Correspondence, 1840

Folder 159: January-June 1840

Folder 160: July-December 1840

Includes many business and legal papers and letters of George W. Haywood. Also in this year are a few letters and invitations to G. W. Haywood on Whig business or celebrations. Eliza Haywood's school tuition bills and receipts. March 5, Charles Fisher, Washington, D. C., about "the debt we owe to the Literary Board." March 30, John H. Seawell, Spring Hill, Ala., to his brother Henry Seawell, Raleigh. May 20, B. Whitfield wrote to give Williams information on his land holdings and conditions in Alabama in general. July 10, Abraham Rencher, Pittsboro, to Charles Manly, Raleigh, about a Whig meeting and maneuvers. September 11, J. O. Watson of Raleigh writing from Montreal, Canada, to G. E. Haywood about his travels in that place. September 23, November 16, Rebecca Hall, South Washington, N.C., to her sister Eliza about the new baby daughter, her many problems, her husband's unkindness.

Folder 161-163

Folder 161

Folder 162

Folder 163

Correspondence, 1841

Folder 161: January-March 1841

Folder 162: April-August 1841

Folder 163: September-December 1841

Includes scattered letters during this period to Eliza Haywood from [Mrs.] S. H. Waddell of Hillsboro, and also from Rebecca Hall. January 8, H. I. Gorman, Concord, to Martha Gorman, Raleigh, about losing his money and property, going to Mississippi. Family letters about Eliza's plan to open a boarding school. March 29, W. Nichols, formerly of Raleigh, writing from prison (?) to George W. Haywood desiring his services as an attorney. An engineer, Nichols had gotten into serious trouble. July 17, Ezra McCall Tate, Asheville, N.C., to George W. Haywood. May 2, Rebecca Hall to Eliza on her little daughter Alice being burned to death and other tragic events in her family. December 25, and August 1, 1842, Spencer H. Alston, Bedford, N.C., to G. W. Haywood, personal and business matters.

Folder 164-167

Folder 164

Folder 165

Folder 166

Folder 167

Correspondence, 1842

Folder 164: January-March 1842

Folder 165: April-July 1842

Folder 166: August-October 1842

Folder 167: November-December 1842

Includes letters from Merritt Dillard of Holy Springs, Ala., to Alfred Williams, Linden, Ala., about mutual property holdings, debts, etc. A number of family letters, accounts and other business items related to the family farming ventures in Alabama. Letters of Rebecca Hall to her sister Eliza and also of her husband urging payment to him of his wife's share of her mother's estate. August 20, Ann M. Jones, South Washington, to Eliza Haywood on the death of Rebecca Haywood Hall. November 28, Guion Scott, New Bern, to his brother Lawrence W. Scott, Raleigh. November 28, Thomas A. Williams, Hamilton, Ga., to his brother Alfred telling of their brother William's imminent departure for Mississippi and family business. See also 7 July 1843, Williams to Williams. December 31, Albert G. Hall to Eliza E. Haywood declining her offer to raise and educate Rebecca's two surviving daughters, Betsy and Ida.

Folder 168-170

Folder 168

Folder 169

Folder 170

Correspondence, 1843

Folder 168: January-May 1843

Folder 169: June-August 1843

Folder 170: September-December 1843

Records of enslavement and/or free people of color:

• October 25, the will of Lucinda Lanier of Franklin County, N.C., documents that Dick (adult), Bill (adult), H.G. Leigh (male child), Rebecca (child), Amelia (child) were bequeathed to John Nicholson. Each of these individuals, as well as Phill (adult), another enslaved person, were to receive money from the estate upon Lucinda Lanier's death. (folder 170).

Includes business and legal papers as heretofore. January 7, Eliza E. Haywood to Alfred Hall on the care and education of Rebecca's two daughters, and March 1, Hall's reply to same. These are the last letters relating to the Hall family in the papers. Letters from John MacLeod, "Buna Vista," Johnston County, N.C., to George W. Haywood about debts, legal matters, Whig business, at length. These letters are dated June 25, June 26 (to H. W. Husted of Raleigh), July 4, August 17, September 1, October 12, 21; and October 23, 1844. July 19, William Davie Haywood to his brother George about his poor circumstances, desiring to leave for Alabama to practice as a physician. Shortly after this letter was written he did leave for Alabama where he lived with his brother John on his plantation in Greene County. John's letter to George of November 29 describes William's conduct on the plantation. July 27, will of Elija Powell of Chatham County. August 21, Eliza Haywood to her brother George about the education of their brother Edmund Burke, who was going to UNC. October 25, will of Lucinda Lanier of Franklin County, N.C.

Folder 171-174

Folder 171

Folder 172

Folder 173

Folder 174

Correspondence, 1844

Folder 171: January-March 1844

Folder 172: April-August 1844

Folder 173: September-October 1844

Folder 174: November-December 1844

Records of enslavement and/or free people of color:

• May, will of William Lashley of Wake County, N.C., documents Joe, a child, who was bequeathed to Young Lashley, and six other unnamed enslaved people who were bequeathed to Elizabeth Lashley (folder 172).

Includes letters from E. Burke Haywood attending UNC at Chapel Hill. January 13, D. Sugg to George W. Haywood, legal business and emigrating to Mississippi. Indenture between William Powell and William Poole of Wake. February 10, Indenture between William N. Shanck, George W. Haywood, John Buffalow, Weston R. Gales, and John Smith for land. May 29, Joel King, Green Hill, Ala., to Alfred Williams. May, will of William Lashley of Wake County. July 29, copy of letter from George W. Haywood to David W. Stone, Raleigh attorney, in which Haywood demanded to know if Stone had made certain slanderous statements about him. Stone either was or had been a law partner of Haywood's. October 17, Eliza E. Haywood to her brother Burke at Chapel Hill with family and Raleigh news. November 24, John P. Manly, Smithfield, to George W. Haywood asking him to be his "groomsman." November 29, Joel King, Green Hill, Ala., to Alfred Williams about business, debts, mutual friends. December 14, Guion Scott, New Bern, to his brother Dr. Lawrence W. Scott, Raleigh.

Folder 175-178

Folder 175

Folder 176

Folder 177

Folder 178

Correspondence, 1845

Folder 175: January-April 1845

Folder 176: May-July 1845

Folder 177: August-October 1845

Folder 178: November-December 1845

Records of enslavement and/or free people of color:

• November, a list of fifty enslaved people (ages provided) who were purchased from a Miss Hinton (folder 178).

Other materials are scattered letters between members of the Scott family. January 3, 13, deed and articles of agreement between John S. and George W. Haywood as to the ownership and operation of their Alabama land holdings. January 19, Reverdy Johnson, Annapolis, to George W. Haywood. January 30, Thomas Bragg, Warrenton, N.C., to G. W. Haywood. March 29, N. E. Rand, New Bern, Alabama, to John Hayes, attorney of Raleigh, telling about one D. B. Massey, alias Dempsey Blake, formerly of Wake County, who had deserted his North Carolina family and settled in Alabama. May 25 and later, letters from E. Burke Haywood at Chapel Hill to his brother George and sister Eliza. October 6, George Gray, Windsor, N.C., to his cousin David Stone. A few items of legal and business correspondence of David W. Stone. November 5, 19, W. H. Jones, Raleigh, to David W. Stone. Legal papers of the Powell and Fowler families of Wake County.

Folder 179-180

Folder 179

Folder 180

Correspondence, 1846

Folder 179: January-June 1846

Folder 180: July-December 1846

Includes family letters, a number about William Davie Haywood in Greene County, Ala., and a few from him. April 1, May 1, J. P. Devereux to David W. Stone. Many business items related to the Marengo County, Ala., plantation of Williams & Haywood, Inc. August 29, E. Burke Haywood to his brother George about his decision to "quit the study of Law and commence that of Physick." November 21, M. A. C. Gaines, Wake Forest, about giving security to G. W. Haywood.

Folder 181-184

Folder 181

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Folder 183

Folder 184

Correspondence, 1847

Folder 181: January-April 1847

Folder 182: May-July 1847

Folder 183: August-September 1847

Folder 184: October-December 1847

Records of enslavement and/or free people of color:

• January 1, a receipt indicating Ruffin, a boy enslaved by Alfred Williams, was hired out for the year 1846. Ruffin was to be returned to Williams in Greensborough on 1 January 1847 (folder 181).
• January 1, a list of 22 enslaved people who had been hired out in Greene County for the year 1846 (folder 181).
• March 27, will of John Shaw of Wake County documents Sam, Daisy, Norod(?), Allen, Jimmy, Lender, Cherry, Isaac, Wake, Frank, Ransom, Hansel, Phil, Mary, Jane, Daniel, Clay, Caroline, and Maria, who were lent to Fanny Martin Shaw; Orange, Ben, and Patsey, who were bequeathed to A. M. Shaw. Mariah and Sarah, enslaved girls, who were bequeathed to Candace B. Peake; Sep(?) and Milla, who were bequeathed to Laura M. Rogers; Anthony, an adult, and Emeline, a girl, who were bequeathed to Polly (Mary) Morgan Wright; Chancy and Jinsy(?), and an unnamed woman and child, who were bequeathed to Jennette (Jane) Screven Herndon; Isham, who was bequeathed to John T. Shaw; Dick, Surry, and a girl, Joannah, who were bequeathed to Agness M. Leathers; Nevers(?), an adult man, and a boy (approximately 9 years old), Henderson, who were bequeathed to Calvin H. Shaw; Jenkins, Granville, Sarah, Violet, Warren, Ellen, Henry, Caswell, and Rosanna, who were identified as part of the estate; and William, Ketto(?), Tom, Yance, and James, whose enslavement was shared by John Shaw and his mother Frances Shaw (folder 181).
• June 20, will of Frances Waddail of Franklin County, N.C., documents Jinny, an enslaved woman; Margaret, an enslaved girl, who was bequeathed to Martha Brooks; Martha, an enslaved girl, was lent to Alice Debnam; Charles, an enslaved man, who was bequeathed to James Waddail; and Mill, an enslaved woman, and John, an enslaved boy, who were bequeathed to Susanna Wilson (folder 182).

Other materials are almost entirely legal and business papers. January 9, Alfred Williams, Marengo County, Ala, to his brother John R. at Raleigh concerning their mutual affairs. February 17, power of attorney granted by T. Loving, Wake County, to William R. Pool was an active Whig and friend of George W. Haywood.

Folder 185-187

Folder 185

Folder 186

Folder 187

Correspondence, 1848

Folder 185: January-May 1848

Folder 186: June-August 1848

Folder 187: September-December 1848

Legal correspondence and papers of George W. Haywood, and plantation business items and correspondence of Williams and Haywood, Inc.

Folder 188-192

Folder 188

Folder 189

Folder 190

Folder 191

Folder 192

Correspondence, 1849

Folder 188: January-February 1849

Folder 189: March-May 1849

Folder 190: June-August 1849

Folder 191: September-October 1849

Folder 192: November-December 1849

Records of enslavement and/or free people of color:

• May 18, will of William R. Pool of Wake County, N.C., in which unnamed enslaved people are mentioned as to be trafficked through sale "South" (folder 189).
• September 12, a bill of complaint of Henry W. Perry against James S. Yarbrough, both of Franklin County, N.C., in which Isaac, an enslaved man, and other unnamed enslaved people are mentioned. Isaac and the other enslaved people had been conveyed in 1846 by Samuel Perry to Mary B. Perry (wife of Guston Perry) (folder 191).
• October 21, a letter from S. S. Taylor near Linden, to Alfred Williams in Raleigh, N.C., reporting that Isaac, Toba, Swail, Anthony, Gideon, Henry, Hinton, Jacob, Willis, Dany, Jessee, Dudley, Jane, Charlotte, Stranfred, Love (?), Fab, Jerry B., and Lorda(?) were all sick with chills and fever, possibly cholera (folder 191).

Other papers are similar to those previously described. Also included are papers relating to the family and descendants of James Furse who married Herodias Redding in 1766 in Savannah, Ga. (typed transcription). March 3, Mat. W. Alexander, Charlotte, to George W. Haywood. April 7, E. Burke Haywood's medical diploma from the University of Pennsylvania. July and September, a few legal papers relating to the Stith family of Raleigh. September 1, William S. Hadley, Chatham County, to the directors of the Bank of Cape Fear at Raleigh about debts of the late Allen Goodwin of Raleigh. December 6, Nathaniel J. Palmer, Milton, N.C., to Sarah Ann Stone, widow of David W. Stone, and December 10, Palmer's bond to Sarah Ann Stone. Also October 6, 1850, Palmer to George W. Haywood.

Folder 193-195

Folder 193

Folder 194

Folder 195

Correspondence, 1850

Folder 193: January-March 1850

Folder 194: April-July 1850

Folder 195: August-December 1850

Records of enslavement and/or free people of color:

• September 3, will of Josiah Jones of Wake County documents Mary, a girl, who was bequeathed to Freemann Jones; Leak, a girl, who was bequeathed to Rebecca Bunn; Aniky(?), a woman, and her youngest child, Willie, who were bequeathed to Lucy Strickland; Isabel, a girl, who was bequeathed to Candis Jones; John Lump, a boy, who was bequeathed to Gilly Jones; and unidentified enslaved people who were loaned to his wife Temperance Jones during her lifetime and then to be trafficked through sale (folder 195).

Primarily papers similar to those previously described. Also included are May 7, Samuel F. Phillips, Chapel Hill, to George W. Haywood about litigation between Henry Williams and a Mr. Page whose son married Williams's daughter. August 14, legal agreement between Edward Yarborough of Raleigh and Alfred Williams. Yarborough had married Hannah Haywood, widow of Dr. John Lee Haywood, and was the proprietor of Raleigh's Yarborough House. September, 27, H. Waddell, Hillsboro, to George W. Haywood about being sued by the Bank of Cape Fear. Also two letters of February 21, 1851.

Folder 196-198

Folder 196

Folder 197

Folder 198

Correspondence, 1851

Folder 196: January-April 1851

Folder 197: May-September 1851

Folder 198: October-December 1851

Records of enslavement and/or free people of color:

• 1843 (undated), tax list of 25 enslaved people between the ages of ten and fifty years, and 10 enslaved children under the age of ten years are documented without names. Enslaved people under the age of ten years and over the age of fifty years were taxed at lower rates (folder 196).
• 1844 (undated), tax list of 43 enslaved people, including 28 who were between the ages of ten and fifty years and 15 who were under the age of ten years (folder 196).
• 1846 (undated), tax list of 56 enslaved people, including 34 who were between the ages of ten and fifty years and 22 who were under the age of ten years (folder 196).
• 1847 (undated), tax list of 54 enslaved people between the ages of ten and fifty years, and 22 enslaved children under the age of ten years are documented without names (folder 196).
• 1848, (undated), tax list of 81 enslaved people with names and ages (folder 196).
• 1849 (undated), tax list of 84 enslaved people, including 5 infants, with names and ages (folder 196).
• February 5, will of Elizabeth Fort of Wake County, N.C., in which Esther, Lucy, Abram, and Richard Aaron were lent to Mary Wall (wife of William Hall) during her lifetime; Jerry, Penn, Albert, and Sarah Gaddy were lent to Edith Hinton (wife of Wimberly Hinton) during her lifetime; Susan and Alice Ann were lent to Mary Ann Poole (wife of James S. Poole) during her lifetime (folder 196).
• 1 January 1851: receipt for attendance and preaching services provided A. J. Crawfor to enslaved people.

Other papers are as previously described. Scattered letters during the year from J. R. Whitaker, Wilmington, to George W. Haywood. August 30, two lengthy letters from John S. Haywood, Greensborough, Ala., to George W. giving an account of the state of their operations in Alabama, extent of land holding, present and future prospects. December 8, John W. Wilson, overseer, to his employer Alfred Williams. Other Wilson letters occasionally during this decade. December 9, Samuel F. Phillips, Chapel Hill, to G. W. Haywood about an insolvent merchant, a Mr. Kirkland.

Folder 199-201

Folder 199

Folder 200

Folder 201

Correspondence, 1852

Folder 199: January-April 1852

Folder 200: May-August 1852

Folder 201: September-December 1852

Chiefly papers as previously described. February 1 and March 12, M. D. J. Slade, Tuscaloosa, Ala., to Alfred Williams. Slade was a native North Carolinian. November 1, Sidney Smith, Chapel Hill, to George W. Haywood about mutual business.

Folder 202-203

Folder 202

Folder 203

Correspondence, 1853

Folder 202: January-July 1853

Folder 203: August-December 1853

Records of enslavement and/or free people of color:

• November 9, letter to George W. Haywood from John Goode, an attorney in Brogden, Va., concerning defense of Hardaman Irby who had been accused of murdering an enslaved person (folder 203).

Chiefly papers as previously described. January 9, John R. Williams, Raleigh, to his brother Alfred in Linden, Ala., about the Williams' business operations in Raleigh. June 15, John T. Williams, Harris County, Ga., to his uncle Alfred on the death of his father. Scattered correspondence of a legal nature from William Veitch of Philadelphia to George W. Haywood. October 2, Charles Manly to Eliza E. Haywood.

Folder 204-206

Folder 204

Folder 205

Folder 206

Correspondence, 1854

Folder 204: January-March 1854

Folder 205: April-July 1854

Folder 206: August-December 1854

Chiefly papers as previously described. May 30, Thomas Ruffin (not the chief justice), Washington, D. C., to G. W. Haywood on the legal question of sanity with regard to his sister. June 12, Merritt Dillard, Carroll County, Miss., to John Griffes, Raleigh, about his long life in Mississippi, debts, etc.

Folder 207-210

Folder 207

Folder 208

Folder 209

Folder 210

Correspondence, 1855

Folder 207: January-February 1855

Folder 208: March-June 1855

Folder 209: July-August 1855

Folder 210: September-December 1855

Chiefly papers as previously described. September 10, William A. Graham, Hillsboro, to G. W. Haywood on legal business. November 18, Alfred Moore Haywood to his brother George about his problems.

Folder 211-213

Folder 211

Folder 212

Folder 213

Correspondence, 1856

Folder 211: January-March 1856

Folder 212: April-September 1856

Folder 213: October-December 1856

Chiefly papers as previously described. January 4, deed for a large tract of land purchased by Alfred Williams west of Raleigh. August 1 is the date of the first letter written by Alfred Moore Haywood on his flight from Raleigh, accused of murdering a man named Smith. Haywood's letters to his brothers in Raleigh continue until after the Civil War.

Folder 214-216

Folder 214

Folder 215

Folder 216

Correspondence, 1857

Folder 214: January-March 1857

Folder 215: April-August 1857

Folder 216: September-December 1857

Chiefly correspondence and other papers as previously described. A number of family letters, including letters from Alfred M. Haywood staying temporarily with a Dr. Ruffin (formerly of North Carolina) in Lexington and Independence, Mo., Van Buren, Ark., and other locations on the frontier. Sometimes he signed his name "Jacob Shepperd." November, E. Burke Haywood's account books for his patients, including Sion H. Rogers.

Folder 217-219

Folder 217

Folder 218

Folder 219

Correspondence, 1858

Folder 217: January-March 1858

Folder 218: April-August 1858

Folder 219: September-December 1858

Includes more letters from Alfred Haywood, some written from Matamoros, Mexico, where he finally decided to settle. A few items of Colonel Edward Yarborough, some relating to the Yarborough House at Raleigh. March 6, C. C. H., Columbia, Tennessee, to "Dear Sister," (Fanny Jones) containing an obituary of Colonel Edward Jones of Pittsboro, Chatham County, which gives some biographical and genealogical information. April 9, Charles Manly to "My dear Cousin," (Eliza Haywood). May 16, James T. Morehead, Greensboro, N.C., to George W. Haywood about the business of Jacob Hubbard.

Folder 220-222

Folder 220

Folder 221

Folder 222

Correspondence, 1859

Folder 220: January-March 1859

Folder 221: April-September 1859

Folder 222: October-December 1859

Records of enslavement and/or free people of color:

• January 14, letter of Alfred Williams, Marengo County, Ala., to his cousin Fabius Haywood giving a full account of and valuation of their mutually owned plantation and enslaved people. Williams desired to sell all of his Alabama interests and devote all his time to his Wake County, N.C., plantation and law practice (folder 220).
• 20 January, list of enslaved people to be trafficked through sale at Linden (folder 220).

Other materials include January, Alfred M. Haywood, Matamoros, Mexico, to Burke Haywood. This letter describes his two-month stay at Monterey. A number of other Alfred Haywood letters are present during the year. April 1 and May 9, William Cate, Jonesboro, Tenn., to Alfred Williams about business of the family of the late W. T. M. Outlaw and the Hartmus family. Some correspondence relating to the sale of Alfred Haywood's land by his brother Burke to a Mr. Henry. Henry died a few months after this and it is not clear whether the sale actually went through. December 2, John S. Haywood to George W. on the death of their brother William Davie Haywood of typhoid fever.

Folder 223-225a

Correspondence, 1860

Folder 223: January-March 1860

Folder 224: April-October 1860

Folder 225a: November-December 1860

Chiefly business, legal, and plantation papers as previously described, and letters from Alfred Moore Haywood in Mexico.

Folder 225b

Undated letters received by George Washington Haywood, circa 1830-1860

Folder 225c-225i

Other undated material, 1830-1860