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of tijf Itttorattg of Nnrtli (Carolina OlDllprtion at Nnrllj QIarnltmatta CSOG UNIVERSITY OF N.C. AT CHAPEL HILL 00033953437 This book must not be taken from the Library baiUing Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2009 with funding from Ensuring Democracy through Digital Access (NC-LSTA) http://www.archive.org/details/biennialreportof193638nort PUBLICATIONS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL COMMISSION BULLETIN NO. 39 SEVENTEENTH BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1936-1938 SEVENTEENTH BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL COMMISSION July 1, 1936, TO June 30, 1938 RALEIGH North Carolina Historical Commission 1938 THE NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL COMMISSION M. C. S. Noble, Chairman, Chapel Hill Heriot Clarkson, Raleigh J. Allan Dunn, Salisbury Mrs. George McNeill, Fayetteville Clarence W. Griffin, Forest City C. C. Crittenden, Secretary, Raleigh LETTER OF TRANSMISSION To His Excellency, Clyde R. Hoey, Governor of North Carolina. Sir:—In compliance with Chapter 714 of the Public Laws of 1907, I have the honor to submit herewith for your Excellency's consideration the Biennial Report of the North Carolina His-torical Commission for the period July 1, 1936-June 30, 1938. Respectfully, M. C. S. Noble, Chairman. Raleigh, N. C, July 1, 1938. BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE North Carolina Historical Commission July 1, 1936, to June 30, 1938 To M. C. S. Noble, Chairman, and Heriot Clarkson, J. Allan Dunn, Mrs. George McNeill, and Clarence W. Griffin, Commissioners : I have the honor to submit the following report of the North Carolina Historical Commission for the period July 1, 1936-June 30, 1938: ORGANIZATION I. The Historical Commission. On August 29, 1936, George McNeill, because of illness, re-signed as a member of the Commission, and Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus appointed Mrs. George McNeill, his wife, to fill the unexpired term, which ends March 31, 1941. William Kenneth Boyd after a long illness died on January 19, 1938. The following resolutions were framed by a committee appointed by the Chairman of the Commission : William Kenneth Boyd, Professor of History at Duke University and member of the North Carolina Historical Commission, was born at Curry-ville, Missouri, in 1879, and died at Durham, North Carolina, on January 19, 1938. He was educated at Weaver College (North Carolina), at Trinity College (now Duke University), and at Columbia University. By the last named of these institutions he was awarded the degree of doctor of philoso-phy in 1906. He taught for long years at his alma mater (Trinity College). He was the author of a History of North Carolina, 1783-1860 (1919) and The Story of Durham: City of the New South (1925), and editor of Some Eigh-teenth Century Tracts concerning North Carolina (1927) and William ByrcVs Histories of the Dividing Line beticixt Virginia and North Carolina (1929). He was also the author of many articles and book reviews, was joint author of several school histories and syllabuses, and was for many years one of the editors of The South Atlantic Quarterly. Dr. Boyd had an iniinite capacity for painstaking—often termed genius. His life was a full expression of the best in all things. As a writer and teacher he always showed a thorough and comprehensive grasp of the subject in hand. His funeral in the Duke University Chapel was largely attended by men of all sorts and conditions, who thus showed the love, affection, and esteem which all people had for him. It is the desire of the Committee that this tribute be printed in the Biennial Report of the North Carolina Historical Commission and that copies be sent to the family of the deceased. Heriot Clarkson, J. Allan Dunn, Mrs. George McNeill, Committee. 6 Seventeenth Biennial Report On February 2, 1938, Governor Clyde R. Hoey appointed Clarence W. GrifRn to fill the unexpired term ending March 31, 1943. II. The Office Force. Secretary—C. C. Crittenden. Collector for the Hall of History—Marybelle Delamar (Acting Collector), July 1, 1936-March 31, 1937: Mrs. Caroline Stringfield (Acting Collector), April 1-July 31, 1937; Mattie Erma Edwards, August 1, 1937-June 30, 1938. Miss Edwards had been on leave of absence from her position as Collector for the Hall of History since February 10, 1936, in order to serve as Assistant Regional Director of the Survey of Federal Archives. (See below, p. 32.) Chief Library Assistant—D. L. Corbitt. Restorer of Manuscripts—Mrs. J. M. Winfree. Senior Stenographer-Clerk—Sophie D. Busbee. Senior Library Assistant—Mrs. W. S. West. Manuscript Copyist—Mrs. J. C. Meconnahey. Researcher-Highway Markers—Marybelle Delamar, March 23-June 30, 1938. Temporary Copyist—Mrs. Izora McClure, 22 days in July, 1936. Janitor-Messenger—Edward Freeman. ACCESSIONS With a limited staff in crowded quarters, it has been impossible for the Commission to accession new materials as fast as they have been acquired, though a great deal has been accomplished in this respect by the use of relief workers. A list of accessions for the biennium follows I. Additions to Collections. 1. Personal Papers: The Alexander Boyd Andrews, Jr., Papers. 1 pamphlet, Raleigh's Roanoke Colony of 1585; 1 letter, J. M. Morehead to Alex. B. An-drews, Feb. 15, 1938. Given by Mr. A. B. Andrews, Raleigh. Samuel A'Court Ashe Papers. Letter, John Ashe to Governor Richard Caswell, Feb. 23, 1778. Typescript copy. Deed, Samuel Porter Ashe and Ezekiel Lane, March 1, 1814. Typescript copy. Given by Capt. S. A. Ashe, Raleigh. John Penn Papers. Letter, J. Penn to , 1778, (July ?). Photo-stat purchased from Carolina Blue Printers. Jefferson Davis Papers. Letter from V. Jefferson Davis [to James H. Jones], Sept. 10, 1906. Transferred from Hall of History. W. W. Holden Papers. "Recollections of W. W. Holden." Notes taken by Dr. E. E. Folk at interview with Mrs. Henry Murdock, April 29, 1930. Typescript copy. Given by Dr. Edgar E. Folk, Wake Forest. Southgate Jones Papers. 17 wills, deeds, and letters, 1814-1863; 1 marriage bond—John Williams and Nancy Arrendell, August 10, 1804, Franklin County. Given by Mr. Southgate Jones, Durham. Kiffin Yates Rockwell Papers. Notes—Kiffin Yates Rockwell. Type-script. Given by Mr. Paul Ayres Rockwell, Asheville. Calvin H. Wiley Papers. 16 letters, 1855-1876. Given by Miss Mary C. Wiley, Winston-Salem. Winslow Papers. Miscellaneous genealogical material. Given by Dr. Nathan Winslow, Baltimore, Maryland. Paul C. West Collection. Statement of Salisbury Branch Bank, Nov. 20, 1816. Given by Mr. Paul C. West, Raleigh. N. C. Historical Commission 7 2. General Court Records: General Court papers, 1687, 169S, and 1713. Photostats purchased from Carolina Blue Printers through the courtesy of Mr. Richard Dillard Dixon, Edenton. 3. District Court Records: Morgan District. 4,973 pieces miscellaneous court papers. Given by Burke County Clerk of Superior Court. New Bern District. 21 summonses, bonds, 1805-1806, etc., to sheriffs of various counties from sheriff of Superior Court of District of New Bern. Given by Mr. Wilmer L. Hall, Virginia State Librarian, Richmond, Virginia. 4. County Records: Bertie. 34 marriage bonds and 67,000 pieces of miscellaneous court papers; letter, J. B. Blount to brother. May 28, 1812 (found tied around a bundle of Bei'tie County wills). Given by Clerk of Su-perior Court. Burke. 2 marriage bonds and 8,523 pieces miscellaneous court papers. Caswell. 3 wills. Also notes on James Terry taken from Wheeler's History of North Carolina, and a History of Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Given by Mr. Edwin L. Davis, Washington, D. C. Edgecombe. 86 marriage bonds. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Gates. 6,738 pieces miscellaneous court papers. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Halifax. 1 marriage bond, 1850. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Hyde. 48 marriage bonds and 25,000 pieces miscellaneous court papers. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Johnston. Summons for Samuel Smith, Jr., November 23, 1768. Given by Miss Amelia L. Killips, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Will of Urias Baucom, May 27, 1873. Typescript. Given by Mr. C. D. Baucom, Raleigh. Receipt, May 1, 1805, Robt. Gulley, Jr., Sheriff of Johnston County,- for money paid Henry Stevens as witness. Given by Mr. Wilmer L. Hall, Virginia State Librarian, Richmond, Virginia. Martin. 1 marriage bond, 1846. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Mecklenburg. 4 marriage bonds and 1 note granting permission to obtain marriage license. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Moore. Unofficial list of Moore County marriages not recorded in the county courthouse, from an old volume in possession of Miss Kate Harrington Cameron. List made by a Historical Records Survey worker, under supervision of Miss Cameron. Typescript. Given by Historical Records Survey, Raleigh. Northampton. 1 marriage bond, 1841. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Onslow. Wills, court records, divisions and inventories of estates, marriage certificate, and 11 census lists of Onslow County, 1786. Given by Governor's Office. Orange. Copy of will of James Sanders, 1776. Given by Mrs. Edwin L. Davis, Washington, D. C. Pasquotank. 1 marriage bond, 1822, and 7,524 pieces miscellaneous court papers. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Perquimans. 204 marriage bonds. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Person. 8 pieces miscellaneous court papers. Given by Clerk of Su-perior Court. Richmond. Typescript copy of Sheriff's Tax Bocfks, 1792-1793; list of aliens desiring United States citizenship, September 20, 1813. From Minutes of Court of Law and Equity, 1807-1815. Given by Historical Records Survey, Raleigh. Rowan. Original in German and a typescript translation of the will of Johannes Leinbach, 1766. Translated and given by Dr. Adelaide L. Fries, Winston-Salem. Rutherford. Public Officers of Rutherford County, 1779-1935. Type-script copy. Given by Mr. Clarence W. Griffin, Forest City. Seventeenth Biennial Report Tyrrell. 4 marriage bonds and 20,175 pieces miscellaneous court papers. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Wake. Will of Allen W. Davis, 1820. Manuscript copy. And 5,061 pieces miscellaneous court papers. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Warren. 3,423 pieces miscellaneous court papers. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Watauga. Affidavit, September 16, 1867. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Wilkes. 140 marriage bonds, 1780-1867; list of marriage licenses is-sued, November 4, 1880-December 6, 1880; and miscellaneous court papers. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. 5. Supreme Court Papers: Miscellaneous Supreme Court papers, 1857-1898; letter, August 21, 1861, K. Rayner to Justices of the Peace of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions. Appeal cases, transcripts of which were sent to Hertford County. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. 6. Executive Records: Buncombe County Land Entries, 1795. Original returns of United States Census of 1850, 12 volumes; 1860, 18 volumes; 1870, 22 volumes. Received from Secretary of State's Office. 5 volumes, accounts, etc., of construction of State Capitol, and 1 box of material. Given by State Treasurer's Office. Council of State Papers, 1929-1932, and Minutes of Council of State, 1929-1933, Gardner administration; Minutes of Board of Public Buildings and Grounds, 1925-1931, McLean and Gardner administra-tions. Given by Governor's Office. Comptroller's Statements, 1815. Given by Mr. Baxter Durham, State Auditor, Raleigh. 7. Newspapers: King's Weekly, Vol. I, No. 19. Greenville, N. C, May 17, 1895. Given by Mrs. Leon Anderson, Halifax. Journal—Extra, Wilmington, N. C, April 13, 1861. Given by Mr. John S. Beck, Washington, D. C. North Carolina Whig, Washington, N. C, Henry Dimock, editor, R. T. Rea, printer, March 28, October 29, 1844. (In each case pp. 1 and 2 only.) Given by Clerk of Superior Court, Hyde County. Henderson Daily Dispatch, No. 38, September 29, 1917. Contains list of Granville Grays who served in the Civil War. Given by Mrs. C. B. Cheatham, Raleigh. Daily Evening Star, Washington, D. C, Vol. I, No. 1, December 16, 1862. Given by Mr. Hubert B. Hunter, Raleigh, through Mr. H. H. Brimley, Raleigh. Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser, Baltimore. Printed by William Goddard, August 20, 1773. 2 copies. Given by Olivia Raney Library, Raleigh. The Evangelical Lutheran, 1868. Given by Mr. Earle Lutz, Richmond, Virginia. 8. Civil War: Sketch of Samuel Waddell Dickens. Newspaper clipping. Given by Mrs. E. L. Whitehead, Raleigh. "Captain Ashe Reviews War Between States." Given by Captain S. A. Ashe, Raleigh. List of North Carolina soldiers buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Shep-herdstown, W. Va. ; Confederate Memorial Dedication Elmwood Cemetery, Shepherdstown, W. Va., by Henry Kyd Douglas Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans, September 18, 1937 (2 copies); Maga-zine of the Jefferson County Historical Society, Vol. Ill, December, N. C. Historical Commission 9 1937. Given by Mr. Sam M. Hendricks, Henry Kyd Douglas Camp, Shepherdstown, W. Va. 9. World War: Sketches of Halifax County World War soldiers. Newspaper clipping. Given by Mrs. E. L. Whitehead, Raleigh. 10. Maps : Photostats of maps purchased from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: "Carte Des Deux Carolines et De La Georgie." "Carte De La Caroline Meredionale et Septentrionale Et De La Virginie." "A General Map of the Southern British Colonies . . . Plan of Charlestown. Plan of St. Augustine." (Inset.) Originals in the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 3 printed maps given by North Carolina State College Raleigh: "North Carolina." Map shows outline and names of counties. 32 7/8x12 7/16 inches. "North Carolina." Map shows name and county seat of each county. 31 7/8 x 11 inches. "North Carolina." Map shows outline and names of counties. 39 11/16x15 3/4 inches. Photostats of 2 John White maps: Map of Region occupied and ex-plored by Raleigh's Colony (from John White's drawing, now in the British Museum). Taken from Century Magazine, XXV, 73 (November, 1882). Map of Southern Part of Atlantic Coast of North America, showing the Strait leading from Port Royal to the So. (Drawn in 1685 by John White, Artist to Raleigh Colony. Published by permission of British Museum.) From Century Maga-zine, XXV, 66-67 (November, 1882). Given by Roanoke Island His-torical Association, Manteo. Negative photostats of 10 maps given by Roanoke Island Historical Association, Manteo: "Naval Battle of Roanoke Island, Battle of Roanoke Island, North Carolina." "Battle of Roanoke Island." "North Carolina." "A New Map of Carolina." By Robt Morden. "Lower Cape Fear Section and Adjacent Country . . . 1775." By Henry Mouzon. "North Carolina. . . ." By James Wimble, 1738. "Part of North America . . . 1709." By Jon Lawson. "A New Description of Carolina ..." [1676]. "The South Part of Virginia now the North Part of Carolina" [1657]. "Map of Virginia from De Dry's History of Virginia, p. 2. "An Accurate Map of North and South Carolina. . . ." 1775. By Henry Mouzon and others. London. Printed by Robt Sayer and J. Bennett. 56% x 19% inches. Photostat. Purchased from Joseph Merritt & Co., Hartford, Connecticut, courtesy of Dr. Burr, His-torical Records Survey, Washington, D. C. 2 maps given by the State Department of Conservation and Develop-ment, Raleigh: "North Carolina." No date. 8% x 31/2 inches. Printed. Shows outline and names of counties. "North Carolina." No date. 8 7/16x10 15/16 inches. Printed. Map shows outline and names of counties. 2 maps given by the State Highway and Public Works Commission, Raleigh: "State Highway System of North Carolina." 1936. 40 5/16x15 1/2 inches. Prepared by C. M. Sawyer. Printed. Illustrative col-ored map. 10 Seventeenth Biennial Report "State Highway System of North Carolina." 1936. 41% x 151/2 inches. Prepared by C. W. Sawyer & W. W. Hampton. Printed. "An Accurate Map of North and South Carolina . . . 1777." By Henry Mouzon and Others. . . . 151/2x20%; 151/2x2114, inches. Photostat in two sections. Original in possession of Mr. Lewis H. Parry, Mexico City, Mexico. Given by Mr. Josephus Daniels, Mexico City, Mexico. "Battle of Guilford, Fought on the 15th of March, 1781. London. Pub-lish'd March 1st 1787." 111/4x13 5/16 inches. Photostat. Pur-chased from Carolina Blue Printers through courtesy of Mr. Gavin Dortch, Raleigh. "Map of Wake County, Drawn from Actual Surveys by Feudal Bevers, County Surveyor." [1878.] 171/2x22; 15i4x21% inches. Photo-stat in two pieces. Chart of City of Raleigh on bottom of map. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers through courtesy of Mr. William Henry Shaw, Raleigh. "Map of Virginia." By Theodore De Bry. From De Bry's History of Yirginia, p. 2. Given by Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. "A Mapp of Virginia discovered to Ye Hills, and in its Latt: From 35 deg: & 1/2 neer. Florida to 41. deg: bounds of New England." By John Goddard. 1651. 11 x I41/2 inches. Photostat. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers through courtesy of Dr. Frederick Tilberg, Raleigh. "Plan of the Town of Halifax in Halifax County, North Carolina. . . . Survey's & Drawn in June 1769. By C. J. Sauthier." Photostat. Original in British Museum. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. 2 surveys for the Roanoke Colony Memorial Association (land pur-chased by the Association), November 28, 1896. Photostats pur-chased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh, through courtesy of Dr. Frederick Tilberg, Raleigh. Map of Davie County. Drawn by J. T. Alderman, 1887. Photostat. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh, through courtesy of Miss Mary J. Heitman, Mocksville. Roanoke Island. "This Plan represents Roanoke Island Containing Twelve thousand Acres of Land and Marsh, as it was surveyed Anno 1718 By W. Maule Surveyr Geni A true Coppy By E. Moseley Survr Geni 1729." Photostat. Original in possession of Mr. John Wood, Edenton. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers through courtesy of Mr. Wood. Purchased from Argosy Book Stores, Inc., New York, N. Y., 6 photostat copies: "The State of North Carolina from the Best Authorities." (Winter-botham). Eng. by B. Tanner. 16x19% inches. N. Y. John Reid. 1796. "North Carolina." (Drawn & Engraved by Joseph Scott). 6% x8i/i inches. (Phila., 1795). "North Carolina." (Arrowsmith & Lewis). Drawn by S. Lewis. Engr. by Tanner. Boston, 1804. 9xl0l^ inches. "Map of North & South Carolina." (Morse). By J. Denison. Engr. by Amos Doolittle. 8 x 91/2 inches. Phila., 1796. "North Carolina." Engr. by W. Barker. (Carey). 6i/4x9 inches. (Phila., 1796). 2 copies. "Proposed Fort Raleigh National Historic Site North Carolina." 11 x 8 14 inches. Photostat. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. "North Carolina. Areas recommended for new or closer settlement. April, 1936. Resettlement Administration division of land utiliza-tion land use planning section. Region IV, Raleigh." Colored chart, 24x1014 inches. Given by Resettlement Administration, Raleigh. N. C. Historical Commission 11 "Historical map of Virginia sliowing the main points of historic in-terest and the main traveled automobile routes." Prepared and copyrighted by the American Automobile Association, Washington, D. C. 11x181/4 inches. Printed. Given by Mr. McDaniel Lewis, Greensboro. The Old Northwest Territory. "Issued by the Northwest Territory Celebration Commission in collaboration with participating states." 16%x22 inches. Printed colored map. Given by Northwest Terri-tory Celebration Commission, Marietta, Ohio. "A Map of North Carolina for Nature Lovers." Published by The Garden Club of North Carolina. Colored illustrated map. 34 x 19 inches. 2 copies. Given by the Garden Club of North Carolina, Mrs. R. L. McMillan, President, Raleigh. "North Carolina. Department of Agriculture Crop Reporting Service, Raleigh, North Carolina. 1930." 22 x 9 3/16 inches. Printed. Given by Department of Agriculture Crop Reporting Service, Raleigh. Photostats of maps purchased from the Carolina Blue Printers, Ral-eigh, through the courtesy of Miss Ellen W. Wise, Richmond, Virginia: "A New and Accurate Map of North Carolina, and Part of South Carolina, with the Field of Battle between Earl Cornwallis and General Gates - London. Published as the Act directs, Novr. 30th, 1780 by J. Bew, Pater Noster Row. Jno. Lodge, Sculp." 15 1/16x10 11/16 inches. "North Carolina." [1796.] 7 11/16 x 5 7/8 inches. "North Carolina." [1805.] 7 3/4 x 5 13/16 inches. "North Carolina. Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of North Carolina. Drawn by E. Lucas, Jr." [1822.] 18 11/16 x 11 1/16 inches. "Map of North & South Carolina. 1825. By H. S. Tanner. Entered according to Act of Congress the 20th day of August 1823, by H. S. Tanner, of the State of Pennsylvania." 19 x 14% inches. "A New Map of Nth. Carolina with its Canals, Roads & Distances from place to place along the State & Steam Boat Routes. 1845. By H. S. Tanner." Insets of "Gold Region" and parts of "Craven and Jones" counties. 13 1/2x115/16 inches. "North Carolina. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1843 by Sidney E. Morse and Samuel Breese in the Clerks Office of the Southern District of New York." 15^4 x 12 inches. "North Carolina." [1856.] 15 5/16 x 12 1/16 inches. "North Carolina. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by J. H. Colton & Co. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of New York." Inset of Beaufort Harbor. 141^x11% inches. "North Carolina. [1856.] Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1855 by J. H. Colton & Co. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." Inset of Beaufort Harbor. 14 1/8x115/16 inches. "North Carolina. [1859.] Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by J. H. Colton & Co., in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." Inset of Beaufort Harbor. 14 1/8x117/16 inches. "North Carolina." [1850.] Inset of "Western Part of N. Carolina." 6 1/8x5 1/16 inches. "J. H. Colton's Map of North Carolina & South Carolina." [I860.] 10 11/16x7 7/8 inches. "County Map of Virginia and North Carolina. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1860 by S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. in the Clerks Office of the U. S. for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania." 13 1/^ x 10% inches. 12 Seventeenth Biennial Report "Colton's North Carolina. [I860.] Published by Johnson & Brown-ing, 172 "William St., New York. Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1855 by J. H. Colton & Co., in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." Inset of Beaufort Harbor. 14 x II14 inches. "Colton's North Carolina. [1864.] Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1855 by J. H. Colton & Co., in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." Inset of Beaufort Harbor. 11 1/16 x 11 3/8 inches. "A New and Accurate Map of North Carolina, and Part of South Carolina, with the Field of Battle between Earl Cornwallis and General Gates. London. Published as the Act directs, Novr. 30th, 1870 by J. Bew, Pater Noster Row. Jno. Lodge, Sculp." 15 1/16x10 11/16 inches. "Colton's North Carolina. Published by G. W. and C. B. Colton & Co., No. 172 William St., New York. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by J. H. Colton & Co. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." Inset of Beaufort Harbor. 14 x 11% inches. "Colton's North Carolina. [1875.] Published by B. W. and C. B. Colton & Co., No. 172 William St., New York. Entered according to Act of Congress in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." 14 3/16x117/16 inches. "North and South Carolina. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1850 by S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. in the Clerks Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania." Inset of "Map of Charleston Harbor," and "Plan of Charleston." 14 1/8x117/16 inches. "Caroline Septentrionale. [1810.] Carte Geogrophique, Statistique et Historique de la Caroline du Nord. Grave par B. de Beaupre, Rue de Vaugirard No. 81; d Paris." 17 7/8x10 13/16 inches. "North Carolina. [1838.] Morse & Tuttle, Sc." 8 x 10 inches. "A Map of North Carolina from the best Authorities." [1794.] Harrison, sc. 14 1/8x1117/16 inches. "A Map of the Lands of the Cranberry Iron and Coal Co. in Mitchell County, N. C." By J. R. Englebert, C. E. May, 1894. 23 x 19i^ inches. Linen drawing. Given by Mrs. E. B. Camp, Waynesville. 11. Genealogical: Historical Sketch of the Schenck and Bevens Families with an Appen-dix. Wa7-lick Genealogy. Printed. By Hon. David Schenck. Given by Dr. Bruce R. Payne, Nashville, Tennessee. 7 maps, 1 scrapbook, 22 folders of tombstone data, and other genealogi-cal material. Given by the Daughters of the American Revolution. List of Emigrants from Memoranda Relating to James Hogg of Hills-boro, 1774-1805, by Bishop Jos. B. Cheshire, Raleigh. Typescript. Given by Mrs. William Shaw West, Raleigh. Shiloh Church Records. Lutheran, (l^^ miles north of Lewisville, Forsyth County.) Typescript. Given by Dr. Adelaide L. Fries, Winston-Salem. "Mrs. A. R. Miller and her services to the Confederate Cause by her daughter, Mrs. H. O. Hyatt." Typescript. Given by Miss Sybil Hyatt, Kinston. Records kept by Joshua Harris, son of Wm. Harris, Sr., and grandson of Robert Harris, Sr., who came from Ireland. Copied by Joseph Marcus Harris, son of A. N. Harris. Given by Mr. I. L. Harris, Habana, Cuba. Tombstone Records. The Old Cemetery or "The Presbyterian Burying N. C. Historical Commission 13 Ground" in the City of Charlotte. Given by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Genealogical records. Granville County list of Revolutionary soldiers, family Bible records, cemetery records. North Carolina tombstone records, Lincoln County tombstone records; Virginia wills, copied by the Liberty Hall Chapter, Charlotte; Chatham County abstracts of deeds; Pennsylvania deeds; abstracts of North Carolina deeds and grants; Richmond County tombstone records; Mecklenburg County tombstone records; Elmwood Cemetery records, Charlotte; historic monuments and markers, Mecklenburg County; miscellan-eous records of Anson County. Typescript copies. Given by the Daughters of the American Revolution. North Carolina Bible Records, Church Records, and Genealogies. Com-piled by Alexander Martin Chapter, D. A. R., High Point. 1936. Typescript. Given by Alexander Martin Chapter, D. A. R., High Point. The Aydelott Family Association, Bulletin No. 20, July 28, 1937, and Bulletin No. 21, December 25, 1937. Printed. Given by Mr. George Carl Aydelott, New York, N. Y. William Whitfield and Allied lines. Copy . . . loaned by Mrs. Charles Duncan Bailey, Clarksville, Tennessee, . . . obtained from Mrs. Needham Lewis Whitfield, Clarksville, Tennessee. Typescript. Given by Mrs. L. P. Bosworth, Mount Kisco, New York. Reminiscences of Rev. John H. McLean, D. D. Typescript. 2 photo-stats of photographs of Hugh and Hector McLean. Life of Robert Daniell, 1642-1718, by Mrs. Leslie B. Clark. Typescript. Life of William Daniel, 1743-1840. Typescript. Photograph of his marker and its donor. Given by Mrs. Leslie B. Clark, Dallas, Texas. 12. Miscellaneous: The Catechism of the Protestant Episcopal Church, (Printed 1846-49) . . . ; A New Guide for Travelers through the United States of America, . . . 1850. Given by Mrs. William Shaw West, Raleigh. Article, "Twelve Years Preparation for the Passage of the Weeks Bill." By Joseph Hyde Pratt, August, 1936. Typescript. Silver Jubilee in observance of the passage of the Weeks Laio and the Extension of 'National Forests in the East, under the auspices of Society for the Protection of Neio Hampshire Forests and the United States Forest Service. Mount Washington Hotel, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, September 13, 14, 15, 1936. Printed. Given by Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. 3 letters: Dan'l Beidelman, Jr., to his father and mother, 1862, to-gether with his photograph. Purchased from Mr. J. E. Parrish, Henderson. Article, "Inlets along the Coast of North Carolina." Editors: Frank K. McClain, Lucy M. Cobb, and W. F. Marshall. Given by Federal Writers Project, North Carolina Districts 1, 2, and 4. Raleigh. 1 volume. Minutes of District Council of the Friends of Temperance for 3rd Judicial District, March, 1874-May, 1880. 1 deed, February 27, 1819, Lewis Bryan, Sheriff of Lenoir County, to John Washing-tQU. 1 volume, speeches by George Cookman of the Baltimore An-nual Conference and Chaplain to the United States Senate. 1842. Printed. Given by Miss Sybil Hyatt, Kinston. De Bry's Edition, 1590, of Harlot's Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia. Published in Frankfort, Germany. Pho-tostats loaned by Mr. Joseph B. Cheshire, Raleigh. Letters of Elizabeth Sterchi, 1867-1869, in Moravian Archives, Winston- Salem. Typescript copy. Footnotes prepared by Dr. Adelaide L. Fries. Given by Dr. Adelaide L. Fries, Winston-Salem. Historical Records Survey Inventories: Californa, No. 22, Marin County (San Rafael); Indiana, No. 6, Boone County (Lebanon); 14 Seventeenth Biennial Report Idaho, No. 34, Minidoka County (Rupert) ; Texas, No. 3, Municipal-ity of Brazoria, 1S32-1S37; Parish Arcliives of Louisiana, No. 45, Saint Charles' Parish (Hahnville); Missouri, No. 82, Pike County (Bowling Green); West Virginia, No. 38, Pocahontas County (Mar-linton); Kentucky, No. 34, Fayette County (Lexington); Kansas, No. 46, Johnson County (Olathe); Texas, No. 61, Denton County; Oklahoma, No. 51, Muskogee County (Muskogee); Kentucky, No. 61, Knox County (Barbourville) ; New York State, Albany County Archives; Washington, Pend Oreille County (Newport), No. 26; Illinois, No. 8, Carroll County (Mount Carroll); Mississippi, No. 3, Amite County (Liberty) ; South Dakota, No. 8, Buffalo County (Gann Valley); Oklahoma, No. 7, Bryan County (Durant); and Tennessee, No. 33, Hamilton County (Chattanooga), (2 copies). Given by the Historical Records Survey through Dr. Luther H. Evans, National Director, Washington, D. C. Memoirs in Moravian Archives, prepared by Dr. Adelaide L. Fries. Typescript. Given by Historical Records Survey, Raleigh. 20 Tennessee Census Reports, 1820: Bedford County, Davidson County, Hickman County, Humphreys County, Lawrence County, Lincoln County, Maury County, Montgomery County, Overton County, Perry County, Robertson County, Rutherford County, Shelby County, Smith County, Stewart County, Sumner County, Warren County, Wayne County, White County, and Wilson County. Type-script. Given by Miss Martha Lou Houston, Washington, D. C. Leaflet, "To be sold, one moiety or half Part of Roanoak . . . ." Con-tained in Mr. Edward A. Oldham's column, "North Carolina in New York." Wmston-Salem Sentinel, August 15, 1937. Printed. Given by Mr. Edward A. Oldham, New York. 13. Pamphlets: A 17th Century Letter of Gabriel Diaz Vay-a Calcleron, Bishop of Cuba, Describing the Indians and Indian Missions of Florida. . . . 1936. Given by Dr. Lucy L. Wenhold, Winston-Salem. Memorial to Confederate Soldiers. . . . Sept., IS, 1937; and Magazine of the Jefferson County Historical Society, Vol. Ill, December, 1937. Printed. Given by Mr. Sam M. Hendricks, Shepherdstown, W. Va. Historical Sketch, Ellerbe, N. C. Town Schools 82rri7igs. By A. D. Spivey. September 29, 1936. Printed from Post-Dispatch, October 1, 1936. Compliments Rockingham Post-Dispatch, Isaac S. London, Editor, with co-laboration of W. H. Covington. Printed. Given by Mr. A. D. Spivey, Ellerbe. Minutes of the Seventy-Sixth Annual Ses.sion Tennessee River Baptist Association . . . August 20-21, 1936. Printed. Given by Tennessee River Baptist Association, North Carolina. Ordinances for the Town of Kinston, N. C. for the year 1893-94. Print-ed. Given by Miss Sybil Hyatt, Kinston. Grove Presbyterian Chxirch, Kenansville. N. C. Bi-Centennial Celebra-tion. Sunday, Xor. 2U, 1936. Printed. Given by Mr. A. T. Outlaw, Kenansville. Directory of Federal Agencies and Departments in North Carolina. Compiled by the National Emergency Council .... (Revised Sep-tember 1, 1936.) Mimeographed. Given by Mr. R. M. Gantt, State Director, National Emergency Council, Durham. The Significance of the Transylvania Company in American History. By Archibald Henderson, President of The Transylvanians. De-livered at the Transylvania Memorial Celebration, Boonesborough, Kentucky, October 12, 1935. Printed. Given by Dr. Archibald Henderson, Chapel Hill. 1 volume. Minutes Epworth M. E. Church South, Raleigh, 1907-1911. 10 loose pages, 1911, and undated. 8 pamphlets. 1 jewelry catalogue. 7 speeches. The volume manuscript; the remainder printed. Given, by Miss Lillian Dodd, Raleigh. N. C. Historical Commission 15 A Dangerous Pamphlet in the Old South. By Clement Eaton. Re-printed from The Journal of Southern History. Vol. II, No. 3 (Au-gust, 1936). Given by Mr. Clement Eaton, Easton. Pa. The Prophet Joseph Smith Tells His Oicn Story. Printed. Rays of Living Light. By President Charles W. Penrose. Printed. The Plan of Salvation by Elder John Morgan. Printed. A card, "Arti-cles of Faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints." Given by Miss Lillian Dodd, Raleigh. "William Willard Ashe, f 1872-1932)." By William A. Dayton. Multi-graphed. Given by Mr. Wm. A. Dayton, Senior Forest Ecologist in charge of Range Forest Investigations in United States Department of Agriculture. The Constitution and By-Laics of the Catauba County Historical Asso-ciation. [1936.] Given by the Catawba County Historical Asso-ciation. Response to the Toast Our Sister State. By Justice Heriot Clarkson at Annual Banquet of the South Carolina Bar Association, Columbia, S. C, February 18, 1938. Printed. "Address of Heriot Clarkson . . . . , Founders' Day Anniversary . . . Johnson C. Smith Uni-versity, April 7, 1938." Mimeographed. Given by Justice Heriot Clarkson, Raleigh. Parish Directory of Christ Church. Raleigh, N. C, 1938. Printed. Star of the South. Published Monthly by Seaboard Air Line. March, 1891. Printed. Given by Mr. D. L. Corbitt, Raleigh. II. New Collections. 1. Personal Papers: John Huske Anderson Papers. Letters, deed, powers of attorney, etc. Given by Mr. John Huske Anderson, Raleigh. Sophia Partridge Papers. School accounts of private school, 1849-1865; 1 album, 1834-1839; 4 letters, 1861-64 and undated, from Sophia Partridge to Ellen Calhum (Mrs. Richard Seawellj; and 1 recipe. Given by Miss Sophia P. Busbee, Raleigh. George W. Connor Papers. Letter—Miss Lucy Edwards to Judge Con-nor, June 5, 1935. Tj-pescript. Pamphlet: Memoir of Xathaniel Macon, of Xorth Carolina, by Weldon N. Edwards. Raleigh, 1862. Printed. Given by Judge George W. Connor. Sally Joyner Davis Collection. 2 letters: R. R. Heath to Governor Thomas Bragg, Julj' 4, 1858, and Thomas Bragg to R. R. Heath, July 20, 1858. Given by Miss Sally Joyner Davis, Greenville. Mrs. Robert L. Gray Collection, 1792-1897. Deeds: Frederick Hargett, Willie Jones, and others to Ephraim Parsons, June 9, 1792; Thomas Hamilton to Patsey McKethan, 1806; Maria McKethan and Martha Brickell, January 9, 1826; Drury and Mary R. Lacy to Benjamin Rice Lacy, July 14, 1874; Benjamin R. Lacy, to Drury Lacy, Oct., 1879; Mrs. Grissy L. Ryan to Rev. Drury Lacy, Dec. 27, 1866. Loaned by Mrs. Robert L. Gray, Raleigh. John A. Green Collection, 1832-1857. 13 letters and accounts. Given by Mr. John A. Green, Wilson, through Miss Sophia P. Busbee, Raleigh. A. J. Maxwell Papers. Radio address "Neglected North Carolina," delivered by him November 17, 1937. Mimeographed. Given by Mr. A. J. Maxwell, Raleigh. General Lafayette Papers, 1825-1826. Letter from Lafayette to John McRae, Fayetteville, Jan. 27, 1826; address by Lafayette during his visit to Fayetteville in 1825; toast offered by him while there. Loaned by Mrs. Dora Virginia McRae, Chapel Hill. John A. Cobb Papers. 46 deeds, grants, etc., 1767-1875 and undated. Loaned by the heirs of John A. Cobb, 4 miles from Conetoe, N. C, through Mrs. J. L. Jackson, Raleigh. Albert Ray Newsome Papers. Address made at the unveiling of the D. A. R. Memorial in Raleigh, Jan. 28, 1936, by Dr. Albert Ray 16 Seventeenth Biennial Report Newsome, Head of Department of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Typescript copy. Given by Mrs. O. A. Lester, Raleigh. Cornelia S. MacMillan Collection. 64 grants and deeds, and Neil Mc- Millan's commission as lieutenant signed by Rd. Caswell, Sept. 22, 1787. Loaned by Miss Cornelia S. MacMillan, Red Springs. William M. Sweeny Collection. Photostat and typescript copy of a letter: Jas. Read to Gen. Sumner, Sept. 12, 1780. Given by Mr. William M. Sweeny, Astoria, N. Y. Mary B. Harding Collection. 1 letter, Jane A. Blakeley to Edward Jones, March 6, 1817. Given by Miss Mary B. Hardin, Salt Lake City, Utah. Kate McKimmon Papers. 242 letters, invitations, sketch of St. Mary's Chapel, engraving of A. N. McKimmon, and 13 cancelled stamps. Loaned by Mrs. Carl K. Hill, Raleigh. Mrs. Ray Palmer Collection. 7 deeds, 1796-1804, and 1 petition, 1850. Given by Mrs. Ray Palmer, Chevy Chase, Maryland. Strickland Papers. 16 business letters, deeds, etc., 1847-1870. Pur-chased from Mrs. R. A. Ricks, Raleigh. 2. Diaries: Typescript copies of diary of Rufus Barringer. The original diary was loaned to the Commission for copying by Mr. Osmond L. Bar-ringer, Charlotte, and later returned to him. Henry King Burgwyn, 1840-1848, 2 volumes; John Fanning Burgwyn, 1855-1856, 1 volume, diary and accounts. Loaned by Mrs. Thos. W. M. Long, Roanoke Rapids. 3. County Records: Granville County Records. Certified copy of marriage bond of Na-thaniel Macon and Hannah Plummer, 1783. Given by Miss Susan Davis, Oxford, through Miss Lillian Dodd, Raleigh. Onslow County Records. Wills of Jinkin Averitt, 1801, and Richard Averitt, 1800. Typescript copies given by Mrs. Louis A. Mahler, Raleigh. Marriage licenses: 43 from Friedburg, Davidson County, 1826-1860. 8 from Friedburg, Forsyth County, 1850-1859. 100 from Salem and Friedburg, Stokes County, 1843-1847. Given by Moravian Church in America, Southern Province, through Dr. Adelaide L. Fries, Winston-Salem. 4. Account Books: Ledger said to be that of John C. Ehringhaus, merchant, Elizabeth City. Given by Rev. George F. Hill, Elizabeth City. 93 miscellaneous account books, 1809-1915. Loaned by Person County Commissioners through courtesy of Mr. W. L. Younger, Roxboro. 251 miscellaneous account books from merchants of Wilson, Farmville, and other North Carolina towns. Given by Mr. Abram Slopack, Extension Division, State College, Raleigh. 5. Civil War: Special Order No. 6 [of General Sherman], April 27, 1865. Given by Mr. Cecil Bell, Raleigh. Confederate Scrap-Book, 1861-65. Prize winning scrap book compiled by Mary Vanice Laughlin, Tarboro, N. C. Also scrap book. State of North Carolina. Given by Miss Mary Vanice Laughlin, Tarboro. 6. Genealogy: "Parentage of Richard Dobbs Spaight (1758-1802) Governor of North Carolina." Typescript. Given by Mr. Edward T. Langford, Yonkers, N. Y. Birth certificate of Virginia Dare, August 18, 1587. Given by the State Board of Health, Raleigh. Records of births, deaths, and marriages of Nisbets and allied families. N. C. Historical Commission 17 1800-1887. Copied from fragments of a family Bible owned by Mrs. R. P. Townsend, Millbrook, and given by her. Three typescript copies. Toast to North Carolina by S. Janie Brown and a short sketch of her life by Mrs. James L. Josey of Scotland Neck, N. C. Given by Miss Ruth Davenport, Raleigh. Typescript and manuscript. Chart of Stephens-Massie lines. Given by Mrs. Nils Anderson, Plain-field, N. J. "Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary of Patrick Van Buren Webb and Fanny Hagins of Edgecombe County, N. C." Mimeographed. Given by Mr. Mark Byron, Jr., New York. Lithographed. Ann Arbor, Mich-igan: Edwards Brothers, Inc. 1936. Pp. xv, 1195. Given by the publishers. 7. Miscellaneous: Chart of "The Government of North Carolina." Prepared by North Carolina State Planning Board, October, 1937. Printed. Given by North Carolina State Planning Board, Raleigh. Reminiscences of Judge Walter A. Montgomery, 1843-1921. Typescript. Loaned by Mrs. Walter A. Montgomery, Raleigh. Broadside "To Tobacco Planters. The Inspection of Tobacco is revived in the Town of Clarksville, Situated on the Roanoke ... in County of Mecklenburg. . . . March, 1832." Printed sheet. 2 copies. Given by Mr. W. L. Younger, Roxboro. National Park Museum, Cherokee Indians, Items 12 through 18—1802. Given by Mr. H. C. Wilburn, Waynesville. Items 1 through 11, photostats. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh, through courtesy of Mr. Wilburn. Presentation speech by Dr. J. Fred Rippy introducing Dr. Ralph Mc- Donald during the political campaign of 1936. Typescript. Given by Dr. J. Fred Rippy, Durham. Hiram Lewis Grant—Commission as Additional Paymaster U. S. Vol-unteers, December, 1903. Given by Mr. Howard Snipes, Princeton. Geographical Notes on the Mountain District of North Carolina by Arnold Guyot, and Copy of Notes of Wm. Davenport. Survey N. C-Tenn. State Line (1821). (Copy of book of field notes.) Typescript. Given by Mr. W. C. Wilburn, Waynesville. "The Joseph Hewes Shipyard," by W. D. Pruden. Typescript. Given by Mr. W. D. Pruden, Edenton. Old books: 1 volume Book of Common Prayer and Bible bound to-gether. 1773. 1 volume bound newspapers, Halifax Minerva, Jan-uary 24, 1829-February 24, 1831. Halifax. Loaned by Mrs. Helen Marshall through Mr. Richard D. White, Baltimore. Fire Engine Co., No. 2. Minute Book, 1833-1853. Manuscript volume. Given by Mr. George McNeill, Fayetteville. Social Security Survey of Emergency Relief Cases Covered by the Federal Social Security Act. Mimeographed. Given by North Caro-lina Emergency Relief Administration, Mrs. Thomas O'Berry, Ad-ministrator, Raleigh. "County Histories of the United States of America." Compiled by F. Douglas Halverson. Reference book. Purchased from Mr. F. Douglas Halverson, Salt Lake City, Utah. Address, "The Historical Records Survey in North Carolina," by Dan Lacy, Assistant State Director, Historical Records Survey, Raleigh. Typescript. Given by Mr. Dan Lacy, Raleigh. Report of the Medicinal Plants, Roots, etc., grown in the State. Pre-pared for the Agricultural Society of . . . North Carolina . . . Raleigh, . . . Oct. 17-19. Manuscript. By A. A. Scroggs, Lenoir, Caldwell County. Given by Dr. R. W. Leiby, Raleigh. Copies of 17 letters of John J. Armfield, Guilford County. Typescript. Given by Historical Records Survey, Raleigh. "Some Poems of the Coast Lands," written and read by Rev. Andrew 18 Seventeenth Biennial Report J. Howell before the State Literary and Historical Association, December 3, 1937. Typescript. Given by Rev. Andrew J. Howell, Wilmington. Lists of Federal Archives in North Carolina. Typescript. Given by Survey of Federal Archives, Raleigh. Newspaper clipping from Massachusetts Federalist, Dec. 21, 1803, con-cerning discovery of gold in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. Pur-chased from Mr. E. H. Frost, Yonkers, N. Y. Transcripts of papers in Bayard v. Singleton. In Craven County Su-perior Court. New Bern Courthouse. Made by Miss Mary Louise Stapleford, May, 1937. Typescript. Given by Historical Records Survey, Raleigh. Photostat of a testimonial presented to Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, signed by constitutional officers and heads of departments. Pur-chased from Carolina Blue Printers through courtesy of Mr. Harry McMullan, Raleigh. Photostat of Plans of State Capitol Building, Atwood & Nash, Inc., Architects and Engineers, Chapel Hill, N. C. Measured and drawn by Philip Schwartz and Ross E. Shumaker, 1924. Scale, 14 inch to 1 foot. 18 pieces. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers through courtesy of Budget Bureau, Raleigh. Article, "Nathaniel Batts and the First Permanent Settlement in the Carolinas," by W. P. Gumming, Davidson. 1936. Typescript. Given by Dr. Gumming. 1 copy of Bulletin of the Archaelogical Society of North Carolina, Vol. Ill, No. 2, September, 1938. Mimeographed. Given by the Archaeo-logical Society of North Carolina. The First Hundred Years. A Short History of Cobb County in Georgia, by Sarah Blackwell Gober Temple. Printed. Given by Miss E. Katherine Anderson, Marietta, Georgia. Received by purchase from the Carolina Blue Printers the following photostats: Confederate States Copyright Records, 1858-1865; 10 title pages of books to be copyrighted; 4 letters 1862-64, from Wm. Bingham and Frank J. Wilson on copyrights. Included also is a copy of a letter from Dr. C. C. Crittenden to Dr. P. M. Hamer, November 13, 1936, concerning these records. History of Woodbury and Cannon County, Tennessee. 1936. Print-ed. Given by Miss Grace Christine Brown, Woodbury, Tennessee. 8. Pamphlets: North Carolina Biological Survey, Bulletin No. 1 . . . 1893. Printed. Given by Mrs. E. B. Camp, Waynesville. Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, October, 1935. Printed. Given by Miss Mae McMichael, Washington, D. C. Year Book of the National Society of United States Daughters of 1812, State of Tennessee, June 1, 1933-June 1, 1935. Organized May 7, 1909. Contains list of soldiers of War of 1812 buried in Tennessee. Compiled by Mrs. L. W. McCown and Mrs. W. P. Bailey. Printed, Given by Mrs. Leonidas W. (Mary Harden) McCown, Johnson City, Tennessee. The Moravian Graveyard, Salem, N. C, by William A. Blair. Printed. Given by Mr. William A. Blair, Winston-Salem. Hodge's North-Carolina Almanack for the year of our Lord 1199. Pur-chased from Mr. C. F. Cagney, State Prison, Raleigh. "Geography of North Carolina." Set of questions and answers. Com-piled by Fifth Grade of Franklinton Public School, Franklinton, N. C. Lessie V. Chandler, teacher. Published by Betsy Winston. Mimeographed. Given by Miss Lessie V. Chandler, Franklinton. Memorial of Nash Cheek. Printed. Given by Mrs. Margaret Chapin, Raleigh. Report of the Roanoke Colony Commission of the United States, Joseph T. Robinson, Chairman. Submitted to the 72nd Congress N. C. Historical Commission 19 of the U. S., Jan. 14, 1933. Printed. Given by Dr. Frederick Til-berg, Raleigh. 200th Anniversary of the building of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. . . . By Rt. Rev. Thomas C. Darst, D. D., Bishop. Rev. Charles Aylett Ashhy. Rector. Printed. Given by Mrs. J. M. Winfree, Raleigh. Address, North Carolina Prophets and the Twentieth Century. Deliv-ered by William T. Polk before the annual meeting of the State Literary and Historical Association, December 3, 1936. Printed. Given by Mr. William T. Polk, Warrenton. Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, North Carolina edi-tion, September, 1936. Printed. Given by Mrs. R. R. Stone, Wil-mington. DIVISION OF DOCUMENTS I. Classification and Arrangement. Most of the accessions listed in this report have been classified, arranged, and filed during the biennium. They comprise ap-proximately 95,000 pieces of miscellaneous court papers from Bertie, Burke, Gates, and Pasquotank counties and from Morgan District; 40 maps; 10 issues of newspapers; and miscellaneous items. II. Cataloging. Some cataloging has been done, but since classification and arrangement have had to be undertaken first, much cataloging is yet to be done. During the biennium approximately 1,200 volumes from the office of the Secretary of State, the State Treasurer, and the Comptroller, as well as volumes from Wake, Burke, and Wilkes counties, have been cataloged. About 500 vol-umes of personal account books have been cataloged. The 93,000 pieces of miscellaneous court papers mentioned above have been cataloged. The National Youth Administration project has com-pleted abstracting all of the marriage bonds (664 boxes) and has verified the contents of 651 of these boxes. Of the latter, 159 boxes have been alphabetized and typed. All newspapers and maps received during the biennium have been cataloged. III. Repair. The Restorer of Manuscripts has prepared 15,373 sheets of manuscript for binding. Of these, 8,542 sheets were mended with tissue paper, 367 were covered with crepeline, 40 were reinforced on the back with heavy paper, and 369 were treated with gelatine size (a process recently adopted by the Restorer). Of these sheets, 12 volumes were bound by the Restorer in loose-leaf binders and 99 volumes were made ready for the bindery. 20 Seventeenth Biennial Report Approximately 33,000 small pieces of paper with arsenate of lead (insect poison) spread upon them were placed in boxes of manu-scripts in the archives. IV. Binding. The following volumes were bound or rebound during the biennium : Indexes to marriage bonds of various counties. Typed. 18 volumes. First Census of the United States. Printed. 11 volumes. The No7-th Carolina Historical Review, Vol. Xlll (1936). 14 copies. Ihid., Vol. XIV (1937). 14 copies. Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Censuses of the United States (1850, 1860, and 1870). Original manuscript returns. 52 volumes. Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Beaufort County. Manuscript. 1 volume. Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Hyde County. Manuscript. 1 volume. V. Use of Records : During the biennium visits to the offices of the Commission for the purpose of consulting the manuscript records of North Caro-lina history numbered 3,423. Of these, 2,646 were made by North Carolinians; and 777 were made by persons from Ala-bama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Ken-tucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minne-sota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Caro-lina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Vir-ginia, Wisconsin, Canada, and England—a total of thirty-four states, the District of Columbia, and two foreign countries. Of the total number of visits, 719 were made by graduate students and faculty members of various educational institutions, and other persons engaged in serious research. Among the col-leges and universities represented were the following: the University of North Carolina, Duke University, Miner Teachers' College, Elon College, Teachers' College at Buffalo, New York, St. Mary's School, Ohio State University, Vanderbilt University, Meredith College, the University of Durham, England, New York University, Harvard University, the University of Virginia, and Davidson College, Among the topics of research in which these visitors were engaged were: land titles in western North Carolina, Loyalism in North Carolina during the American Revolution, the middle classes in North Carolina before 1861, a history of Alamance N. C. Historical Commission 21 County, the Southern free Negro before the Civil War, the life of Peter Stuart Ney, the life of E. J. Hale, population move-ments and linguistic changes, the state university movement in the South before 1861, the history of plank roads in North Caro-lina, a biography of G. W. Campbell, the secession movement in North Carolina, the administration of Governor Daniel Russell, the business activities of John Gray Blount and his family, the cartography of early Carolina, a biography of Governor Mont-fort Stokes, the life of L. L. Polk, an historical novel on Recon-struction in North Carolina, a biography of James Iredell, the history of Fort Fisher, the life of Joseph Blount Cheshire, the history of tobacco in North Carolina and Virginia since 1860, land distribution in eighteenth-century North Carolina, the his-tory of lotteries in North Carolina, the beginnings of scientific forestry in North Carolina, Zebulon B. Vance as Civil War governor, the life of John Forsythe, ratification of the Federal Constitution in North Carolina, the battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, and the mercantile activities of Thomas Macknight, colonial merchant and planter. A total of 616 certified copies from the records of the Com-mission, necessary for pension claims and for admission to patriotic societies, have been prepared and furnished without charge to North Carolinians and others. Of these, 366 were supplied to North Carolinians, and 250 to persons outside the state, as follows: Alabama, 3; Arkansas, 13; Colorado, 3; Dis-trict of Columbia, 38; Florida, 13; Georgia, 44; IlHnois, 4; Indiana, 17; Kentucky, 3; Louisiana, 4; Maryland, 2; Michigan, 1 ; Missouri, 23 ; Mississippi, 12 ; New Mexico, 2 ; New York, 17 ; North Carolina, 366; Oklahoma, 3; Oregon, 2; South Carohna, 11; Tennessee, 15; Texas, 6; Virginia, 13; West Virginia, 1. Research has been done by the staff to establish the eligibility of many Civil War and Revolutionary soldiers for gravestones which are suppled by the United States War Department. During the biennium more than 5,000 letters have been writ-ten in the conduct of the business of the Commission. Questions concerning the history of North Carolina, often involving re-search by members of the staff, have been answered in many cases, but inquiries of a personal or genealogical nature have been referred to independent researchers or genealogists. In order to answer fully all genealogical inquiries the state would 22 Seventeenth Biennial Report have to spend $10,000 or more annually, and the expenditure of so large an amount of public funds in order to serve a private purpose would hardly seem justifiable. PUBLICATIONS Among the most essential functions of the Historical Com-mission is the publication of materials relating to North Caro-lina history. During the biennium the program along this line has been continued, and the following publications have been issued : 1. Bulletin No. 3S. Sixteenth Biennial Report of the North Carolina Historical Commission, July 1, 1934-June 30, 1936. (Raleigh: 1936. Pp. 31.) 2. The North Carolina Historical Review. Volumes XIII, Nos. 3-4; XIV, Nos. 1-4; XV, Nos. 1-2. (Raleigh: 1936-38. Pp. 204; 430; 182.) The eight issues of this quarterly journal have contained 22 articles and 11 sec-tions of documents, in addition to book reviews and historical news. 3. The Historical Records of North Caroliiia. Volume I, Alamance- Columbus. Prepared by the Historical Records Survey of the Works Prog-ress Administration. Edited by C. C. Crittenden and Dan Lacy. (Raleigh: 1938. Pp. xii, 491.) In press is: The Historical Records of North Carolina, Volume II, Craven-Moore. Prepared by the Historical Records Survey of the Works Progress Administration. Edited by C. C. Crittenden and Dan Lacy. In preparation are the following : 1. The Historical Records of North Carolina. Additional volumes con-taining lists of the remaining county records, the state records, public manuscript collections, church records, and miscellaneous manuscript ma-terials. 2. History of the North Carolina Counties. By D. L. Corbitt. 3. Records of the Moravians in North Carolina. Edited by Adelaide L. Fries. Volume V. 4. Handbook of Historical Highway Markers in North Carolina. HISTORICAL MARKERS The historical highway marker program, authorized by the Legislature in 1935 and conducted co-operatively by the High-way and Public Works Commission, the Department of Con-servation and Development, and the Historical Commission, has been continued. During the early part of the biennium the necessary research and travel were done mainly by the Collector for the Hall of History, but this arrangement, which took her away too much from her regular duties, was found unsatisfac-tory and was abandoned. For several months the work was almost at a standstill, but in March, 1938, a special appropria-tion was made for this purpose from the Contingency and Emergency Fund, Miss Marybelle Delamar was placed on the N. C. Historical Commission 23 pay roll as Researcher-Highway Markers, and the program was resumed. Each legend was approved by the historians of the Executive Committee on Historical Markers, who without remuneration generously gave many hours of their time. These historians were A. R. Newsome, H. T. Lefler, and Cecil Johnson of the University of North Carolina ; D. A. Lockmiller and L. W. Earn-hardt of State College ; F. W. Clonts and G. W. Paschal of Wake Forest College ; W. K. Boyd, W. A. Mabry, and J. T. Lanning of Duke University ; and T. W. Lingle and F. W. Johnston of David-son College. During the biennium the legends for 87 markers (making a total of 139 since the beginning of the program) were sent to the foundry, as follows: HOME OF THOMAS J. JARVIS, Currituck Countv. "HOPE," THE BIRTHPLACE OF DAVID STONE, Bertie County. SITE OF THE BATTLE OF SOUTH MILLS, Camden County. "HAYES," THE HOME OF SAMUEL JOHNSTON, Chowan County. SITE OF "EDEN HOUSE," Bertie County. CHOWAN COUNTY COURTHOUSE, Chowan County. DISMAL SWAMP CANAL, Camden County. FIRST ASSEMBLY, Pasquotank County. FIRST SCHOOL, Pasquotank County. SITE OF BATTLE OF ROANOKE ISLAND, Dare County. ST. THOMAS CHURCH, Beaufort County. KILL DEVIL HILL, Dare County. SITE OF "KIRBY GRANGE," THE HOME OF CHRISTOPHER GALE, Beaufort County. FIRST PUBLIC LIBRARY, Beaufort County. GRANVILLE GRANT, Hyde County. BATTLE OF PLYMOUTH, Washington County. PLACE WHERE RAM ALBEMARLE WAS SUNK, Washington County. FORT MACON, Carteret County. LANDING OF BARON DE GRAFFENRIED, Craven County. BATTLE OF NEW BERN, Craven County. SITE OF FORT TOTTEN, Craven County. GRAVE OF ALEXANDER LILLINGTON, Pender County. FORT JOHNSTON, Brunswick County. FORT CASWELL, Brunswick County. HOME OF THOMAS BRAGG, Northampton County. ROCKY MOUNT MILLS, Nash County. MASONIC LODGE, Halifax County. SITE OF "THE GROVE," HOME OF W^ILLIE JONES, Halifax County. HOME OF MATT W. RANSOM, Northampton County. HOME OF CHARLES BRANTLEY AYCOCK, Wayne County. GRAVE OF RICHARD CASWELL, Lenoir County. PLACE WHERE JOHN LAWSON WAS KILLED, Greene County. GROVE CHURCH, Duplin County. GRAVE OF WILLIAM HOOPER, Orange County. FARM ON WHICH BRIGHT LEAF TOBACCO WAS FIRST GROWN, Caswell Countv. CASWELL COUNTY COURTHOUSE, Caswell County. SITE OF HOME OP FRANCIS NASH, Orange County. GRAVE OF THOMAS RUFFIN, Orange County. OXFORD ORPHANAGE, Granville County. "ROSE HILL," HOME OF BEDFORD BROWN, Caswell County. 24 Seventeenth Biennial Report GRAVE OF ARCHIBALD DEBOW MURPHEY, Orange County. SITE OF GOVERNOR'S PALACE, Wake County. WAKE FOREST COLLEGE, Wake County. SITE OP "ROCKREST," WHERE CAPTAIN JOHNSTON BLAKELEY LIVED, Chatham County. BIRTHPLACE OF ANDREW JOHNSON, Wake County. GRAVE OF JOHN OWEN, Chatham County. JOHN CHAVIS MEMORIAL PARK, Wake County. GRANVILLE GRANT, Chatham-Lee line. SITE OF HOME OF WM. RUFUS KING, Sampson County. SITE OF HOME OF GABRIEL HOLMES, Sampson County. SITE OF HOME OF JOHN OWEN, Bladen County. SITE OF BIRTHPLACE OF DOLLY MADISON, Guilford County. "LAND OF EDEN," Rockingham County. BROTHERS HOUSE, Forsyth County. SHALLOW FORD, Forsyth County. TOMB OF WALTER HINES PAGE, Moore County. SITE OF HOME OF JONATHAN WORTH, Randolph County. TRINITY COLLEGE, Randolph County. SITE OF HOME OF FLORA MacDONALD, Randolph County. SANDY CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH AND GRAVE OP SHUBAEL STEARNS, Randolph County. SITE OP CONFEDERATE PRISON, Rowan County. LAST FULL MEETING OF CONFEDERATE CABINET, Mecklenburg County. HOUSE IN WHICH JEFFERSON DAVIS SPENT THE NIGHT, Ca-barrus County. BRANCH OP U. S. MINT, Mecklenburg County. REED GOLD MINE, Cabarrus County. HOME OP NATHANIEL ALEXANDER, Cabarrus County. DAVIDSON COLLEGE, Mecklenburg County. THYATIRA CHURCH, Rowan County. BIRTHPLACE OF ANDREW JACKSON, Union County. HOME OF JOHN W. ELLIS, Rowan County. GRANVILLE GRANT, Rowan-Cabarrus county line. HOME OF MONTFORD STOKES, Wilkes County. GRAVES OF DANIEL BOONE'S PARENTS, Davie County. FORT DEFIANCE, Caldwell County. WALDENSIANS, Burke County. QUAKER MEADOWS, Burke County. PLEASANT GARDENS, McDowell County. YELLOW MOUNTAIN ROAD, Avery County. BATTLE OF RAMSOUR'S MILL, Lincoln County. GILBERT TOWN, Rutherford County. SUMMER HOME AND GRAVE OP C. G. MEMMINGER, Henderson. County. BIRTHPLACE OF DAVID L. SWAIN, Buncombe County. HOME AND GRAVE OP EDGAR W. ("BILL") NYE, Henderson County. SITE OF "HIGH HAMPTON," THE SUMMER HOME OF WADE HAMPTON, Jackson County. GRAVE OF JUNALUSKA, Graham County. SPOT WHERE TSALI SURRENDERED TO GENERAL SCOTT, Swain County. JUDACULLA ROCK, Jackson County. N. C. Historical Commission 25 STIMULATION OF HISTORICAL INTEREST AND INVESTIGATION In many ways the Historical Commission has worked to stim-ulate interest and promote research in history, especially North Carolina history. In the Commission's archives are vast quanti-ties of state and county records and of personal papers. These have been made constantly available to the public, and members of the Commission's staff have assisted researchers in every way possible. Hundreds of queries on the history of the state have been answered. The published volumes and pamphlets of the Commission, together with its quarterly journal, The North Carolina Historical Revieiv, have publicized many phases of the state's history. The Secretary of the Commission has made numerous addresses over the radio and directly to patriotic and historical groups. He has represented the Commission at the annual meetings of the American Historical Association and of the Southern Historical Association. He has been appointed Chairman of the Committee on the Publication of Archival Ma-terial of the Society of American Archivists. Mr. D. L. Corbitt attended the 1937 session of the Society of American Archivists, and Miss Mattie Erma Edwards was present the same year at the annual session of the Association of American Museums. The historical highway marker program (see above, pp. 22-24) and the various Works Progress Administration projects with which the Commission has cooperated (see below, pp. 31-33) have resulted in increased public interest in matters historical. HALL OF HISTORY During the past biennium three persons have served as Col-lector for the Hall of History: Miss Marybelle Delamar (Acting Collector), July 1, 1936-March 31, 1937; Mrs. Caroline String-field (Acting Collector), April 1-July 31, 1937; and Miss Mattie Erma Edwards, August 1, 1937-June 30, 1938. Miss Edwards had been on leave of absence since February 9, 1936, serving as Assistant Regional Director of the Survey of Federal Archives. During the first part of the biennium it was necessary for the Collector to spend almost all her time in research for historical highway markers. For the past year, however, she has devoted her full time to the museum. One of the most important accomplishments of the past year was to plan the space tentatively allotted to the Hall of History in the new state office building, now under construction. In an 26 Seventeenth Biennial Report effort to make certain that the new quarters would incorporate architectural features needed to develop a modern, effective his-torical museum, the Collector visited museums in other cities and consulted authorities in the museum field. The new quarters have been planned as nearly in accordance with modern trends in museum design as has seemed possible in a building most of which is to be used for offices. Enlarged space will make possible a much needed reorganiza-tion of exhibits, and careful plans have been worked out for this purpose. The various collections have been analyzed and are to be arranged by subject and by period. The division of the new quarters into a number of separate rooms will make it possible to follow these plans effectively. The Collector planned and arranged the Fort Raleigh Museum exhibit for the celebration on Roanoke Island of the 350th anni-versary of the coming of the "Lost Colony," 1937. She assisted in arranging the exhibits for the same museum the following year. In the fall of 1937 a special exhibit commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Federal Constitution was arranged in the Hall of History. In March, 1938, an exhibit of North Carolina in the Revolution was prepared at the Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, in connection with the annual state convention of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Much thought has been given to the problem of erecting a suitable memorial to the late Col. Fred A. Olds, creator of the Hall of History. Such a memorial was authorized by the Legis-lature in 1937, when $500 was appropriated for the purpose. In accordance with the modern museum practice of erecting "living" memorials in the form of special memorial exhibits, the His-torical Commission, following the recommendation of the Col-lector, resolved that the Olds memorial should take the form of a special exhibit on the history of transportation in North Caro-lina. A model of the airplane used by the Wright brothers in their famous flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903 has been secured, and arrangements have been made to obtain models of the Hattie Butner stagecoach, of a Nissen covered wagon, and of other vehicles relating to the history of the state. No stone is being left unturned in the effort to provide a memorial which will be worthy of the founder of the museum. As in past years, tens of thousands of visitors have come to the Hall of History. Classes of school children, who formed a N. C. Historical Commission 27 large proportion of the visitors, have been shown the various exhibits. The Collector has co-operated with the schools by giv-ing talks on special topics to history classes and by helping individual children obtain information on topics assigned to them. She prepared the script for Tar Heel Tales, a series of radio broadcasts from Station WPTF, Raleigh, in the spring of 1938. Since in the past the acceptance of loans has given rise to various problems, this practice has now been abandoned except in rare cases. Loans are now accepted only upon the advice of a special advisory committee. Material accessioned during the biennium is as follows : Books: 1. Facsimile of Thomas Hariot, A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia. London, 1588. Given by Dr. Randolph G. Adams, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 2. Lionel Yexley, The Third Great War Number of the Fleet Annual and Year Book. London, 1917. Loaned by Mr. Frank King, Raleigh. Clothing : 1. Dress-coat and hat worn by R. M. Saunders and court dress and train worn by Mrs. Saunders at the Spanish court when the former was minister to Spain. Given by Mrs. Bradley S. Johnson, Richmond, Virginia. . 2. Pair of hand-tanned leather shoes. Loaned by Mrs. V^. B. Humphries, Woodsdale. 3. Two ladies' hats made about 1857. Given by Mr. J. E. Adams, Raleigh. 4. Silk scarf with map of Greenville, South Carolina. Loaned by Mrs. N. E. Edgerton, Sr., Raleigh. 5. Gloves, fur cap, and fur cape of General James G. Martin. Given by Miss Lida S. Martin, Norfolk, Virginia. Coins: 1. Virginia Dare-Sir Walter Raleigh commemorative half-dollar. Given by Roanoke Island Historical Society, Manteo. 2. Four Spanish milled dollars, and one quarter-dollar. Given by Mr. Southgate Jones, Durham. Currency : 1. Two North Carolina five-cent notes, 1863. Given by Mr. Amos P. Breneisor, Scranton, Pennsylvania. 2 Two five-cent notes, one ten-cent note, one fifty-cent note, and one dollar note, all issued by the Bank of Tennessee, December 1, 1861. Given by Mr. W. McK. Bryan, Hermitage, Tennessee. 3. Twenty-dollar Confederate note. Given by Miss Sophie D. Busbee, Raleigh. ,^ tt i-. 4. One-hundred-dollar certificate of exchange, 1865. Given by Mr. H. B. Hunter, Raleigh. . .-, .-^ 5 Three pieces North Carolina colonial currency and eight pieces North Carolina currency issued during the Civil War. Given by Mr. South-gate Jones, Durham. .^ .. . o. ^ 5. One collection North Carolina bank notes. Given by United States District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina, Raleigh. Flags : 1. Henry Clay campaign banner. Given by Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Camp, Sanford. 28 Seventeenth Biennial Report 2. Two Whig campaign banners, 1840. Given by Miss Bettie Caldwell, Greensboro. 3. Confederate flag of the Fourth Regiment, North Carolina State Troops. Given by Mr. James R. Seltzer, Steubenville, Ohio. 4. Confederate flag which was flown over Fort Caswell during the Civil War. Given by Mrs. John Huske Anderson, Raleigh. 5. Confederate flag made by the women of Washington, North Carolina, and presented to the Washington Grays. Loaned by Mr. James Mc- Kimmon Saunders, Williamston. 6. Fragment of regimental flag presented to the Pamlico Rifles during the Civil War. Loaned by Mr. James McKimmon Saunders, Wil-liamston. 7. North Carolina flag, design adopted 1861. Loaned by Mr. Samuel W. Worthington, Wilson. 8. North Carolina flag, present design. Given by United States Flag and Signal Company, Norfolk, Virginia. Maps : 1. Historical map of Rowan County. Given by Miss Carrie Hammer, Salisbury. 2. Photostat map of the world from Sebastian Munster, Cosmographiae Universalis, Lib. VI. Basileae, 1550. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. Miscellaneous : 1. Medal commemorating 350th anniversary of the birth of Virginia Dare, Given by Dr. C. C. Crittenden, Raleigh. 2. Desk of Miss Sophia Partridge, teacher in Raleigh. Given by Miss Sophia Partridge Busbee, Raleigh. 2. Section of hand-made rope of basswood bark. Given by Mr. H. C. Wilburn, Waynesville. 4. Gavel made from holly tree which grew at Fort Raleigh. Loaned by State Literary and Historical Association of North Carolina. 5. Pair of wool cards. Given by Mrs. Ada C. Ehrman, Raleigh. 6. Six Indian arrowheads. Given by Mr. Horace Faulkner, Dover. 7. Three loving cups awarded for accomplishment in music and poetry Loaned by North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs. 8. Footwarmer. Loaned by Mrs. T. A. Brooks, Bath. 9. Wax doll of 1870. Given by Miss Lizzie Lee, Raleigh. 10. Piece of cloth used in the wings of the Wright aeroplane. Given by Mrs. K. B. Blood, New York. 11. Sewing kit which formerly belonged to Miss Sophia Partridge. Given by Miss Sophia Partridge Busbee, Raleigh. 12. Piece of beam from the White House. Given by Mrs. Charles F. Taylor, Goldsboro. 13. Hand-worked sampler. Loaned by Mrs. Margaret Chapin, Raleigh. 14. Self-acting blow torch. Given by Mr. Billy Howell, Raleigh. Pictures : 1. Moss picture of house near Pittsboro in which Cornwallis is said to have spent the night on his march to Wilmington after the battle of Guilford Courthouse, 1781. Made by Mrs. Lucy W. Jackson. Given by Miss Carrie Jackson, Pittsboro. 2. Crayon portrait of Kiffin Rockwell. Given by Mrs. Loula Rockwell and Mr. Paul A. Rockwell, Asheville. 3. Miniature of William Francis Collins. Bequeathed by Miss Katherine W. Collins, New Orleans, Louisiana. 4. Photograph of Judaculla rock. Given by Mr. Thomas A. Cox, CuUow-hee. 5. Photograph of Kiffin Rockwell II with portrait of Kiffin Rockwell, taken at the unveiling of the portrait of Kiffin Rockwell listed above. Given by Mr. J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, Jr., Raleigh. 6. Photograph of the birthplace of Governor Vance. Given by Mrs. Edith W. Tait, Montreat. N. C. Historical Commission 29 7. Drawing of "Pleasant Gardens," the Joseph McDowell home, McDowell County. Given by Mrs. A. G. Barnett, Asheville. 8. Photograph of a Negro baptism about 1903, "Wake County. Given by Miss Sophie D. Busbee, Raleigh. 9. Daguerreotype of Captain William Hamilton Overman. Given by Mrs. B. K. Van Wyck, Anderson, South Carolina. 10. Oil portrait of John White, agent for the state of North Carolina to Great Britain during the Civil War. Given by Mr. John W. Arrington, Greenville, South Carolina. 11. Picture of crypt of John Paul Jones in the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Given by Mrs. Charles F. Taylor, Goldsboro. 12. Engraving of Joseph Holden, Albion Tourgee, Robert W. Winston, James A. Weston, A. C. Wilson, Charles D. Mclver, John Pool, and John A. Wheeler. Given by Mr. Charles L. van Noppen, Greensboro. 13. Photostat negative of Visscher engraving of London, 1616. Given by Roanoke Island Historical Association, Manteo. 14. Nine photographs of Indian mound in Montgomery County and cere-monies initiating excavation of the mound by the North Carolina Archeological Society. Purchased from The Journal-Sentinel, Winston- Salem. 15. Photographs of paintings of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Richard Grenville. Purchased from Mr. Albert Barden, Raleigh. 16. Photograph of ruins of Saint Philips Church at old Brunswick. Given by Mr. H. K. Witherspoon, Raleigh. 17. Photograph of exterior of John Gray Blount home in Washington, N. C. Given by Mrs. William B. Rodman, Washington. 18. Lithograph of monument at Fort Raleigh. Given by Miss Mary Thorn-ton, Chapel Hill. 19. Photograph of engraving of Elizabeth Throckmorton. Purchased from Mr. Albert Barden, Raleigh. 20. Thirty-nine photographs of Indian mounds in North Carolina. Given by Mr. H. C. Wilburn, Waynesville. 21. Photographs of home of William Blount near New Bern, Richard Dobbs Spaight's grave, and historic cypress tree at New Bern. Given by Miss Gertrude Carraway, New Bern. 22. Photograph of birthplace of Daniel Boone, marker to Boone at Farm-ington, North Carolina, and foundation of Boone cabin at Farmington. Given by Mr. George H. Maurice, Eagle Springs. 23. Two photographs of Franklin County courthouse. Given by Dr. D. T. Smithwick, Louisburg. 24. Photograph of marble statuette of George Washington in Virginia Historical Society. Given by Mr. L. McK. Judkins, Richmond, Va. 25. Five prints from nineteenth century magazines illustrating historic events in North Carolina. Purchased from American Library Service, New York. 26. Photographs of scenes at New Garden (Guilford College) in 1874-75. Purchased from Mr. M. C. Henley, Guilford College. 27. Photograph of Robert E. Lee. Given by Dr. C. C. Crittenden, Raleigh. 28. Six photostats of engravings of Indians from De Bry edition of Harlot's Virginia. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. 29. Photograph of Fred A. Olds. Given by Mrs. Alexander Krett, Raleigh. 30. Eight pictures of items related to 0. Henry. Purchased from Mr. Early W. Bridges, Greensboro. 31. Souvenir calendar of Bath, 1905. Given by Mrs. W. B. Rodman, Wash-ington. 32. Nineteen photographs of articles owned by Richard Dobbs Spaight and the Blount family. Purchased from Mr. Elliot Lyman Fisher, Asheville. 33. Photograph of miniature of Maurice Moore. Purchased from Mr. Albert Barden, Raleigh. 34. Pictures of the Presidents of the United States. Given by Mrs William West, Raleigh. 30 Seventeenth Biennial Report 35. Eleven photostats showing methods used by Indians in making various articles. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. 36. Photograph of remains of home of Anna MacNeill (mother of James Whistler, the artist) near Clarkton. Given by Mrs. William H. Elliott, Fayetteville. 37. Print covering the erecting card of the old locomotive "Raleigh." Given by Mr. E. L. Roy, Norfolk, Virginia. 38. Photostats of pictures of the old hotel at Kittrell, tobacco warehouse at Durham, and the first steamboat on the Cape Fear. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. 39. Photostats of pictures showing methods of transporting tobacco in the 18th and 19th centuries. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. 40. Photostat drawings followed in constructing boats in Fort Raleigh museum representing vessels used to bring colonists to Roanoke Island in the 16th century. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. 41. Photostat diagram showing position of discoidal stones and "bowling alley" uncovered in the excavation of an Indian mound in Georgia. Given by the Roanoke Island Historical Association, Manteo. Photostats and Facsimiles of Documents : 1. Photostats of three broadsides issued in North Carolina on the Federal Constitution. Purchased from the United States Constitution Sesqui-centennial Commission, Washington, D. C. 2. Facsimiles of the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Purchased from United States Constitution Sesqui-centennial Commission, Washington, D. C. 3. Photostat of letter from George Washington to Richard Dobbs Spaight concerning the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. 4. Photostat of order of Chowan County court, 1747, setting rates to be charged by ordinary keepers. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. 5. Photostat of bond given by Elizabeth Horniblow, Richard Benbury, and James Horniblow, 1803, for license to operate ordinary at Edenton. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. 6. Photostat of first page of log book of the schooner Franklin, April, 1788. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. 7. Photostat of bill of lading for goods shipped on the sloop Salley from New Port to North Carolina, July 26, 1769. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. Photostats of Title Pages and Text of Books: 1. Title page of Sebastian Munster, Cosmographiae Universalis, Lib. VI. Basileae, 1550. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. 2. Title page of Richard Hakluyt, Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation. London, 1589. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. 3. Title page and first three pages of Peter d'Anghiera, The Historic of Travayle. London, 1577. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. Stamps and Cachets: 1. Stamp issued by France in honor of the sesquicentennial celebration of the signing of the Constitution of the United States. Given by Dr. C. C. Crittenden, Raleigh. 2. Envelope mailed in Auckland, New Zealand, brought by the Samoan Clipper in the first package of air mail to leave New Zealand. Given by Mr. John A. Park, Raleigh. 3. Mail envelope, first Baltimore-Bermuda flight, first United States transatlantic air mail. Given by Mr. John A. Park, Raleigh. N. C. Historical Commission 31 4. Envelope from Cristobal, C. Z., commemorating the twenty-fifth anni-versary of the first ocean-to-ocean flight over the Panama Canal, made by Robert G. Fowler in 1913, and an envelope dated May 15, 1938, from Washington, D. C, bearing the post office and American Airlines cachets, the air mail stamp commemorating the twentieth anniversary of air mail service, and cachet of Flag-ship Station. Given by Mr. John A. Park, Raleigh. 5. Post card carrying air mail stamp and cachet of commemorative flight from Kitty Hawk to Dayton, Ohio, in honor of the Wright Brothers, marking the twentieth anniversary of the inauguration of regular air mail service. Loaned by Mr. Samuel W. Worthington, Wilson. 6. Air mail envelope carrying air mail week cachets from Ponca City, Oklahoma, and Warrenton, North Carolina. Given by Dr. C. C. Crit-tenden, Raleigh. 7. Envelope carrying Juneau-Fairbanks first flight cachet. Given by Mr. John A. Park, Raleigh. 8. Envelope with cachet of commemorative flight from Kitty Hawk to Dayton on twentieth anniversary of the inauguration of regular air mail service. Given by Mr. John A. Park, Raleigh. 9. Envelope with air mail week cachet of Crewe, Virginia. Given by Mr. John Crittenden, Crewe, Virginia. War Relics: 1. Part of sword cane. Purchased from Mr. T. H. Liles, Richmond, Virginia. 2. German World War helmet. Loaned by Mr. Frank King, Raleigh. 3. Revolver used about 1870. Given by Mr. George William Britton, Ocean View, Virginia. 4. Gun of Civil War period. Loaned by Mr. G. S. High, Neuse. WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION PROJECTS As during the 1934-1936 biennium, a large part of the time and energy of the Secretary and other members of the Commis-sion's staff has been devoted to various Federal relief projects. A total of more than $200,000 (five times the biennial appro-priation of the Commission) has been spent on the various Works Progress Administration projects with which the Com-mission has co-operated, and a great deal of historical work, which could not have been handled by the Commission alone, has been prosecuted vigorously and successfully. As previously, these Federal relief projects fall under five heads: (1) miscellaneous projects, (2) the Fort Raleigh restora-tion, (3) a National Youth Administration project, (4) the Survey of Federal Archives, and (5) the Historical Records Survey. (1) Miscellaneous projects. Workers from the Library Project, the Art Project, and other projects have assisted in the preparation of catalogs and indexes, and have performed various tasks which were assigned to them. (2) The Fort Raleigh restoration. The buildings under con-struction at the end of the preceding biennium have been com- 32 Seventeenth Biennial Report pleted, a large open-air amphitheatre has been built, and other work has been done. (3) A National Youth Administration project. Under the direction of Mr. D. L. Corbitt, this project has continued the work of abstracting the marriage bonds in the archives of the Commission. To date 664 boxes or approximately 250,000 bonds have been abstracted. Of this number about 240,000 have been verified, and approximately 45,000 have been alphabetized and typed. Also, about 72,000 names in John W. Moore, com-piler, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, have been indexed. There remain only about 15,000 names to be indexed, after which all the names are to be verified, arranged, and typed. (4) The Survey of Federal Archives. This project, begun on a nation-wide basis early in 1936, was continued on that basis through June 30, 1937. During that period the Secretary of the Historical Commission acted as Regional Director of the Survey in North Carolina and Miss Mattie Erma Edwards, who had been granted a leave of absence as Collector for the Hall of History, served as Assistant Regional Director. After June, 1937, the project was organized on a state-wide basis under the direction of Miss Emily Bridgers. At the end of the biennium the preliminary listing of Federal records in North Carolina had been completed and a descriptive inventory of these records was in process of preparation. Copies of the various sections of this inventory were being placed in the Historical Commission's archives, and it was expected that they would prove useful to researchers. (5) The Historical Records Survey. From the standpoint of the Historical Comission, this was the most important of all the Works Progress Administration projects with which it was con-nected. Begun early in 1936, the Survey reached a high level of activity during the 1936-1938 biennium, and a total of almost $150,000 was spent in North Carolina during this period. With its major task, the inventorying of county records, well in hand, the Survey broadened its scope to include the listing of town, state, and church records, the preparation of calendars of manu-script collections, the listing of early American imprints, and the systematized collecting and filing of vital statistics from the older cemeteries in the state. By the end of the biennium the first volume of The Historical Records of North Carolina (pub-lished by the Historical Commission), containing lists of the N. C. Historical Commission 33 records of 26 counties, Alamance through Columbus, had been published; the second volume, covering 40 additional counties, Craven through Moore, was in press; and copy for the third volume of county lists, which was expected to include the last 34 counties, Nash through Yancey, was being prepared. In addi-tion, initial listings had been made of more than 70 per cent of the state records and of the archives of more than 1,000 towns; more than 1,200 church records forms had been filled out; more than 1,000 pages of calendars of manuscript collections had been prepared; more than 2,000 cemeteries had been surveyed; and more than 69,000 individual tombstone cards had been typed and filed. From the beginning of the Survey until June 30, 1937, the Secretary of the Historical Commission acted as its State Di-rector and Mr. Dan Lacy was Assistant State Director. On July 1, 1937, Mr. Lacy became State Director and at the end of the biennium still held that position. FINANCES The expenditures of the Historical Commission are made from biennial legislative appropriations, as allowed quarterly by the Budget Bureau. The following classified table shows the appro-priations and expenditures for each year of the biennium, 1936- 1938: 1936-1937 Appropriation Expenditures Appropriation Expenditures Salaries and Wages Supplies Postage, Telegrams, Telephone, Express. Drayage Travel Printing and Binding Repairs General Expense Equipment Additions and Betterments Totals Less estimated receipts Net expenditures from Appropriation.. $12,955 190 312 500 3,371 15 54 522 3,075 $20,994 700 $20,295 $12,950 189 309 497 3,336 11 53 521 2,796 $20, 662 677 $19,985 $15,125 300 315 650 4.998 25 77 733 1,400 $23,623 1,780 $21,843 $14,961 297 288 539 4,939 25 73 689 455 $22,266 1,790 $20,476 34 Seventeenth Biennial Report FORT RALEIGH In May, 1936, before the beginning of the biennium covered by the present report, the Historical Commission offered the Fort Raleigh tract to the National Park Service and that agency undertook to investigate the history of the site. As a result of this investigation, the Park Service announced in June, 1938, that it was ready to accept title to the fort. At the end of the biennium actual conveyance had not yet been made, but the transaction was expected to be completed within the near future. In the summer of 1937 a celebration of the 350th anniversary of the coming of "the Lost Colony" was held at Fort Raleigh. The chief attraction was Paul Green's historical drama, "The Lost Colony," which was presented in an amphitheatre at the fort several nights each week from July 4 through Labor Day. The play drew tens of thousands of visitors and succeeded so brilliantly that plans were made to continue it the following summer. NEW QUARTERS Probably the biennium's most significant development for the Historical Commission has been the allotment to it of space in a new building. Years ago the present quarters on the second floor of the State Administration Building, completed in 1914, were outgrown, but, largely because of the business depression beginning in 1929, no remedial action was taken until the 1936-38 biennium. The successful movement for new quarters got under way in 1936. The State Literary and Historical Association, which had been instrumental in the creation of the Historical Commission and which had always been closely allied with that agency, at its annual session on December 3-4, 1936, passed a resolution authorizing the Association's President to appoint a committee to bring to the attention of the Legislature at its forthcoming session the Commission's need for more space. President W. T. Laprade of Durham appointed the following legislative commit-tee: Willis Smith, Raleigh, Chairman; A. R. Newsome, Chapel Hill; W. D. Pruden, Edenton; J. M. Broughton, Raleigh; and Mrs. J. V. Higham, Raleigh. At a meeting in January, 1937, the committee discussed the proper method of procedure and the Chairman agreed to present the matter to the proper author-ities. He later stated the case to the Governor. N. C. Historical Commission 35 In the meantime other state departments had been clamoring for more space, and the Governor appointed a commission to investigate and report. Every state department claiming to need additional space was invited to state its requirements at a hearing of the commission. At such a hearing the Secretary of the Historical Commission explained the needs of that agency. As a result of the report of the Governor's commission of investigation, the Legislature passed a bill appropriating $675,- 000 for the erection of a new building and the Governor ap-pointed a building commission to carry on this work. Judge Walter D. Siler of Siler City, a member of the House of Repre-sentatives, was made Chairman, and Mr. Willis Smith was appointed a member. The building commission purchased a site at the northwest corner of Edenton and Salisbury streets, diagonally across from Capitol Square, and employed the firm of Northup and O'Brien of Winston-Salem as architects. The Historical Commission was allowed to deal directly with the architects, and several conferences were held with them. The Commission had already assembled a great deal of information concerning the quarters of historical agencies and museums else-where, and this information was used to good advantage. The building commission assigned to the Historical Commission the entire first floor and approximately one-half the basement floor of the new building. The essential features of the new quarters are as follows : (1) For the Hall of History there will be six large display rooms and three smaller display rooms, together with an office and a work room for the Collector and her assistants and sev-eral storage rooms of varying sizes. The latest and most approved devices of museum display will be employed, and it is believed that considerable improvement over the present system will result. (2) More adequate office and work space will be provided for the staff. Most of the offices will be on the first floor, and the several basement rooms will be used mainly for receiving, pack-ing, photography, the cleaning and repair of manuscripts, and similar purposes. (3) There will be suitable search rooms for the public. At the present time the researchers who use the manuscripts in the Commission's archives have to be crowded into one small office. In the new building they will have both a large search room and 36 Seventeenth Biennial Report a small search room. In each room there will be special desk, chair, and lighting equipment. (4) Most essential of all, there will be far more stack space than at present. In the existing quarters, archives are stored not only in the one small archive room, but also in the base-ment, in offices, and in every other available place. In the new building there will be three large archive rooms, one on the first floor and two in the basement. Each room will be sufficiently high-pitched to include two tiers of stacks. At the end of the biennium construction of the new building was proceeding apace and the work was expected to be com-pleted within a few months. It was believed that in its new quarters the Historical Commission would be able to serve the public more efficiently than ever before. A PROGRAM FOR THE FUTURE The North Carolina Historical Commission enjoys an enviable position as one of the leading historical agencies in the entire nation. Created and raised to a high standard of achievement under the able administration of Dr. R. D. W. Connor, now Archivist of the United States, the Commission, though sup-ported by smaller appropriations than a number of similar agencies throughout the country, neverthless is recognized as a pioneer in historical work. On no account should this position be lost or should the Commission fall behind similar agencies in other states. For more than a decade the Commission has been so crowded for space that it could not function in the most efficient manner or take full advantage of its various opportunities. Now that larger and better designed quarters are to be provided, however, an enlarged program can be undertaken. Probably it will not be possible to inaugurate this program all at once. Rather, each part will have to be undertaken as opportunity offers. As the time approaches when the Commission's new quarters will be ready, it seems appropriate to consider what problems will be faced and what ends should be sought within the next few years. First and most fundamental of all, the new quarters will need to be adequately equipped. Three large rooms have been ear-marked for archives, and these should be provided with shelving, manuscript boxes, and other archive equipment. For the several display and storage rooms designed for the Hall of History, N. C. Historical Commission 37 additional museum cases and other items will be needed. It would be illogical for the state to provide this space and then to fail to equip it suitably. Second, certain scientific and technical equipment will be needed. Within the past few years a number of new devices for archives have been developed, and the Commission should make use of at least a portion of these, as follows (a) A microfilm camera, a projecting machine, and related equipment. These devices, invented only a short time ago, make possible the reproduction of a manuscript or a printed page at very low cost. By using them the Commission will be able to secure copies of large numbers of manuscripts of which the originals cannot be obtained, thereby serving users of manu-scripts by making the latter available at a central point, and at the same time insuring that if the original document is destroyed a copy will still remain in existence. These devices will also make it possible for the Commission to provide the public at low cost with copies of manuscripts in its archives. The microfilm is rapidly becoming indispensable for an up-to-date archive agency. (b) A photostating machine. Frequently it is necessary to have made full-sized or near-full-sized facsimiles of manuscripts, either to be placed in the Commission's archives or to be sold to the public. At the present time this work is done for the Commission by a commercial concern in Raleigh, but it could be more advantageously performed by the Commission itself. The cost could be met in part by the profit from the sale of photo-stats. The Library of Congress and many other agencies are provided with such equipment. (c) A fumigating vault. As is generally known, one of the gravest dangers to manuscripts is from the various types of insects which attack them. In a fumigating vault all such insect life can be easily and quickly killed—as has been shown by the success of this process in the National Archives. The purchase of such equipment would be a wise investment for the state, yielding large returns in the preservation of priceless old papers. (d) A laminating machine. In the National Archives and elsewhere a new process for preserving old manuscripts, known as lamination, is being developed. On each side of the paper to be repaired is laid a sheet of cellulose acetate, with perhaps other reinforcing transparent or semi-transparent paper. The whole is placed in a steam press for a few minutes, and when it comes 38 Seventeenth Biennial Report out has been welded into a single unit. In this way a fragile old sheet of paper can be made stronger and more durable even than when it was new. Third, an enlarged program of acquiring and preserving his-torical records should be undertaken. This is the fundamental work of the Commission, and no other activity or interest should be allowed to interfere with it. Several different classifications of records are involved: (a) The state archives. If the Commission is to do its full duty along this line, it will eventually work out a system whereby the records of every state department and agency are trans-ferred to its jurdisdiction as soon as they become non-current. A two-fold benefit will result : On the one hand there will be made available badly needed space in the various state offices, none of which are provided with sufficient room to house quantities of old records. On the other hand, the preservation and expert care of these records will be insured. The Commission is not ready at the present time to undertake this function in its en-tirety, but a move in that direction should soon be made and the ultimate goal should constantly be borne in mind. (b) The county archives. In the courthouses of the state's one hundred counties are vast quantities of old records, useless in the conduct of current business but valuable for historica* purposes. Many of these records are carelessly stored in attics, in halls, in warehouses, in damp basements, and the like, where they are steadily deteriorating and are constantly in danger of total destruction. A large quantity of the county records have already been brought to the archives of the Historical Commis-sion, but many more should follow. (c) The records of individuals, merchants, churches, and the like. Systematic effort should be made to round up such ma-terials and to provide for their permanent preservation. Already the Commission and other agencies have accomplished a great deal along this line, but much remains to be done. It is a work which will never be completed and which should be continued indefinitely. Fourth, after records of various types have been acquired, they should be cleaned, repaired, classified, cataloged, and placed on the shelves. This is a tedious and laborious process, but is absolutely essential. It is of little use to collect records unless they receive adequate care and unless they are made available to the public. N. C. Historical Commission 39 Fifth, an expanded program of publication should be under-taken. In the past the Commission has published more than two dozen volumes of source materials and lists of such materials, together with numerous pamphlets. It publishes The North Carolina Historical Review, begun in 1924 and now in its fif-teenth volume. These publications represent a valuable invest-ment for the state, for they have done much to acquaint the nation with North Carolina history, concerning which a few decades ago most Americans were almost totally ignorant. Before 1931 the Commission was publishing every year, in addition to The Revieiv and various pamphlets, one or more volumes of documents. During the business depression of the early 1930's publication of such volumes was suspended, but in 1935 the program was resumed. At the present time one volume is being published each year. This rate should be accelerated. In the Commission's archives and elsewhere in the state are many important series of records, official and unofficial, which ought to be printed. In addition, a larger number of pamphlets and leaflets of general popular interest should be produced, especially for distribution to school children. Sixth, the Hall of History should increase its eifectiveness. In the past the average historical museum was a catch-all for almost anything old and curious, and seemed to attract especially guns, uniforms, and other paraphernalia of war. Recently, how-ever, many new practices have been adopted by such institutions. Not only have they become much more careful about what they acquire, but they have developed new and improved methods of displaying their acquisitions. The chief purpose of the Hall of History should be to tell the story of North Carolina's past, simply and so that anyone can understand it. Displays should be arranged according to a well planned system, and their effectiveness should be increased by such devices as dioramas, varied types of cases, lighting within cases, and the like. The present staff of the Commission is aware of the possibilities along such lines and rapid progress toward the desired goal may be expected. Seventh, the historical-highway-marker program should be continued. The markers already in place have won general approval and have shown the way to many significant historic spots previously unknown to the public. The work should be continued until every important historic place in the state has 40 Seventeenth Biennial Report been marked. Necessarily, the program will have to proceed slowly and carefully, and several years will be required to com-plete it. Eighth, historical places throughout the state should receive better care than at present. The Commission's aid is frequently sought in the care of old houses, of the graves of eminent per-sons, and of other historic spots, but at present it has no funds for such a purpose. Perhaps the best solution will be the crea-tion of a society to acquire and care for such places. An example of what can be done is furnished by the Association for the Pres-ervation of Virginia Antiquities. Formed half a century ago, this corporation now owns property worth perhaps half a million dollars and is caring for a number of historic old houses, some of which otherwise would have been destroyed. Though the Commission would co-operate in many ways with such an organi-zation, the latter would have a separate and distinct existence. Ninth, the Commission should continue to co-operate with such Federal relief projects as the Historical Records Survey, the Survey of Federal Archives, and the National Youth Adminis-tration project which it has been sponsoring. While such projects are limited in that they are designed primarily for the relief of the needy, they nevertheless make it possible for the Commission to perform various important tasks which otherwise could not be undertaken. Tenth, interest in local history should be promoted and local historical organizations should be encouraged. In the state there should be several times the present number of local historical societies. A history of every county should be published. Better care of local historical records should be encouraged, for it is not practicable to place all these records in a central depository. Finally, the Historical Commission should be ever vigilant to take advantage of every opening to increase its usefulness and to serve the public. It should study and try to meet the needs of the people of North Carolina and of the nation. It should keep informed of what similar organizations elsewhere in the United States and in foreign countries are doing, so as to remain abreast of new developments and methods. The Commission has a fine opportunity to serve. Every possible advantage should be taken of this opportunity. Respectfully submitted, C. C. Crittenden, Raleigh, N. C, July 1, 1938. Secretary. ^
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Title | Biennial report of the North Carolina Historical Commission |
Other Title | Report of the Historical Commission |
Creator | North Carolina Historical Commission. |
Date | 1936; 1937; 1938 |
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North Carolina Historical Commission--Periodicals North Carolina--History--Sources--Periodicals North Carolina--Antiquities--Periodicals Genealogy |
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Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, United States North Carolina, United States |
Time Period |
(1929-1945) Depression and World War Two |
Description | Description based on: 2nd (1906/1908).; 1908/1910-1924/1926 report year ends Nov. 30; 1926/1928- ends June 30. |
Publisher | Raleigh :Edwards & Broughton,1904-1942. |
Agency-Current | North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources |
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English |
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Reports Periodicals |
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Full Text | of tijf Itttorattg of Nnrtli (Carolina OlDllprtion at Nnrllj QIarnltmatta CSOG UNIVERSITY OF N.C. AT CHAPEL HILL 00033953437 This book must not be taken from the Library baiUing Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2009 with funding from Ensuring Democracy through Digital Access (NC-LSTA) http://www.archive.org/details/biennialreportof193638nort PUBLICATIONS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL COMMISSION BULLETIN NO. 39 SEVENTEENTH BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1936-1938 SEVENTEENTH BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL COMMISSION July 1, 1936, TO June 30, 1938 RALEIGH North Carolina Historical Commission 1938 THE NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL COMMISSION M. C. S. Noble, Chairman, Chapel Hill Heriot Clarkson, Raleigh J. Allan Dunn, Salisbury Mrs. George McNeill, Fayetteville Clarence W. Griffin, Forest City C. C. Crittenden, Secretary, Raleigh LETTER OF TRANSMISSION To His Excellency, Clyde R. Hoey, Governor of North Carolina. Sir:—In compliance with Chapter 714 of the Public Laws of 1907, I have the honor to submit herewith for your Excellency's consideration the Biennial Report of the North Carolina His-torical Commission for the period July 1, 1936-June 30, 1938. Respectfully, M. C. S. Noble, Chairman. Raleigh, N. C, July 1, 1938. BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE North Carolina Historical Commission July 1, 1936, to June 30, 1938 To M. C. S. Noble, Chairman, and Heriot Clarkson, J. Allan Dunn, Mrs. George McNeill, and Clarence W. Griffin, Commissioners : I have the honor to submit the following report of the North Carolina Historical Commission for the period July 1, 1936-June 30, 1938: ORGANIZATION I. The Historical Commission. On August 29, 1936, George McNeill, because of illness, re-signed as a member of the Commission, and Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus appointed Mrs. George McNeill, his wife, to fill the unexpired term, which ends March 31, 1941. William Kenneth Boyd after a long illness died on January 19, 1938. The following resolutions were framed by a committee appointed by the Chairman of the Commission : William Kenneth Boyd, Professor of History at Duke University and member of the North Carolina Historical Commission, was born at Curry-ville, Missouri, in 1879, and died at Durham, North Carolina, on January 19, 1938. He was educated at Weaver College (North Carolina), at Trinity College (now Duke University), and at Columbia University. By the last named of these institutions he was awarded the degree of doctor of philoso-phy in 1906. He taught for long years at his alma mater (Trinity College). He was the author of a History of North Carolina, 1783-1860 (1919) and The Story of Durham: City of the New South (1925), and editor of Some Eigh-teenth Century Tracts concerning North Carolina (1927) and William ByrcVs Histories of the Dividing Line beticixt Virginia and North Carolina (1929). He was also the author of many articles and book reviews, was joint author of several school histories and syllabuses, and was for many years one of the editors of The South Atlantic Quarterly. Dr. Boyd had an iniinite capacity for painstaking—often termed genius. His life was a full expression of the best in all things. As a writer and teacher he always showed a thorough and comprehensive grasp of the subject in hand. His funeral in the Duke University Chapel was largely attended by men of all sorts and conditions, who thus showed the love, affection, and esteem which all people had for him. It is the desire of the Committee that this tribute be printed in the Biennial Report of the North Carolina Historical Commission and that copies be sent to the family of the deceased. Heriot Clarkson, J. Allan Dunn, Mrs. George McNeill, Committee. 6 Seventeenth Biennial Report On February 2, 1938, Governor Clyde R. Hoey appointed Clarence W. GrifRn to fill the unexpired term ending March 31, 1943. II. The Office Force. Secretary—C. C. Crittenden. Collector for the Hall of History—Marybelle Delamar (Acting Collector), July 1, 1936-March 31, 1937: Mrs. Caroline Stringfield (Acting Collector), April 1-July 31, 1937; Mattie Erma Edwards, August 1, 1937-June 30, 1938. Miss Edwards had been on leave of absence from her position as Collector for the Hall of History since February 10, 1936, in order to serve as Assistant Regional Director of the Survey of Federal Archives. (See below, p. 32.) Chief Library Assistant—D. L. Corbitt. Restorer of Manuscripts—Mrs. J. M. Winfree. Senior Stenographer-Clerk—Sophie D. Busbee. Senior Library Assistant—Mrs. W. S. West. Manuscript Copyist—Mrs. J. C. Meconnahey. Researcher-Highway Markers—Marybelle Delamar, March 23-June 30, 1938. Temporary Copyist—Mrs. Izora McClure, 22 days in July, 1936. Janitor-Messenger—Edward Freeman. ACCESSIONS With a limited staff in crowded quarters, it has been impossible for the Commission to accession new materials as fast as they have been acquired, though a great deal has been accomplished in this respect by the use of relief workers. A list of accessions for the biennium follows I. Additions to Collections. 1. Personal Papers: The Alexander Boyd Andrews, Jr., Papers. 1 pamphlet, Raleigh's Roanoke Colony of 1585; 1 letter, J. M. Morehead to Alex. B. An-drews, Feb. 15, 1938. Given by Mr. A. B. Andrews, Raleigh. Samuel A'Court Ashe Papers. Letter, John Ashe to Governor Richard Caswell, Feb. 23, 1778. Typescript copy. Deed, Samuel Porter Ashe and Ezekiel Lane, March 1, 1814. Typescript copy. Given by Capt. S. A. Ashe, Raleigh. John Penn Papers. Letter, J. Penn to , 1778, (July ?). Photo-stat purchased from Carolina Blue Printers. Jefferson Davis Papers. Letter from V. Jefferson Davis [to James H. Jones], Sept. 10, 1906. Transferred from Hall of History. W. W. Holden Papers. "Recollections of W. W. Holden." Notes taken by Dr. E. E. Folk at interview with Mrs. Henry Murdock, April 29, 1930. Typescript copy. Given by Dr. Edgar E. Folk, Wake Forest. Southgate Jones Papers. 17 wills, deeds, and letters, 1814-1863; 1 marriage bond—John Williams and Nancy Arrendell, August 10, 1804, Franklin County. Given by Mr. Southgate Jones, Durham. Kiffin Yates Rockwell Papers. Notes—Kiffin Yates Rockwell. Type-script. Given by Mr. Paul Ayres Rockwell, Asheville. Calvin H. Wiley Papers. 16 letters, 1855-1876. Given by Miss Mary C. Wiley, Winston-Salem. Winslow Papers. Miscellaneous genealogical material. Given by Dr. Nathan Winslow, Baltimore, Maryland. Paul C. West Collection. Statement of Salisbury Branch Bank, Nov. 20, 1816. Given by Mr. Paul C. West, Raleigh. N. C. Historical Commission 7 2. General Court Records: General Court papers, 1687, 169S, and 1713. Photostats purchased from Carolina Blue Printers through the courtesy of Mr. Richard Dillard Dixon, Edenton. 3. District Court Records: Morgan District. 4,973 pieces miscellaneous court papers. Given by Burke County Clerk of Superior Court. New Bern District. 21 summonses, bonds, 1805-1806, etc., to sheriffs of various counties from sheriff of Superior Court of District of New Bern. Given by Mr. Wilmer L. Hall, Virginia State Librarian, Richmond, Virginia. 4. County Records: Bertie. 34 marriage bonds and 67,000 pieces of miscellaneous court papers; letter, J. B. Blount to brother. May 28, 1812 (found tied around a bundle of Bei'tie County wills). Given by Clerk of Su-perior Court. Burke. 2 marriage bonds and 8,523 pieces miscellaneous court papers. Caswell. 3 wills. Also notes on James Terry taken from Wheeler's History of North Carolina, and a History of Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Given by Mr. Edwin L. Davis, Washington, D. C. Edgecombe. 86 marriage bonds. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Gates. 6,738 pieces miscellaneous court papers. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Halifax. 1 marriage bond, 1850. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Hyde. 48 marriage bonds and 25,000 pieces miscellaneous court papers. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Johnston. Summons for Samuel Smith, Jr., November 23, 1768. Given by Miss Amelia L. Killips, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Will of Urias Baucom, May 27, 1873. Typescript. Given by Mr. C. D. Baucom, Raleigh. Receipt, May 1, 1805, Robt. Gulley, Jr., Sheriff of Johnston County,- for money paid Henry Stevens as witness. Given by Mr. Wilmer L. Hall, Virginia State Librarian, Richmond, Virginia. Martin. 1 marriage bond, 1846. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Mecklenburg. 4 marriage bonds and 1 note granting permission to obtain marriage license. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Moore. Unofficial list of Moore County marriages not recorded in the county courthouse, from an old volume in possession of Miss Kate Harrington Cameron. List made by a Historical Records Survey worker, under supervision of Miss Cameron. Typescript. Given by Historical Records Survey, Raleigh. Northampton. 1 marriage bond, 1841. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Onslow. Wills, court records, divisions and inventories of estates, marriage certificate, and 11 census lists of Onslow County, 1786. Given by Governor's Office. Orange. Copy of will of James Sanders, 1776. Given by Mrs. Edwin L. Davis, Washington, D. C. Pasquotank. 1 marriage bond, 1822, and 7,524 pieces miscellaneous court papers. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Perquimans. 204 marriage bonds. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Person. 8 pieces miscellaneous court papers. Given by Clerk of Su-perior Court. Richmond. Typescript copy of Sheriff's Tax Bocfks, 1792-1793; list of aliens desiring United States citizenship, September 20, 1813. From Minutes of Court of Law and Equity, 1807-1815. Given by Historical Records Survey, Raleigh. Rowan. Original in German and a typescript translation of the will of Johannes Leinbach, 1766. Translated and given by Dr. Adelaide L. Fries, Winston-Salem. Rutherford. Public Officers of Rutherford County, 1779-1935. Type-script copy. Given by Mr. Clarence W. Griffin, Forest City. Seventeenth Biennial Report Tyrrell. 4 marriage bonds and 20,175 pieces miscellaneous court papers. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Wake. Will of Allen W. Davis, 1820. Manuscript copy. And 5,061 pieces miscellaneous court papers. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Warren. 3,423 pieces miscellaneous court papers. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Watauga. Affidavit, September 16, 1867. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. Wilkes. 140 marriage bonds, 1780-1867; list of marriage licenses is-sued, November 4, 1880-December 6, 1880; and miscellaneous court papers. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. 5. Supreme Court Papers: Miscellaneous Supreme Court papers, 1857-1898; letter, August 21, 1861, K. Rayner to Justices of the Peace of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions. Appeal cases, transcripts of which were sent to Hertford County. Given by Clerk of Superior Court. 6. Executive Records: Buncombe County Land Entries, 1795. Original returns of United States Census of 1850, 12 volumes; 1860, 18 volumes; 1870, 22 volumes. Received from Secretary of State's Office. 5 volumes, accounts, etc., of construction of State Capitol, and 1 box of material. Given by State Treasurer's Office. Council of State Papers, 1929-1932, and Minutes of Council of State, 1929-1933, Gardner administration; Minutes of Board of Public Buildings and Grounds, 1925-1931, McLean and Gardner administra-tions. Given by Governor's Office. Comptroller's Statements, 1815. Given by Mr. Baxter Durham, State Auditor, Raleigh. 7. Newspapers: King's Weekly, Vol. I, No. 19. Greenville, N. C, May 17, 1895. Given by Mrs. Leon Anderson, Halifax. Journal—Extra, Wilmington, N. C, April 13, 1861. Given by Mr. John S. Beck, Washington, D. C. North Carolina Whig, Washington, N. C, Henry Dimock, editor, R. T. Rea, printer, March 28, October 29, 1844. (In each case pp. 1 and 2 only.) Given by Clerk of Superior Court, Hyde County. Henderson Daily Dispatch, No. 38, September 29, 1917. Contains list of Granville Grays who served in the Civil War. Given by Mrs. C. B. Cheatham, Raleigh. Daily Evening Star, Washington, D. C, Vol. I, No. 1, December 16, 1862. Given by Mr. Hubert B. Hunter, Raleigh, through Mr. H. H. Brimley, Raleigh. Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser, Baltimore. Printed by William Goddard, August 20, 1773. 2 copies. Given by Olivia Raney Library, Raleigh. The Evangelical Lutheran, 1868. Given by Mr. Earle Lutz, Richmond, Virginia. 8. Civil War: Sketch of Samuel Waddell Dickens. Newspaper clipping. Given by Mrs. E. L. Whitehead, Raleigh. "Captain Ashe Reviews War Between States." Given by Captain S. A. Ashe, Raleigh. List of North Carolina soldiers buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Shep-herdstown, W. Va. ; Confederate Memorial Dedication Elmwood Cemetery, Shepherdstown, W. Va., by Henry Kyd Douglas Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans, September 18, 1937 (2 copies); Maga-zine of the Jefferson County Historical Society, Vol. Ill, December, N. C. Historical Commission 9 1937. Given by Mr. Sam M. Hendricks, Henry Kyd Douglas Camp, Shepherdstown, W. Va. 9. World War: Sketches of Halifax County World War soldiers. Newspaper clipping. Given by Mrs. E. L. Whitehead, Raleigh. 10. Maps : Photostats of maps purchased from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: "Carte Des Deux Carolines et De La Georgie." "Carte De La Caroline Meredionale et Septentrionale Et De La Virginie." "A General Map of the Southern British Colonies . . . Plan of Charlestown. Plan of St. Augustine." (Inset.) Originals in the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 3 printed maps given by North Carolina State College Raleigh: "North Carolina." Map shows outline and names of counties. 32 7/8x12 7/16 inches. "North Carolina." Map shows name and county seat of each county. 31 7/8 x 11 inches. "North Carolina." Map shows outline and names of counties. 39 11/16x15 3/4 inches. Photostats of 2 John White maps: Map of Region occupied and ex-plored by Raleigh's Colony (from John White's drawing, now in the British Museum). Taken from Century Magazine, XXV, 73 (November, 1882). Map of Southern Part of Atlantic Coast of North America, showing the Strait leading from Port Royal to the So. (Drawn in 1685 by John White, Artist to Raleigh Colony. Published by permission of British Museum.) From Century Maga-zine, XXV, 66-67 (November, 1882). Given by Roanoke Island His-torical Association, Manteo. Negative photostats of 10 maps given by Roanoke Island Historical Association, Manteo: "Naval Battle of Roanoke Island, Battle of Roanoke Island, North Carolina." "Battle of Roanoke Island." "North Carolina." "A New Map of Carolina." By Robt Morden. "Lower Cape Fear Section and Adjacent Country . . . 1775." By Henry Mouzon. "North Carolina. . . ." By James Wimble, 1738. "Part of North America . . . 1709." By Jon Lawson. "A New Description of Carolina ..." [1676]. "The South Part of Virginia now the North Part of Carolina" [1657]. "Map of Virginia from De Dry's History of Virginia, p. 2. "An Accurate Map of North and South Carolina. . . ." 1775. By Henry Mouzon and others. London. Printed by Robt Sayer and J. Bennett. 56% x 19% inches. Photostat. Purchased from Joseph Merritt & Co., Hartford, Connecticut, courtesy of Dr. Burr, His-torical Records Survey, Washington, D. C. 2 maps given by the State Department of Conservation and Develop-ment, Raleigh: "North Carolina." No date. 8% x 31/2 inches. Printed. Shows outline and names of counties. "North Carolina." No date. 8 7/16x10 15/16 inches. Printed. Map shows outline and names of counties. 2 maps given by the State Highway and Public Works Commission, Raleigh: "State Highway System of North Carolina." 1936. 40 5/16x15 1/2 inches. Prepared by C. M. Sawyer. Printed. Illustrative col-ored map. 10 Seventeenth Biennial Report "State Highway System of North Carolina." 1936. 41% x 151/2 inches. Prepared by C. W. Sawyer & W. W. Hampton. Printed. "An Accurate Map of North and South Carolina . . . 1777." By Henry Mouzon and Others. . . . 151/2x20%; 151/2x2114, inches. Photostat in two sections. Original in possession of Mr. Lewis H. Parry, Mexico City, Mexico. Given by Mr. Josephus Daniels, Mexico City, Mexico. "Battle of Guilford, Fought on the 15th of March, 1781. London. Pub-lish'd March 1st 1787." 111/4x13 5/16 inches. Photostat. Pur-chased from Carolina Blue Printers through courtesy of Mr. Gavin Dortch, Raleigh. "Map of Wake County, Drawn from Actual Surveys by Feudal Bevers, County Surveyor." [1878.] 171/2x22; 15i4x21% inches. Photo-stat in two pieces. Chart of City of Raleigh on bottom of map. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers through courtesy of Mr. William Henry Shaw, Raleigh. "Map of Virginia." By Theodore De Bry. From De Bry's History of Yirginia, p. 2. Given by Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. "A Mapp of Virginia discovered to Ye Hills, and in its Latt: From 35 deg: & 1/2 neer. Florida to 41. deg: bounds of New England." By John Goddard. 1651. 11 x I41/2 inches. Photostat. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers through courtesy of Dr. Frederick Tilberg, Raleigh. "Plan of the Town of Halifax in Halifax County, North Carolina. . . . Survey's & Drawn in June 1769. By C. J. Sauthier." Photostat. Original in British Museum. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. 2 surveys for the Roanoke Colony Memorial Association (land pur-chased by the Association), November 28, 1896. Photostats pur-chased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh, through courtesy of Dr. Frederick Tilberg, Raleigh. Map of Davie County. Drawn by J. T. Alderman, 1887. Photostat. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh, through courtesy of Miss Mary J. Heitman, Mocksville. Roanoke Island. "This Plan represents Roanoke Island Containing Twelve thousand Acres of Land and Marsh, as it was surveyed Anno 1718 By W. Maule Surveyr Geni A true Coppy By E. Moseley Survr Geni 1729." Photostat. Original in possession of Mr. John Wood, Edenton. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers through courtesy of Mr. Wood. Purchased from Argosy Book Stores, Inc., New York, N. Y., 6 photostat copies: "The State of North Carolina from the Best Authorities." (Winter-botham). Eng. by B. Tanner. 16x19% inches. N. Y. John Reid. 1796. "North Carolina." (Drawn & Engraved by Joseph Scott). 6% x8i/i inches. (Phila., 1795). "North Carolina." (Arrowsmith & Lewis). Drawn by S. Lewis. Engr. by Tanner. Boston, 1804. 9xl0l^ inches. "Map of North & South Carolina." (Morse). By J. Denison. Engr. by Amos Doolittle. 8 x 91/2 inches. Phila., 1796. "North Carolina." Engr. by W. Barker. (Carey). 6i/4x9 inches. (Phila., 1796). 2 copies. "Proposed Fort Raleigh National Historic Site North Carolina." 11 x 8 14 inches. 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Colored illustrated map. 34 x 19 inches. 2 copies. Given by the Garden Club of North Carolina, Mrs. R. L. McMillan, President, Raleigh. "North Carolina. Department of Agriculture Crop Reporting Service, Raleigh, North Carolina. 1930." 22 x 9 3/16 inches. Printed. Given by Department of Agriculture Crop Reporting Service, Raleigh. Photostats of maps purchased from the Carolina Blue Printers, Ral-eigh, through the courtesy of Miss Ellen W. Wise, Richmond, Virginia: "A New and Accurate Map of North Carolina, and Part of South Carolina, with the Field of Battle between Earl Cornwallis and General Gates - London. Published as the Act directs, Novr. 30th, 1780 by J. Bew, Pater Noster Row. Jno. Lodge, Sculp." 15 1/16x10 11/16 inches. "North Carolina." [1796.] 7 11/16 x 5 7/8 inches. "North Carolina." [1805.] 7 3/4 x 5 13/16 inches. "North Carolina. Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of North Carolina. Drawn by E. Lucas, Jr." [1822.] 18 11/16 x 11 1/16 inches. "Map of North & South Carolina. 1825. By H. S. Tanner. Entered according to Act of Congress the 20th day of August 1823, by H. S. Tanner, of the State of Pennsylvania." 19 x 14% inches. "A New Map of Nth. Carolina with its Canals, Roads & Distances from place to place along the State & Steam Boat Routes. 1845. By H. S. Tanner." Insets of "Gold Region" and parts of "Craven and Jones" counties. 13 1/2x115/16 inches. "North Carolina. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1843 by Sidney E. Morse and Samuel Breese in the Clerks Office of the Southern District of New York." 15^4 x 12 inches. "North Carolina." [1856.] 15 5/16 x 12 1/16 inches. "North Carolina. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by J. H. Colton & Co. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of New York." Inset of Beaufort Harbor. 141^x11% inches. "North Carolina. [1856.] Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1855 by J. H. 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"A Map of North Carolina from the best Authorities." [1794.] Harrison, sc. 14 1/8x1117/16 inches. "A Map of the Lands of the Cranberry Iron and Coal Co. in Mitchell County, N. C." By J. R. Englebert, C. E. May, 1894. 23 x 19i^ inches. Linen drawing. Given by Mrs. E. B. Camp, Waynesville. 11. Genealogical: Historical Sketch of the Schenck and Bevens Families with an Appen-dix. Wa7-lick Genealogy. Printed. By Hon. David Schenck. Given by Dr. Bruce R. Payne, Nashville, Tennessee. 7 maps, 1 scrapbook, 22 folders of tombstone data, and other genealogi-cal material. Given by the Daughters of the American Revolution. List of Emigrants from Memoranda Relating to James Hogg of Hills-boro, 1774-1805, by Bishop Jos. B. Cheshire, Raleigh. Typescript. Given by Mrs. William Shaw West, Raleigh. Shiloh Church Records. Lutheran, (l^^ miles north of Lewisville, Forsyth County.) Typescript. Given by Dr. Adelaide L. Fries, Winston-Salem. "Mrs. A. R. Miller and her services to the Confederate Cause by her daughter, Mrs. H. O. Hyatt." Typescript. Given by Miss Sybil Hyatt, Kinston. Records kept by Joshua Harris, son of Wm. Harris, Sr., and grandson of Robert Harris, Sr., who came from Ireland. Copied by Joseph Marcus Harris, son of A. N. Harris. Given by Mr. I. L. Harris, Habana, Cuba. Tombstone Records. The Old Cemetery or "The Presbyterian Burying N. C. Historical Commission 13 Ground" in the City of Charlotte. Given by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Genealogical records. Granville County list of Revolutionary soldiers, family Bible records, cemetery records. North Carolina tombstone records, Lincoln County tombstone records; Virginia wills, copied by the Liberty Hall Chapter, Charlotte; Chatham County abstracts of deeds; Pennsylvania deeds; abstracts of North Carolina deeds and grants; Richmond County tombstone records; Mecklenburg County tombstone records; Elmwood Cemetery records, Charlotte; historic monuments and markers, Mecklenburg County; miscellan-eous records of Anson County. Typescript copies. Given by the Daughters of the American Revolution. North Carolina Bible Records, Church Records, and Genealogies. Com-piled by Alexander Martin Chapter, D. A. R., High Point. 1936. Typescript. Given by Alexander Martin Chapter, D. A. R., High Point. The Aydelott Family Association, Bulletin No. 20, July 28, 1937, and Bulletin No. 21, December 25, 1937. Printed. Given by Mr. George Carl Aydelott, New York, N. Y. William Whitfield and Allied lines. Copy . . . loaned by Mrs. Charles Duncan Bailey, Clarksville, Tennessee, . . . obtained from Mrs. Needham Lewis Whitfield, Clarksville, Tennessee. Typescript. Given by Mrs. L. P. Bosworth, Mount Kisco, New York. Reminiscences of Rev. John H. McLean, D. D. Typescript. 2 photo-stats of photographs of Hugh and Hector McLean. Life of Robert Daniell, 1642-1718, by Mrs. Leslie B. Clark. Typescript. Life of William Daniel, 1743-1840. Typescript. Photograph of his marker and its donor. Given by Mrs. Leslie B. Clark, Dallas, Texas. 12. Miscellaneous: The Catechism of the Protestant Episcopal Church, (Printed 1846-49) . . . ; A New Guide for Travelers through the United States of America, . . . 1850. Given by Mrs. William Shaw West, Raleigh. Article, "Twelve Years Preparation for the Passage of the Weeks Bill." By Joseph Hyde Pratt, August, 1936. Typescript. Silver Jubilee in observance of the passage of the Weeks Laio and the Extension of 'National Forests in the East, under the auspices of Society for the Protection of Neio Hampshire Forests and the United States Forest Service. Mount Washington Hotel, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, September 13, 14, 15, 1936. Printed. Given by Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. 3 letters: Dan'l Beidelman, Jr., to his father and mother, 1862, to-gether with his photograph. Purchased from Mr. J. E. Parrish, Henderson. Article, "Inlets along the Coast of North Carolina." Editors: Frank K. McClain, Lucy M. Cobb, and W. F. Marshall. Given by Federal Writers Project, North Carolina Districts 1, 2, and 4. Raleigh. 1 volume. Minutes of District Council of the Friends of Temperance for 3rd Judicial District, March, 1874-May, 1880. 1 deed, February 27, 1819, Lewis Bryan, Sheriff of Lenoir County, to John Washing-tQU. 1 volume, speeches by George Cookman of the Baltimore An-nual Conference and Chaplain to the United States Senate. 1842. Printed. Given by Miss Sybil Hyatt, Kinston. De Bry's Edition, 1590, of Harlot's Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia. Published in Frankfort, Germany. Pho-tostats loaned by Mr. Joseph B. Cheshire, Raleigh. Letters of Elizabeth Sterchi, 1867-1869, in Moravian Archives, Winston- Salem. Typescript copy. Footnotes prepared by Dr. Adelaide L. Fries. Given by Dr. Adelaide L. Fries, Winston-Salem. Historical Records Survey Inventories: Californa, No. 22, Marin County (San Rafael); Indiana, No. 6, Boone County (Lebanon); 14 Seventeenth Biennial Report Idaho, No. 34, Minidoka County (Rupert) ; Texas, No. 3, Municipal-ity of Brazoria, 1S32-1S37; Parish Arcliives of Louisiana, No. 45, Saint Charles' Parish (Hahnville); Missouri, No. 82, Pike County (Bowling Green); West Virginia, No. 38, Pocahontas County (Mar-linton); Kentucky, No. 34, Fayette County (Lexington); Kansas, No. 46, Johnson County (Olathe); Texas, No. 61, Denton County; Oklahoma, No. 51, Muskogee County (Muskogee); Kentucky, No. 61, Knox County (Barbourville) ; New York State, Albany County Archives; Washington, Pend Oreille County (Newport), No. 26; Illinois, No. 8, Carroll County (Mount Carroll); Mississippi, No. 3, Amite County (Liberty) ; South Dakota, No. 8, Buffalo County (Gann Valley); Oklahoma, No. 7, Bryan County (Durant); and Tennessee, No. 33, Hamilton County (Chattanooga), (2 copies). Given by the Historical Records Survey through Dr. Luther H. Evans, National Director, Washington, D. C. Memoirs in Moravian Archives, prepared by Dr. Adelaide L. Fries. Typescript. Given by Historical Records Survey, Raleigh. 20 Tennessee Census Reports, 1820: Bedford County, Davidson County, Hickman County, Humphreys County, Lawrence County, Lincoln County, Maury County, Montgomery County, Overton County, Perry County, Robertson County, Rutherford County, Shelby County, Smith County, Stewart County, Sumner County, Warren County, Wayne County, White County, and Wilson County. Type-script. Given by Miss Martha Lou Houston, Washington, D. C. Leaflet, "To be sold, one moiety or half Part of Roanoak . . . ." Con-tained in Mr. Edward A. Oldham's column, "North Carolina in New York." Wmston-Salem Sentinel, August 15, 1937. Printed. Given by Mr. Edward A. Oldham, New York. 13. Pamphlets: A 17th Century Letter of Gabriel Diaz Vay-a Calcleron, Bishop of Cuba, Describing the Indians and Indian Missions of Florida. . . . 1936. Given by Dr. Lucy L. Wenhold, Winston-Salem. Memorial to Confederate Soldiers. . . . Sept., IS, 1937; and Magazine of the Jefferson County Historical Society, Vol. Ill, December, 1937. Printed. Given by Mr. Sam M. Hendricks, Shepherdstown, W. Va. Historical Sketch, Ellerbe, N. C. Town Schools 82rri7igs. By A. D. Spivey. September 29, 1936. Printed from Post-Dispatch, October 1, 1936. Compliments Rockingham Post-Dispatch, Isaac S. London, Editor, with co-laboration of W. H. Covington. Printed. Given by Mr. A. D. Spivey, Ellerbe. Minutes of the Seventy-Sixth Annual Ses.sion Tennessee River Baptist Association . . . August 20-21, 1936. Printed. Given by Tennessee River Baptist Association, North Carolina. Ordinances for the Town of Kinston, N. C. for the year 1893-94. Print-ed. Given by Miss Sybil Hyatt, Kinston. Grove Presbyterian Chxirch, Kenansville. N. C. Bi-Centennial Celebra-tion. Sunday, Xor. 2U, 1936. Printed. Given by Mr. A. T. Outlaw, Kenansville. Directory of Federal Agencies and Departments in North Carolina. Compiled by the National Emergency Council .... (Revised Sep-tember 1, 1936.) Mimeographed. Given by Mr. R. M. Gantt, State Director, National Emergency Council, Durham. The Significance of the Transylvania Company in American History. By Archibald Henderson, President of The Transylvanians. De-livered at the Transylvania Memorial Celebration, Boonesborough, Kentucky, October 12, 1935. Printed. Given by Dr. Archibald Henderson, Chapel Hill. 1 volume. Minutes Epworth M. E. Church South, Raleigh, 1907-1911. 10 loose pages, 1911, and undated. 8 pamphlets. 1 jewelry catalogue. 7 speeches. The volume manuscript; the remainder printed. Given, by Miss Lillian Dodd, Raleigh. N. C. Historical Commission 15 A Dangerous Pamphlet in the Old South. By Clement Eaton. Re-printed from The Journal of Southern History. Vol. II, No. 3 (Au-gust, 1936). Given by Mr. Clement Eaton, Easton. Pa. The Prophet Joseph Smith Tells His Oicn Story. Printed. Rays of Living Light. By President Charles W. Penrose. Printed. The Plan of Salvation by Elder John Morgan. Printed. A card, "Arti-cles of Faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints." Given by Miss Lillian Dodd, Raleigh. "William Willard Ashe, f 1872-1932)." By William A. Dayton. Multi-graphed. Given by Mr. Wm. A. Dayton, Senior Forest Ecologist in charge of Range Forest Investigations in United States Department of Agriculture. The Constitution and By-Laics of the Catauba County Historical Asso-ciation. [1936.] Given by the Catawba County Historical Asso-ciation. Response to the Toast Our Sister State. By Justice Heriot Clarkson at Annual Banquet of the South Carolina Bar Association, Columbia, S. C, February 18, 1938. Printed. "Address of Heriot Clarkson . . . . , Founders' Day Anniversary . . . Johnson C. Smith Uni-versity, April 7, 1938." Mimeographed. Given by Justice Heriot Clarkson, Raleigh. Parish Directory of Christ Church. Raleigh, N. C, 1938. Printed. Star of the South. Published Monthly by Seaboard Air Line. March, 1891. Printed. Given by Mr. D. L. Corbitt, Raleigh. II. New Collections. 1. Personal Papers: John Huske Anderson Papers. Letters, deed, powers of attorney, etc. Given by Mr. John Huske Anderson, Raleigh. Sophia Partridge Papers. School accounts of private school, 1849-1865; 1 album, 1834-1839; 4 letters, 1861-64 and undated, from Sophia Partridge to Ellen Calhum (Mrs. Richard Seawellj; and 1 recipe. Given by Miss Sophia P. Busbee, Raleigh. George W. Connor Papers. Letter—Miss Lucy Edwards to Judge Con-nor, June 5, 1935. Tj-pescript. Pamphlet: Memoir of Xathaniel Macon, of Xorth Carolina, by Weldon N. Edwards. Raleigh, 1862. Printed. Given by Judge George W. Connor. Sally Joyner Davis Collection. 2 letters: R. R. Heath to Governor Thomas Bragg, Julj' 4, 1858, and Thomas Bragg to R. R. Heath, July 20, 1858. Given by Miss Sally Joyner Davis, Greenville. Mrs. Robert L. Gray Collection, 1792-1897. Deeds: Frederick Hargett, Willie Jones, and others to Ephraim Parsons, June 9, 1792; Thomas Hamilton to Patsey McKethan, 1806; Maria McKethan and Martha Brickell, January 9, 1826; Drury and Mary R. Lacy to Benjamin Rice Lacy, July 14, 1874; Benjamin R. Lacy, to Drury Lacy, Oct., 1879; Mrs. Grissy L. Ryan to Rev. Drury Lacy, Dec. 27, 1866. Loaned by Mrs. Robert L. Gray, Raleigh. John A. Green Collection, 1832-1857. 13 letters and accounts. Given by Mr. John A. Green, Wilson, through Miss Sophia P. Busbee, Raleigh. A. J. Maxwell Papers. Radio address "Neglected North Carolina," delivered by him November 17, 1937. Mimeographed. Given by Mr. A. J. Maxwell, Raleigh. General Lafayette Papers, 1825-1826. Letter from Lafayette to John McRae, Fayetteville, Jan. 27, 1826; address by Lafayette during his visit to Fayetteville in 1825; toast offered by him while there. Loaned by Mrs. Dora Virginia McRae, Chapel Hill. John A. Cobb Papers. 46 deeds, grants, etc., 1767-1875 and undated. Loaned by the heirs of John A. Cobb, 4 miles from Conetoe, N. C, through Mrs. J. L. Jackson, Raleigh. Albert Ray Newsome Papers. Address made at the unveiling of the D. A. R. Memorial in Raleigh, Jan. 28, 1936, by Dr. Albert Ray 16 Seventeenth Biennial Report Newsome, Head of Department of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Typescript copy. Given by Mrs. O. A. Lester, Raleigh. Cornelia S. MacMillan Collection. 64 grants and deeds, and Neil Mc- Millan's commission as lieutenant signed by Rd. Caswell, Sept. 22, 1787. Loaned by Miss Cornelia S. MacMillan, Red Springs. William M. Sweeny Collection. Photostat and typescript copy of a letter: Jas. Read to Gen. Sumner, Sept. 12, 1780. Given by Mr. William M. Sweeny, Astoria, N. Y. Mary B. Harding Collection. 1 letter, Jane A. Blakeley to Edward Jones, March 6, 1817. Given by Miss Mary B. Hardin, Salt Lake City, Utah. Kate McKimmon Papers. 242 letters, invitations, sketch of St. Mary's Chapel, engraving of A. N. McKimmon, and 13 cancelled stamps. Loaned by Mrs. Carl K. Hill, Raleigh. Mrs. Ray Palmer Collection. 7 deeds, 1796-1804, and 1 petition, 1850. Given by Mrs. Ray Palmer, Chevy Chase, Maryland. Strickland Papers. 16 business letters, deeds, etc., 1847-1870. Pur-chased from Mrs. R. A. Ricks, Raleigh. 2. Diaries: Typescript copies of diary of Rufus Barringer. The original diary was loaned to the Commission for copying by Mr. Osmond L. Bar-ringer, Charlotte, and later returned to him. Henry King Burgwyn, 1840-1848, 2 volumes; John Fanning Burgwyn, 1855-1856, 1 volume, diary and accounts. Loaned by Mrs. Thos. W. M. Long, Roanoke Rapids. 3. County Records: Granville County Records. Certified copy of marriage bond of Na-thaniel Macon and Hannah Plummer, 1783. Given by Miss Susan Davis, Oxford, through Miss Lillian Dodd, Raleigh. Onslow County Records. Wills of Jinkin Averitt, 1801, and Richard Averitt, 1800. Typescript copies given by Mrs. Louis A. Mahler, Raleigh. Marriage licenses: 43 from Friedburg, Davidson County, 1826-1860. 8 from Friedburg, Forsyth County, 1850-1859. 100 from Salem and Friedburg, Stokes County, 1843-1847. Given by Moravian Church in America, Southern Province, through Dr. Adelaide L. Fries, Winston-Salem. 4. Account Books: Ledger said to be that of John C. Ehringhaus, merchant, Elizabeth City. Given by Rev. George F. Hill, Elizabeth City. 93 miscellaneous account books, 1809-1915. Loaned by Person County Commissioners through courtesy of Mr. W. L. Younger, Roxboro. 251 miscellaneous account books from merchants of Wilson, Farmville, and other North Carolina towns. Given by Mr. Abram Slopack, Extension Division, State College, Raleigh. 5. Civil War: Special Order No. 6 [of General Sherman], April 27, 1865. Given by Mr. Cecil Bell, Raleigh. Confederate Scrap-Book, 1861-65. Prize winning scrap book compiled by Mary Vanice Laughlin, Tarboro, N. C. Also scrap book. State of North Carolina. Given by Miss Mary Vanice Laughlin, Tarboro. 6. Genealogy: "Parentage of Richard Dobbs Spaight (1758-1802) Governor of North Carolina." Typescript. Given by Mr. Edward T. Langford, Yonkers, N. Y. Birth certificate of Virginia Dare, August 18, 1587. Given by the State Board of Health, Raleigh. Records of births, deaths, and marriages of Nisbets and allied families. N. C. Historical Commission 17 1800-1887. Copied from fragments of a family Bible owned by Mrs. R. P. Townsend, Millbrook, and given by her. Three typescript copies. Toast to North Carolina by S. Janie Brown and a short sketch of her life by Mrs. James L. Josey of Scotland Neck, N. C. Given by Miss Ruth Davenport, Raleigh. Typescript and manuscript. Chart of Stephens-Massie lines. Given by Mrs. Nils Anderson, Plain-field, N. J. "Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary of Patrick Van Buren Webb and Fanny Hagins of Edgecombe County, N. C." Mimeographed. Given by Mr. Mark Byron, Jr., New York. Lithographed. Ann Arbor, Mich-igan: Edwards Brothers, Inc. 1936. Pp. xv, 1195. Given by the publishers. 7. Miscellaneous: Chart of "The Government of North Carolina." Prepared by North Carolina State Planning Board, October, 1937. Printed. Given by North Carolina State Planning Board, Raleigh. Reminiscences of Judge Walter A. Montgomery, 1843-1921. Typescript. Loaned by Mrs. Walter A. Montgomery, Raleigh. Broadside "To Tobacco Planters. The Inspection of Tobacco is revived in the Town of Clarksville, Situated on the Roanoke ... in County of Mecklenburg. . . . March, 1832." Printed sheet. 2 copies. Given by Mr. W. L. Younger, Roxboro. National Park Museum, Cherokee Indians, Items 12 through 18—1802. Given by Mr. H. C. Wilburn, Waynesville. Items 1 through 11, photostats. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh, through courtesy of Mr. Wilburn. Presentation speech by Dr. J. Fred Rippy introducing Dr. Ralph Mc- Donald during the political campaign of 1936. Typescript. Given by Dr. J. Fred Rippy, Durham. Hiram Lewis Grant—Commission as Additional Paymaster U. S. Vol-unteers, December, 1903. Given by Mr. Howard Snipes, Princeton. Geographical Notes on the Mountain District of North Carolina by Arnold Guyot, and Copy of Notes of Wm. Davenport. Survey N. C-Tenn. State Line (1821). (Copy of book of field notes.) Typescript. Given by Mr. W. C. Wilburn, Waynesville. "The Joseph Hewes Shipyard," by W. D. Pruden. Typescript. Given by Mr. W. D. Pruden, Edenton. Old books: 1 volume Book of Common Prayer and Bible bound to-gether. 1773. 1 volume bound newspapers, Halifax Minerva, Jan-uary 24, 1829-February 24, 1831. Halifax. Loaned by Mrs. Helen Marshall through Mr. Richard D. White, Baltimore. Fire Engine Co., No. 2. Minute Book, 1833-1853. Manuscript volume. Given by Mr. George McNeill, Fayetteville. Social Security Survey of Emergency Relief Cases Covered by the Federal Social Security Act. Mimeographed. Given by North Caro-lina Emergency Relief Administration, Mrs. Thomas O'Berry, Ad-ministrator, Raleigh. "County Histories of the United States of America." Compiled by F. Douglas Halverson. Reference book. Purchased from Mr. F. Douglas Halverson, Salt Lake City, Utah. Address, "The Historical Records Survey in North Carolina," by Dan Lacy, Assistant State Director, Historical Records Survey, Raleigh. Typescript. Given by Mr. Dan Lacy, Raleigh. Report of the Medicinal Plants, Roots, etc., grown in the State. Pre-pared for the Agricultural Society of . . . North Carolina . . . Raleigh, . . . Oct. 17-19. Manuscript. By A. A. Scroggs, Lenoir, Caldwell County. Given by Dr. R. W. Leiby, Raleigh. Copies of 17 letters of John J. Armfield, Guilford County. Typescript. Given by Historical Records Survey, Raleigh. "Some Poems of the Coast Lands," written and read by Rev. Andrew 18 Seventeenth Biennial Report J. Howell before the State Literary and Historical Association, December 3, 1937. Typescript. Given by Rev. Andrew J. Howell, Wilmington. Lists of Federal Archives in North Carolina. Typescript. Given by Survey of Federal Archives, Raleigh. Newspaper clipping from Massachusetts Federalist, Dec. 21, 1803, con-cerning discovery of gold in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. Pur-chased from Mr. E. H. Frost, Yonkers, N. Y. Transcripts of papers in Bayard v. Singleton. In Craven County Su-perior Court. New Bern Courthouse. Made by Miss Mary Louise Stapleford, May, 1937. Typescript. Given by Historical Records Survey, Raleigh. Photostat of a testimonial presented to Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, signed by constitutional officers and heads of departments. Pur-chased from Carolina Blue Printers through courtesy of Mr. Harry McMullan, Raleigh. Photostat of Plans of State Capitol Building, Atwood & Nash, Inc., Architects and Engineers, Chapel Hill, N. C. Measured and drawn by Philip Schwartz and Ross E. Shumaker, 1924. Scale, 14 inch to 1 foot. 18 pieces. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers through courtesy of Budget Bureau, Raleigh. Article, "Nathaniel Batts and the First Permanent Settlement in the Carolinas," by W. P. Gumming, Davidson. 1936. Typescript. Given by Dr. Gumming. 1 copy of Bulletin of the Archaelogical Society of North Carolina, Vol. Ill, No. 2, September, 1938. Mimeographed. Given by the Archaeo-logical Society of North Carolina. The First Hundred Years. A Short History of Cobb County in Georgia, by Sarah Blackwell Gober Temple. Printed. Given by Miss E. Katherine Anderson, Marietta, Georgia. Received by purchase from the Carolina Blue Printers the following photostats: Confederate States Copyright Records, 1858-1865; 10 title pages of books to be copyrighted; 4 letters 1862-64, from Wm. Bingham and Frank J. Wilson on copyrights. Included also is a copy of a letter from Dr. C. C. Crittenden to Dr. P. M. Hamer, November 13, 1936, concerning these records. History of Woodbury and Cannon County, Tennessee. 1936. Print-ed. Given by Miss Grace Christine Brown, Woodbury, Tennessee. 8. Pamphlets: North Carolina Biological Survey, Bulletin No. 1 . . . 1893. Printed. Given by Mrs. E. B. Camp, Waynesville. Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, October, 1935. Printed. Given by Miss Mae McMichael, Washington, D. C. Year Book of the National Society of United States Daughters of 1812, State of Tennessee, June 1, 1933-June 1, 1935. Organized May 7, 1909. Contains list of soldiers of War of 1812 buried in Tennessee. Compiled by Mrs. L. W. McCown and Mrs. W. P. Bailey. Printed, Given by Mrs. Leonidas W. (Mary Harden) McCown, Johnson City, Tennessee. The Moravian Graveyard, Salem, N. C, by William A. Blair. Printed. Given by Mr. William A. Blair, Winston-Salem. Hodge's North-Carolina Almanack for the year of our Lord 1199. Pur-chased from Mr. C. F. Cagney, State Prison, Raleigh. "Geography of North Carolina." Set of questions and answers. Com-piled by Fifth Grade of Franklinton Public School, Franklinton, N. C. Lessie V. Chandler, teacher. Published by Betsy Winston. Mimeographed. Given by Miss Lessie V. Chandler, Franklinton. Memorial of Nash Cheek. Printed. Given by Mrs. Margaret Chapin, Raleigh. Report of the Roanoke Colony Commission of the United States, Joseph T. Robinson, Chairman. Submitted to the 72nd Congress N. C. Historical Commission 19 of the U. S., Jan. 14, 1933. Printed. Given by Dr. Frederick Til-berg, Raleigh. 200th Anniversary of the building of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. . . . By Rt. Rev. Thomas C. Darst, D. D., Bishop. Rev. Charles Aylett Ashhy. Rector. Printed. Given by Mrs. J. M. Winfree, Raleigh. Address, North Carolina Prophets and the Twentieth Century. Deliv-ered by William T. Polk before the annual meeting of the State Literary and Historical Association, December 3, 1936. Printed. Given by Mr. William T. Polk, Warrenton. Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, North Carolina edi-tion, September, 1936. Printed. Given by Mrs. R. R. Stone, Wil-mington. DIVISION OF DOCUMENTS I. Classification and Arrangement. Most of the accessions listed in this report have been classified, arranged, and filed during the biennium. They comprise ap-proximately 95,000 pieces of miscellaneous court papers from Bertie, Burke, Gates, and Pasquotank counties and from Morgan District; 40 maps; 10 issues of newspapers; and miscellaneous items. II. Cataloging. Some cataloging has been done, but since classification and arrangement have had to be undertaken first, much cataloging is yet to be done. During the biennium approximately 1,200 volumes from the office of the Secretary of State, the State Treasurer, and the Comptroller, as well as volumes from Wake, Burke, and Wilkes counties, have been cataloged. About 500 vol-umes of personal account books have been cataloged. The 93,000 pieces of miscellaneous court papers mentioned above have been cataloged. The National Youth Administration project has com-pleted abstracting all of the marriage bonds (664 boxes) and has verified the contents of 651 of these boxes. Of the latter, 159 boxes have been alphabetized and typed. All newspapers and maps received during the biennium have been cataloged. III. Repair. The Restorer of Manuscripts has prepared 15,373 sheets of manuscript for binding. Of these, 8,542 sheets were mended with tissue paper, 367 were covered with crepeline, 40 were reinforced on the back with heavy paper, and 369 were treated with gelatine size (a process recently adopted by the Restorer). Of these sheets, 12 volumes were bound by the Restorer in loose-leaf binders and 99 volumes were made ready for the bindery. 20 Seventeenth Biennial Report Approximately 33,000 small pieces of paper with arsenate of lead (insect poison) spread upon them were placed in boxes of manu-scripts in the archives. IV. Binding. The following volumes were bound or rebound during the biennium : Indexes to marriage bonds of various counties. Typed. 18 volumes. First Census of the United States. Printed. 11 volumes. The No7-th Carolina Historical Review, Vol. Xlll (1936). 14 copies. Ihid., Vol. XIV (1937). 14 copies. Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Censuses of the United States (1850, 1860, and 1870). Original manuscript returns. 52 volumes. Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Beaufort County. Manuscript. 1 volume. Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Hyde County. Manuscript. 1 volume. V. Use of Records : During the biennium visits to the offices of the Commission for the purpose of consulting the manuscript records of North Caro-lina history numbered 3,423. Of these, 2,646 were made by North Carolinians; and 777 were made by persons from Ala-bama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Ken-tucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minne-sota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Caro-lina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Vir-ginia, Wisconsin, Canada, and England—a total of thirty-four states, the District of Columbia, and two foreign countries. Of the total number of visits, 719 were made by graduate students and faculty members of various educational institutions, and other persons engaged in serious research. Among the col-leges and universities represented were the following: the University of North Carolina, Duke University, Miner Teachers' College, Elon College, Teachers' College at Buffalo, New York, St. Mary's School, Ohio State University, Vanderbilt University, Meredith College, the University of Durham, England, New York University, Harvard University, the University of Virginia, and Davidson College, Among the topics of research in which these visitors were engaged were: land titles in western North Carolina, Loyalism in North Carolina during the American Revolution, the middle classes in North Carolina before 1861, a history of Alamance N. C. Historical Commission 21 County, the Southern free Negro before the Civil War, the life of Peter Stuart Ney, the life of E. J. Hale, population move-ments and linguistic changes, the state university movement in the South before 1861, the history of plank roads in North Caro-lina, a biography of G. W. Campbell, the secession movement in North Carolina, the administration of Governor Daniel Russell, the business activities of John Gray Blount and his family, the cartography of early Carolina, a biography of Governor Mont-fort Stokes, the life of L. L. Polk, an historical novel on Recon-struction in North Carolina, a biography of James Iredell, the history of Fort Fisher, the life of Joseph Blount Cheshire, the history of tobacco in North Carolina and Virginia since 1860, land distribution in eighteenth-century North Carolina, the his-tory of lotteries in North Carolina, the beginnings of scientific forestry in North Carolina, Zebulon B. Vance as Civil War governor, the life of John Forsythe, ratification of the Federal Constitution in North Carolina, the battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, and the mercantile activities of Thomas Macknight, colonial merchant and planter. A total of 616 certified copies from the records of the Com-mission, necessary for pension claims and for admission to patriotic societies, have been prepared and furnished without charge to North Carolinians and others. Of these, 366 were supplied to North Carolinians, and 250 to persons outside the state, as follows: Alabama, 3; Arkansas, 13; Colorado, 3; Dis-trict of Columbia, 38; Florida, 13; Georgia, 44; IlHnois, 4; Indiana, 17; Kentucky, 3; Louisiana, 4; Maryland, 2; Michigan, 1 ; Missouri, 23 ; Mississippi, 12 ; New Mexico, 2 ; New York, 17 ; North Carolina, 366; Oklahoma, 3; Oregon, 2; South Carohna, 11; Tennessee, 15; Texas, 6; Virginia, 13; West Virginia, 1. Research has been done by the staff to establish the eligibility of many Civil War and Revolutionary soldiers for gravestones which are suppled by the United States War Department. During the biennium more than 5,000 letters have been writ-ten in the conduct of the business of the Commission. Questions concerning the history of North Carolina, often involving re-search by members of the staff, have been answered in many cases, but inquiries of a personal or genealogical nature have been referred to independent researchers or genealogists. In order to answer fully all genealogical inquiries the state would 22 Seventeenth Biennial Report have to spend $10,000 or more annually, and the expenditure of so large an amount of public funds in order to serve a private purpose would hardly seem justifiable. PUBLICATIONS Among the most essential functions of the Historical Com-mission is the publication of materials relating to North Caro-lina history. During the biennium the program along this line has been continued, and the following publications have been issued : 1. Bulletin No. 3S. Sixteenth Biennial Report of the North Carolina Historical Commission, July 1, 1934-June 30, 1936. (Raleigh: 1936. Pp. 31.) 2. The North Carolina Historical Review. Volumes XIII, Nos. 3-4; XIV, Nos. 1-4; XV, Nos. 1-2. (Raleigh: 1936-38. Pp. 204; 430; 182.) The eight issues of this quarterly journal have contained 22 articles and 11 sec-tions of documents, in addition to book reviews and historical news. 3. The Historical Records of North Caroliiia. Volume I, Alamance- Columbus. Prepared by the Historical Records Survey of the Works Prog-ress Administration. Edited by C. C. Crittenden and Dan Lacy. (Raleigh: 1938. Pp. xii, 491.) In press is: The Historical Records of North Carolina, Volume II, Craven-Moore. Prepared by the Historical Records Survey of the Works Progress Administration. Edited by C. C. Crittenden and Dan Lacy. In preparation are the following : 1. The Historical Records of North Carolina. Additional volumes con-taining lists of the remaining county records, the state records, public manuscript collections, church records, and miscellaneous manuscript ma-terials. 2. History of the North Carolina Counties. By D. L. Corbitt. 3. Records of the Moravians in North Carolina. Edited by Adelaide L. Fries. Volume V. 4. Handbook of Historical Highway Markers in North Carolina. HISTORICAL MARKERS The historical highway marker program, authorized by the Legislature in 1935 and conducted co-operatively by the High-way and Public Works Commission, the Department of Con-servation and Development, and the Historical Commission, has been continued. During the early part of the biennium the necessary research and travel were done mainly by the Collector for the Hall of History, but this arrangement, which took her away too much from her regular duties, was found unsatisfac-tory and was abandoned. For several months the work was almost at a standstill, but in March, 1938, a special appropria-tion was made for this purpose from the Contingency and Emergency Fund, Miss Marybelle Delamar was placed on the N. C. Historical Commission 23 pay roll as Researcher-Highway Markers, and the program was resumed. Each legend was approved by the historians of the Executive Committee on Historical Markers, who without remuneration generously gave many hours of their time. These historians were A. R. Newsome, H. T. Lefler, and Cecil Johnson of the University of North Carolina ; D. A. Lockmiller and L. W. Earn-hardt of State College ; F. W. Clonts and G. W. Paschal of Wake Forest College ; W. K. Boyd, W. A. Mabry, and J. T. Lanning of Duke University ; and T. W. Lingle and F. W. Johnston of David-son College. During the biennium the legends for 87 markers (making a total of 139 since the beginning of the program) were sent to the foundry, as follows: HOME OF THOMAS J. JARVIS, Currituck Countv. "HOPE," THE BIRTHPLACE OF DAVID STONE, Bertie County. SITE OF THE BATTLE OF SOUTH MILLS, Camden County. "HAYES," THE HOME OF SAMUEL JOHNSTON, Chowan County. SITE OF "EDEN HOUSE," Bertie County. CHOWAN COUNTY COURTHOUSE, Chowan County. DISMAL SWAMP CANAL, Camden County. FIRST ASSEMBLY, Pasquotank County. FIRST SCHOOL, Pasquotank County. SITE OF BATTLE OF ROANOKE ISLAND, Dare County. ST. THOMAS CHURCH, Beaufort County. KILL DEVIL HILL, Dare County. SITE OF "KIRBY GRANGE," THE HOME OF CHRISTOPHER GALE, Beaufort County. FIRST PUBLIC LIBRARY, Beaufort County. GRANVILLE GRANT, Hyde County. BATTLE OF PLYMOUTH, Washington County. PLACE WHERE RAM ALBEMARLE WAS SUNK, Washington County. FORT MACON, Carteret County. LANDING OF BARON DE GRAFFENRIED, Craven County. BATTLE OF NEW BERN, Craven County. SITE OF FORT TOTTEN, Craven County. GRAVE OF ALEXANDER LILLINGTON, Pender County. FORT JOHNSTON, Brunswick County. FORT CASWELL, Brunswick County. HOME OF THOMAS BRAGG, Northampton County. ROCKY MOUNT MILLS, Nash County. MASONIC LODGE, Halifax County. SITE OF "THE GROVE," HOME OF W^ILLIE JONES, Halifax County. HOME OF MATT W. RANSOM, Northampton County. HOME OF CHARLES BRANTLEY AYCOCK, Wayne County. GRAVE OF RICHARD CASWELL, Lenoir County. PLACE WHERE JOHN LAWSON WAS KILLED, Greene County. GROVE CHURCH, Duplin County. GRAVE OF WILLIAM HOOPER, Orange County. FARM ON WHICH BRIGHT LEAF TOBACCO WAS FIRST GROWN, Caswell Countv. CASWELL COUNTY COURTHOUSE, Caswell County. SITE OF HOME OP FRANCIS NASH, Orange County. GRAVE OF THOMAS RUFFIN, Orange County. OXFORD ORPHANAGE, Granville County. "ROSE HILL," HOME OF BEDFORD BROWN, Caswell County. 24 Seventeenth Biennial Report GRAVE OF ARCHIBALD DEBOW MURPHEY, Orange County. SITE OF GOVERNOR'S PALACE, Wake County. WAKE FOREST COLLEGE, Wake County. SITE OP "ROCKREST," WHERE CAPTAIN JOHNSTON BLAKELEY LIVED, Chatham County. BIRTHPLACE OF ANDREW JOHNSON, Wake County. GRAVE OF JOHN OWEN, Chatham County. JOHN CHAVIS MEMORIAL PARK, Wake County. GRANVILLE GRANT, Chatham-Lee line. SITE OF HOME OF WM. RUFUS KING, Sampson County. SITE OF HOME OF GABRIEL HOLMES, Sampson County. SITE OF HOME OF JOHN OWEN, Bladen County. SITE OF BIRTHPLACE OF DOLLY MADISON, Guilford County. "LAND OF EDEN," Rockingham County. BROTHERS HOUSE, Forsyth County. SHALLOW FORD, Forsyth County. TOMB OF WALTER HINES PAGE, Moore County. SITE OF HOME OF JONATHAN WORTH, Randolph County. TRINITY COLLEGE, Randolph County. SITE OF HOME OF FLORA MacDONALD, Randolph County. SANDY CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH AND GRAVE OP SHUBAEL STEARNS, Randolph County. SITE OP CONFEDERATE PRISON, Rowan County. LAST FULL MEETING OF CONFEDERATE CABINET, Mecklenburg County. HOUSE IN WHICH JEFFERSON DAVIS SPENT THE NIGHT, Ca-barrus County. BRANCH OP U. S. MINT, Mecklenburg County. REED GOLD MINE, Cabarrus County. HOME OP NATHANIEL ALEXANDER, Cabarrus County. DAVIDSON COLLEGE, Mecklenburg County. THYATIRA CHURCH, Rowan County. BIRTHPLACE OF ANDREW JACKSON, Union County. HOME OF JOHN W. ELLIS, Rowan County. GRANVILLE GRANT, Rowan-Cabarrus county line. HOME OF MONTFORD STOKES, Wilkes County. GRAVES OF DANIEL BOONE'S PARENTS, Davie County. FORT DEFIANCE, Caldwell County. WALDENSIANS, Burke County. QUAKER MEADOWS, Burke County. PLEASANT GARDENS, McDowell County. YELLOW MOUNTAIN ROAD, Avery County. BATTLE OF RAMSOUR'S MILL, Lincoln County. GILBERT TOWN, Rutherford County. SUMMER HOME AND GRAVE OP C. G. MEMMINGER, Henderson. County. BIRTHPLACE OF DAVID L. SWAIN, Buncombe County. HOME AND GRAVE OP EDGAR W. ("BILL") NYE, Henderson County. SITE OF "HIGH HAMPTON," THE SUMMER HOME OF WADE HAMPTON, Jackson County. GRAVE OF JUNALUSKA, Graham County. SPOT WHERE TSALI SURRENDERED TO GENERAL SCOTT, Swain County. JUDACULLA ROCK, Jackson County. N. C. Historical Commission 25 STIMULATION OF HISTORICAL INTEREST AND INVESTIGATION In many ways the Historical Commission has worked to stim-ulate interest and promote research in history, especially North Carolina history. In the Commission's archives are vast quanti-ties of state and county records and of personal papers. These have been made constantly available to the public, and members of the Commission's staff have assisted researchers in every way possible. Hundreds of queries on the history of the state have been answered. The published volumes and pamphlets of the Commission, together with its quarterly journal, The North Carolina Historical Revieiv, have publicized many phases of the state's history. The Secretary of the Commission has made numerous addresses over the radio and directly to patriotic and historical groups. He has represented the Commission at the annual meetings of the American Historical Association and of the Southern Historical Association. He has been appointed Chairman of the Committee on the Publication of Archival Ma-terial of the Society of American Archivists. Mr. D. L. Corbitt attended the 1937 session of the Society of American Archivists, and Miss Mattie Erma Edwards was present the same year at the annual session of the Association of American Museums. The historical highway marker program (see above, pp. 22-24) and the various Works Progress Administration projects with which the Commission has cooperated (see below, pp. 31-33) have resulted in increased public interest in matters historical. HALL OF HISTORY During the past biennium three persons have served as Col-lector for the Hall of History: Miss Marybelle Delamar (Acting Collector), July 1, 1936-March 31, 1937; Mrs. Caroline String-field (Acting Collector), April 1-July 31, 1937; and Miss Mattie Erma Edwards, August 1, 1937-June 30, 1938. Miss Edwards had been on leave of absence since February 9, 1936, serving as Assistant Regional Director of the Survey of Federal Archives. During the first part of the biennium it was necessary for the Collector to spend almost all her time in research for historical highway markers. For the past year, however, she has devoted her full time to the museum. One of the most important accomplishments of the past year was to plan the space tentatively allotted to the Hall of History in the new state office building, now under construction. In an 26 Seventeenth Biennial Report effort to make certain that the new quarters would incorporate architectural features needed to develop a modern, effective his-torical museum, the Collector visited museums in other cities and consulted authorities in the museum field. The new quarters have been planned as nearly in accordance with modern trends in museum design as has seemed possible in a building most of which is to be used for offices. Enlarged space will make possible a much needed reorganiza-tion of exhibits, and careful plans have been worked out for this purpose. The various collections have been analyzed and are to be arranged by subject and by period. The division of the new quarters into a number of separate rooms will make it possible to follow these plans effectively. The Collector planned and arranged the Fort Raleigh Museum exhibit for the celebration on Roanoke Island of the 350th anni-versary of the coming of the "Lost Colony," 1937. She assisted in arranging the exhibits for the same museum the following year. In the fall of 1937 a special exhibit commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Federal Constitution was arranged in the Hall of History. In March, 1938, an exhibit of North Carolina in the Revolution was prepared at the Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, in connection with the annual state convention of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Much thought has been given to the problem of erecting a suitable memorial to the late Col. Fred A. Olds, creator of the Hall of History. Such a memorial was authorized by the Legis-lature in 1937, when $500 was appropriated for the purpose. In accordance with the modern museum practice of erecting "living" memorials in the form of special memorial exhibits, the His-torical Commission, following the recommendation of the Col-lector, resolved that the Olds memorial should take the form of a special exhibit on the history of transportation in North Caro-lina. A model of the airplane used by the Wright brothers in their famous flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903 has been secured, and arrangements have been made to obtain models of the Hattie Butner stagecoach, of a Nissen covered wagon, and of other vehicles relating to the history of the state. No stone is being left unturned in the effort to provide a memorial which will be worthy of the founder of the museum. As in past years, tens of thousands of visitors have come to the Hall of History. Classes of school children, who formed a N. C. Historical Commission 27 large proportion of the visitors, have been shown the various exhibits. The Collector has co-operated with the schools by giv-ing talks on special topics to history classes and by helping individual children obtain information on topics assigned to them. She prepared the script for Tar Heel Tales, a series of radio broadcasts from Station WPTF, Raleigh, in the spring of 1938. Since in the past the acceptance of loans has given rise to various problems, this practice has now been abandoned except in rare cases. Loans are now accepted only upon the advice of a special advisory committee. Material accessioned during the biennium is as follows : Books: 1. Facsimile of Thomas Hariot, A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia. London, 1588. Given by Dr. Randolph G. Adams, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 2. Lionel Yexley, The Third Great War Number of the Fleet Annual and Year Book. London, 1917. Loaned by Mr. Frank King, Raleigh. Clothing : 1. Dress-coat and hat worn by R. M. Saunders and court dress and train worn by Mrs. Saunders at the Spanish court when the former was minister to Spain. Given by Mrs. Bradley S. Johnson, Richmond, Virginia. . 2. Pair of hand-tanned leather shoes. Loaned by Mrs. V^. B. Humphries, Woodsdale. 3. Two ladies' hats made about 1857. Given by Mr. J. E. Adams, Raleigh. 4. Silk scarf with map of Greenville, South Carolina. Loaned by Mrs. N. E. Edgerton, Sr., Raleigh. 5. Gloves, fur cap, and fur cape of General James G. Martin. Given by Miss Lida S. Martin, Norfolk, Virginia. Coins: 1. Virginia Dare-Sir Walter Raleigh commemorative half-dollar. Given by Roanoke Island Historical Society, Manteo. 2. Four Spanish milled dollars, and one quarter-dollar. Given by Mr. Southgate Jones, Durham. Currency : 1. Two North Carolina five-cent notes, 1863. Given by Mr. Amos P. Breneisor, Scranton, Pennsylvania. 2 Two five-cent notes, one ten-cent note, one fifty-cent note, and one dollar note, all issued by the Bank of Tennessee, December 1, 1861. Given by Mr. W. McK. Bryan, Hermitage, Tennessee. 3. Twenty-dollar Confederate note. Given by Miss Sophie D. Busbee, Raleigh. ,^ tt i-. 4. One-hundred-dollar certificate of exchange, 1865. Given by Mr. H. B. Hunter, Raleigh. . .-, .-^ 5 Three pieces North Carolina colonial currency and eight pieces North Carolina currency issued during the Civil War. Given by Mr. South-gate Jones, Durham. .^ .. . o. ^ 5. One collection North Carolina bank notes. Given by United States District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina, Raleigh. Flags : 1. Henry Clay campaign banner. Given by Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Camp, Sanford. 28 Seventeenth Biennial Report 2. Two Whig campaign banners, 1840. Given by Miss Bettie Caldwell, Greensboro. 3. Confederate flag of the Fourth Regiment, North Carolina State Troops. Given by Mr. James R. Seltzer, Steubenville, Ohio. 4. Confederate flag which was flown over Fort Caswell during the Civil War. Given by Mrs. John Huske Anderson, Raleigh. 5. Confederate flag made by the women of Washington, North Carolina, and presented to the Washington Grays. Loaned by Mr. James Mc- Kimmon Saunders, Williamston. 6. Fragment of regimental flag presented to the Pamlico Rifles during the Civil War. Loaned by Mr. James McKimmon Saunders, Wil-liamston. 7. North Carolina flag, design adopted 1861. Loaned by Mr. Samuel W. Worthington, Wilson. 8. North Carolina flag, present design. Given by United States Flag and Signal Company, Norfolk, Virginia. Maps : 1. Historical map of Rowan County. Given by Miss Carrie Hammer, Salisbury. 2. Photostat map of the world from Sebastian Munster, Cosmographiae Universalis, Lib. VI. Basileae, 1550. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. Miscellaneous : 1. Medal commemorating 350th anniversary of the birth of Virginia Dare, Given by Dr. C. C. Crittenden, Raleigh. 2. Desk of Miss Sophia Partridge, teacher in Raleigh. Given by Miss Sophia Partridge Busbee, Raleigh. 2. Section of hand-made rope of basswood bark. Given by Mr. H. C. Wilburn, Waynesville. 4. Gavel made from holly tree which grew at Fort Raleigh. Loaned by State Literary and Historical Association of North Carolina. 5. Pair of wool cards. Given by Mrs. Ada C. Ehrman, Raleigh. 6. Six Indian arrowheads. Given by Mr. Horace Faulkner, Dover. 7. Three loving cups awarded for accomplishment in music and poetry Loaned by North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs. 8. Footwarmer. Loaned by Mrs. T. A. Brooks, Bath. 9. Wax doll of 1870. Given by Miss Lizzie Lee, Raleigh. 10. Piece of cloth used in the wings of the Wright aeroplane. Given by Mrs. K. B. Blood, New York. 11. Sewing kit which formerly belonged to Miss Sophia Partridge. Given by Miss Sophia Partridge Busbee, Raleigh. 12. Piece of beam from the White House. Given by Mrs. Charles F. Taylor, Goldsboro. 13. Hand-worked sampler. Loaned by Mrs. Margaret Chapin, Raleigh. 14. Self-acting blow torch. Given by Mr. Billy Howell, Raleigh. Pictures : 1. Moss picture of house near Pittsboro in which Cornwallis is said to have spent the night on his march to Wilmington after the battle of Guilford Courthouse, 1781. Made by Mrs. Lucy W. Jackson. Given by Miss Carrie Jackson, Pittsboro. 2. Crayon portrait of Kiffin Rockwell. Given by Mrs. Loula Rockwell and Mr. Paul A. Rockwell, Asheville. 3. Miniature of William Francis Collins. Bequeathed by Miss Katherine W. Collins, New Orleans, Louisiana. 4. Photograph of Judaculla rock. Given by Mr. Thomas A. Cox, CuUow-hee. 5. Photograph of Kiffin Rockwell II with portrait of Kiffin Rockwell, taken at the unveiling of the portrait of Kiffin Rockwell listed above. Given by Mr. J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, Jr., Raleigh. 6. Photograph of the birthplace of Governor Vance. Given by Mrs. Edith W. Tait, Montreat. N. C. Historical Commission 29 7. Drawing of "Pleasant Gardens," the Joseph McDowell home, McDowell County. Given by Mrs. A. G. Barnett, Asheville. 8. Photograph of a Negro baptism about 1903, "Wake County. Given by Miss Sophie D. Busbee, Raleigh. 9. Daguerreotype of Captain William Hamilton Overman. Given by Mrs. B. K. Van Wyck, Anderson, South Carolina. 10. Oil portrait of John White, agent for the state of North Carolina to Great Britain during the Civil War. Given by Mr. John W. Arrington, Greenville, South Carolina. 11. Picture of crypt of John Paul Jones in the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Given by Mrs. Charles F. Taylor, Goldsboro. 12. Engraving of Joseph Holden, Albion Tourgee, Robert W. Winston, James A. Weston, A. C. Wilson, Charles D. Mclver, John Pool, and John A. Wheeler. Given by Mr. Charles L. van Noppen, Greensboro. 13. Photostat negative of Visscher engraving of London, 1616. Given by Roanoke Island Historical Association, Manteo. 14. Nine photographs of Indian mound in Montgomery County and cere-monies initiating excavation of the mound by the North Carolina Archeological Society. Purchased from The Journal-Sentinel, Winston- Salem. 15. Photographs of paintings of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Richard Grenville. Purchased from Mr. Albert Barden, Raleigh. 16. Photograph of ruins of Saint Philips Church at old Brunswick. Given by Mr. H. K. Witherspoon, Raleigh. 17. Photograph of exterior of John Gray Blount home in Washington, N. C. Given by Mrs. William B. Rodman, Washington. 18. Lithograph of monument at Fort Raleigh. Given by Miss Mary Thorn-ton, Chapel Hill. 19. Photograph of engraving of Elizabeth Throckmorton. Purchased from Mr. Albert Barden, Raleigh. 20. Thirty-nine photographs of Indian mounds in North Carolina. Given by Mr. H. C. Wilburn, Waynesville. 21. Photographs of home of William Blount near New Bern, Richard Dobbs Spaight's grave, and historic cypress tree at New Bern. Given by Miss Gertrude Carraway, New Bern. 22. Photograph of birthplace of Daniel Boone, marker to Boone at Farm-ington, North Carolina, and foundation of Boone cabin at Farmington. Given by Mr. George H. Maurice, Eagle Springs. 23. Two photographs of Franklin County courthouse. Given by Dr. D. T. Smithwick, Louisburg. 24. Photograph of marble statuette of George Washington in Virginia Historical Society. Given by Mr. L. McK. Judkins, Richmond, Va. 25. Five prints from nineteenth century magazines illustrating historic events in North Carolina. Purchased from American Library Service, New York. 26. Photographs of scenes at New Garden (Guilford College) in 1874-75. Purchased from Mr. M. C. Henley, Guilford College. 27. Photograph of Robert E. Lee. Given by Dr. C. C. Crittenden, Raleigh. 28. Six photostats of engravings of Indians from De Bry edition of Harlot's Virginia. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. 29. Photograph of Fred A. Olds. Given by Mrs. Alexander Krett, Raleigh. 30. Eight pictures of items related to 0. Henry. Purchased from Mr. Early W. Bridges, Greensboro. 31. Souvenir calendar of Bath, 1905. Given by Mrs. W. B. Rodman, Wash-ington. 32. Nineteen photographs of articles owned by Richard Dobbs Spaight and the Blount family. Purchased from Mr. Elliot Lyman Fisher, Asheville. 33. Photograph of miniature of Maurice Moore. Purchased from Mr. Albert Barden, Raleigh. 34. Pictures of the Presidents of the United States. Given by Mrs William West, Raleigh. 30 Seventeenth Biennial Report 35. Eleven photostats showing methods used by Indians in making various articles. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. 36. Photograph of remains of home of Anna MacNeill (mother of James Whistler, the artist) near Clarkton. Given by Mrs. William H. Elliott, Fayetteville. 37. Print covering the erecting card of the old locomotive "Raleigh." Given by Mr. E. L. Roy, Norfolk, Virginia. 38. Photostats of pictures of the old hotel at Kittrell, tobacco warehouse at Durham, and the first steamboat on the Cape Fear. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. 39. Photostats of pictures showing methods of transporting tobacco in the 18th and 19th centuries. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. 40. Photostat drawings followed in constructing boats in Fort Raleigh museum representing vessels used to bring colonists to Roanoke Island in the 16th century. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. 41. Photostat diagram showing position of discoidal stones and "bowling alley" uncovered in the excavation of an Indian mound in Georgia. Given by the Roanoke Island Historical Association, Manteo. Photostats and Facsimiles of Documents : 1. Photostats of three broadsides issued in North Carolina on the Federal Constitution. Purchased from the United States Constitution Sesqui-centennial Commission, Washington, D. C. 2. Facsimiles of the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Purchased from United States Constitution Sesqui-centennial Commission, Washington, D. C. 3. Photostat of letter from George Washington to Richard Dobbs Spaight concerning the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. 4. Photostat of order of Chowan County court, 1747, setting rates to be charged by ordinary keepers. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. 5. Photostat of bond given by Elizabeth Horniblow, Richard Benbury, and James Horniblow, 1803, for license to operate ordinary at Edenton. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. 6. Photostat of first page of log book of the schooner Franklin, April, 1788. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. 7. Photostat of bill of lading for goods shipped on the sloop Salley from New Port to North Carolina, July 26, 1769. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. Photostats of Title Pages and Text of Books: 1. Title page of Sebastian Munster, Cosmographiae Universalis, Lib. VI. Basileae, 1550. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. 2. Title page of Richard Hakluyt, Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation. London, 1589. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. 3. Title page and first three pages of Peter d'Anghiera, The Historic of Travayle. London, 1577. Purchased from Carolina Blue Printers, Raleigh. Stamps and Cachets: 1. Stamp issued by France in honor of the sesquicentennial celebration of the signing of the Constitution of the United States. Given by Dr. C. C. Crittenden, Raleigh. 2. Envelope mailed in Auckland, New Zealand, brought by the Samoan Clipper in the first package of air mail to leave New Zealand. Given by Mr. John A. Park, Raleigh. 3. Mail envelope, first Baltimore-Bermuda flight, first United States transatlantic air mail. Given by Mr. John A. Park, Raleigh. N. C. Historical Commission 31 4. Envelope from Cristobal, C. Z., commemorating the twenty-fifth anni-versary of the first ocean-to-ocean flight over the Panama Canal, made by Robert G. Fowler in 1913, and an envelope dated May 15, 1938, from Washington, D. C, bearing the post office and American Airlines cachets, the air mail stamp commemorating the twentieth anniversary of air mail service, and cachet of Flag-ship Station. Given by Mr. John A. Park, Raleigh. 5. Post card carrying air mail stamp and cachet of commemorative flight from Kitty Hawk to Dayton, Ohio, in honor of the Wright Brothers, marking the twentieth anniversary of the inauguration of regular air mail service. Loaned by Mr. Samuel W. Worthington, Wilson. 6. Air mail envelope carrying air mail week cachets from Ponca City, Oklahoma, and Warrenton, North Carolina. Given by Dr. C. C. Crit-tenden, Raleigh. 7. Envelope carrying Juneau-Fairbanks first flight cachet. Given by Mr. John A. Park, Raleigh. 8. Envelope with cachet of commemorative flight from Kitty Hawk to Dayton on twentieth anniversary of the inauguration of regular air mail service. Given by Mr. John A. Park, Raleigh. 9. Envelope with air mail week cachet of Crewe, Virginia. Given by Mr. John Crittenden, Crewe, Virginia. War Relics: 1. Part of sword cane. Purchased from Mr. T. H. Liles, Richmond, Virginia. 2. German World War helmet. Loaned by Mr. Frank King, Raleigh. 3. Revolver used about 1870. Given by Mr. George William Britton, Ocean View, Virginia. 4. Gun of Civil War period. Loaned by Mr. G. S. High, Neuse. WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION PROJECTS As during the 1934-1936 biennium, a large part of the time and energy of the Secretary and other members of the Commis-sion's staff has been devoted to various Federal relief projects. A total of more than $200,000 (five times the biennial appro-priation of the Commission) has been spent on the various Works Progress Administration projects with which the Com-mission has co-operated, and a great deal of historical work, which could not have been handled by the Commission alone, has been prosecuted vigorously and successfully. As previously, these Federal relief projects fall under five heads: (1) miscellaneous projects, (2) the Fort Raleigh restora-tion, (3) a National Youth Administration project, (4) the Survey of Federal Archives, and (5) the Historical Records Survey. (1) Miscellaneous projects. Workers from the Library Project, the Art Project, and other projects have assisted in the preparation of catalogs and indexes, and have performed various tasks which were assigned to them. (2) The Fort Raleigh restoration. The buildings under con-struction at the end of the preceding biennium have been com- 32 Seventeenth Biennial Report pleted, a large open-air amphitheatre has been built, and other work has been done. (3) A National Youth Administration project. Under the direction of Mr. D. L. Corbitt, this project has continued the work of abstracting the marriage bonds in the archives of the Commission. To date 664 boxes or approximately 250,000 bonds have been abstracted. Of this number about 240,000 have been verified, and approximately 45,000 have been alphabetized and typed. Also, about 72,000 names in John W. Moore, com-piler, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, have been indexed. There remain only about 15,000 names to be indexed, after which all the names are to be verified, arranged, and typed. (4) The Survey of Federal Archives. This project, begun on a nation-wide basis early in 1936, was continued on that basis through June 30, 1937. During that period the Secretary of the Historical Commission acted as Regional Director of the Survey in North Carolina and Miss Mattie Erma Edwards, who had been granted a leave of absence as Collector for the Hall of History, served as Assistant Regional Director. After June, 1937, the project was organized on a state-wide basis under the direction of Miss Emily Bridgers. At the end of the biennium the preliminary listing of Federal records in North Carolina had been completed and a descriptive inventory of these records was in process of preparation. Copies of the various sections of this inventory were being placed in the Historical Commission's archives, and it was expected that they would prove useful to researchers. (5) The Historical Records Survey. From the standpoint of the Historical Comission, this was the most important of all the Works Progress Administration projects with which it was con-nected. Begun early in 1936, the Survey reached a high level of activity during the 1936-1938 biennium, and a total of almost $150,000 was spent in North Carolina during this period. With its major task, the inventorying of county records, well in hand, the Survey broadened its scope to include the listing of town, state, and church records, the preparation of calendars of manu-script collections, the listing of early American imprints, and the systematized collecting and filing of vital statistics from the older cemeteries in the state. By the end of the biennium the first volume of The Historical Records of North Carolina (pub-lished by the Historical Commission), containing lists of the N. C. Historical Commission 33 records of 26 counties, Alamance through Columbus, had been published; the second volume, covering 40 additional counties, Craven through Moore, was in press; and copy for the third volume of county lists, which was expected to include the last 34 counties, Nash through Yancey, was being prepared. In addi-tion, initial listings had been made of more than 70 per cent of the state records and of the archives of more than 1,000 towns; more than 1,200 church records forms had been filled out; more than 1,000 pages of calendars of manuscript collections had been prepared; more than 2,000 cemeteries had been surveyed; and more than 69,000 individual tombstone cards had been typed and filed. From the beginning of the Survey until June 30, 1937, the Secretary of the Historical Commission acted as its State Di-rector and Mr. Dan Lacy was Assistant State Director. On July 1, 1937, Mr. Lacy became State Director and at the end of the biennium still held that position. FINANCES The expenditures of the Historical Commission are made from biennial legislative appropriations, as allowed quarterly by the Budget Bureau. The following classified table shows the appro-priations and expenditures for each year of the biennium, 1936- 1938: 1936-1937 Appropriation Expenditures Appropriation Expenditures Salaries and Wages Supplies Postage, Telegrams, Telephone, Express. Drayage Travel Printing and Binding Repairs General Expense Equipment Additions and Betterments Totals Less estimated receipts Net expenditures from Appropriation.. $12,955 190 312 500 3,371 15 54 522 3,075 $20,994 700 $20,295 $12,950 189 309 497 3,336 11 53 521 2,796 $20, 662 677 $19,985 $15,125 300 315 650 4.998 25 77 733 1,400 $23,623 1,780 $21,843 $14,961 297 288 539 4,939 25 73 689 455 $22,266 1,790 $20,476 34 Seventeenth Biennial Report FORT RALEIGH In May, 1936, before the beginning of the biennium covered by the present report, the Historical Commission offered the Fort Raleigh tract to the National Park Service and that agency undertook to investigate the history of the site. As a result of this investigation, the Park Service announced in June, 1938, that it was ready to accept title to the fort. At the end of the biennium actual conveyance had not yet been made, but the transaction was expected to be completed within the near future. In the summer of 1937 a celebration of the 350th anniversary of the coming of "the Lost Colony" was held at Fort Raleigh. The chief attraction was Paul Green's historical drama, "The Lost Colony," which was presented in an amphitheatre at the fort several nights each week from July 4 through Labor Day. The play drew tens of thousands of visitors and succeeded so brilliantly that plans were made to continue it the following summer. NEW QUARTERS Probably the biennium's most significant development for the Historical Commission has been the allotment to it of space in a new building. Years ago the present quarters on the second floor of the State Administration Building, completed in 1914, were outgrown, but, largely because of the business depression beginning in 1929, no remedial action was taken until the 1936-38 biennium. The successful movement for new quarters got under way in 1936. The State Literary and Historical Association, which had been instrumental in the creation of the Historical Commission and which had always been closely allied with that agency, at its annual session on December 3-4, 1936, passed a resolution authorizing the Association's President to appoint a committee to bring to the attention of the Legislature at its forthcoming session the Commission's need for more space. President W. T. Laprade of Durham appointed the following legislative commit-tee: Willis Smith, Raleigh, Chairman; A. R. Newsome, Chapel Hill; W. D. Pruden, Edenton; J. M. Broughton, Raleigh; and Mrs. J. V. Higham, Raleigh. At a meeting in January, 1937, the committee discussed the proper method of procedure and the Chairman agreed to present the matter to the proper author-ities. He later stated the case to the Governor. N. C. Historical Commission 35 In the meantime other state departments had been clamoring for more space, and the Governor appointed a commission to investigate and report. Every state department claiming to need additional space was invited to state its requirements at a hearing of the commission. At such a hearing the Secretary of the Historical Commission explained the needs of that agency. As a result of the report of the Governor's commission of investigation, the Legislature passed a bill appropriating $675,- 000 for the erection of a new building and the Governor ap-pointed a building commission to carry on this work. Judge Walter D. Siler of Siler City, a member of the House of Repre-sentatives, was made Chairman, and Mr. Willis Smith was appointed a member. The building commission purchased a site at the northwest corner of Edenton and Salisbury streets, diagonally across from Capitol Square, and employed the firm of Northup and O'Brien of Winston-Salem as architects. The Historical Commission was allowed to deal directly with the architects, and several conferences were held with them. The Commission had already assembled a great deal of information concerning the quarters of historical agencies and museums else-where, and this information was used to good advantage. The building commission assigned to the Historical Commission the entire first floor and approximately one-half the basement floor of the new building. The essential features of the new quarters are as follows : (1) For the Hall of History there will be six large display rooms and three smaller display rooms, together with an office and a work room for the Collector and her assistants and sev-eral storage rooms of varying sizes. The latest and most approved devices of museum display will be employed, and it is believed that considerable improvement over the present system will result. (2) More adequate office and work space will be provided for the staff. Most of the offices will be on the first floor, and the several basement rooms will be used mainly for receiving, pack-ing, photography, the cleaning and repair of manuscripts, and similar purposes. (3) There will be suitable search rooms for the public. At the present time the researchers who use the manuscripts in the Commission's archives have to be crowded into one small office. In the new building they will have both a large search room and 36 Seventeenth Biennial Report a small search room. In each room there will be special desk, chair, and lighting equipment. (4) Most essential of all, there will be far more stack space than at present. In the existing quarters, archives are stored not only in the one small archive room, but also in the base-ment, in offices, and in every other available place. In the new building there will be three large archive rooms, one on the first floor and two in the basement. Each room will be sufficiently high-pitched to include two tiers of stacks. At the end of the biennium construction of the new building was proceeding apace and the work was expected to be com-pleted within a few months. It was believed that in its new quarters the Historical Commission would be able to serve the public more efficiently than ever before. A PROGRAM FOR THE FUTURE The North Carolina Historical Commission enjoys an enviable position as one of the leading historical agencies in the entire nation. Created and raised to a high standard of achievement under the able administration of Dr. R. D. W. Connor, now Archivist of the United States, the Commission, though sup-ported by smaller appropriations than a number of similar agencies throughout the country, neverthless is recognized as a pioneer in historical work. On no account should this position be lost or should the Commission fall behind similar agencies in other states. For more than a decade the Commission has been so crowded for space that it could not function in the most efficient manner or take full advantage of its various opportunities. Now that larger and better designed quarters are to be provided, however, an enlarged program can be undertaken. Probably it will not be possible to inaugurate this program all at once. Rather, each part will have to be undertaken as opportunity offers. As the time approaches when the Commission's new quarters will be ready, it seems appropriate to consider what problems will be faced and what ends should be sought within the next few years. First and most fundamental of all, the new quarters will need to be adequately equipped. Three large rooms have been ear-marked for archives, and these should be provided with shelving, manuscript boxes, and other archive equipment. For the several display and storage rooms designed for the Hall of History, N. C. Historical Commission 37 additional museum cases and other items will be needed. It would be illogical for the state to provide this space and then to fail to equip it suitably. Second, certain scientific and technical equipment will be needed. Within the past few years a number of new devices for archives have been developed, and the Commission should make use of at least a portion of these, as follows (a) A microfilm camera, a projecting machine, and related equipment. These devices, invented only a short time ago, make possible the reproduction of a manuscript or a printed page at very low cost. By using them the Commission will be able to secure copies of large numbers of manuscripts of which the originals cannot be obtained, thereby serving users of manu-scripts by making the latter available at a central point, and at the same time insuring that if the original document is destroyed a copy will still remain in existence. These devices will also make it possible for the Commission to provide the public at low cost with copies of manuscripts in its archives. The microfilm is rapidly becoming indispensable for an up-to-date archive agency. (b) A photostating machine. Frequently it is necessary to have made full-sized or near-full-sized facsimiles of manuscripts, either to be placed in the Commission's archives or to be sold to the public. At the present time this work is done for the Commission by a commercial concern in Raleigh, but it could be more advantageously performed by the Commission itself. The cost could be met in part by the profit from the sale of photo-stats. The Library of Congress and many other agencies are provided with such equipment. (c) A fumigating vault. As is generally known, one of the gravest dangers to manuscripts is from the various types of insects which attack them. In a fumigating vault all such insect life can be easily and quickly killed—as has been shown by the success of this process in the National Archives. The purchase of such equipment would be a wise investment for the state, yielding large returns in the preservation of priceless old papers. (d) A laminating machine. In the National Archives and elsewhere a new process for preserving old manuscripts, known as lamination, is being developed. On each side of the paper to be repaired is laid a sheet of cellulose acetate, with perhaps other reinforcing transparent or semi-transparent paper. The whole is placed in a steam press for a few minutes, and when it comes 38 Seventeenth Biennial Report out has been welded into a single unit. In this way a fragile old sheet of paper can be made stronger and more durable even than when it was new. Third, an enlarged program of acquiring and preserving his-torical records should be undertaken. This is the fundamental work of the Commission, and no other activity or interest should be allowed to interfere with it. Several different classifications of records are involved: (a) The state archives. If the Commission is to do its full duty along this line, it will eventually work out a system whereby the records of every state department and agency are trans-ferred to its jurdisdiction as soon as they become non-current. A two-fold benefit will result : On the one hand there will be made available badly needed space in the various state offices, none of which are provided with sufficient room to house quantities of old records. On the other hand, the preservation and expert care of these records will be insured. The Commission is not ready at the present time to undertake this function in its en-tirety, but a move in that direction should soon be made and the ultimate goal should constantly be borne in mind. (b) The county archives. In the courthouses of the state's one hundred counties are vast quantities of old records, useless in the conduct of current business but valuable for historica* purposes. Many of these records are carelessly stored in attics, in halls, in warehouses, in damp basements, and the like, where they are steadily deteriorating and are constantly in danger of total destruction. A large quantity of the county records have already been brought to the archives of the Historical Commis-sion, but many more should follow. (c) The records of individuals, merchants, churches, and the like. Systematic effort should be made to round up such ma-terials and to provide for their permanent preservation. Already the Commission and other agencies have accomplished a great deal along this line, but much remains to be done. It is a work which will never be completed and which should be continued indefinitely. Fourth, after records of various types have been acquired, they should be cleaned, repaired, classified, cataloged, and placed on the shelves. This is a tedious and laborious process, but is absolutely essential. It is of little use to collect records unless they receive adequate care and unless they are made available to the public. N. C. Historical Commission 39 Fifth, an expanded program of publication should be under-taken. In the past the Commission has published more than two dozen volumes of source materials and lists of such materials, together with numerous pamphlets. It publishes The North Carolina Historical Review, begun in 1924 and now in its fif-teenth volume. These publications represent a valuable invest-ment for the state, for they have done much to acquaint the nation with North Carolina history, concerning which a few decades ago most Americans were almost totally ignorant. Before 1931 the Commission was publishing every year, in addition to The Revieiv and various pamphlets, one or more volumes of documents. During the business depression of the early 1930's publication of such volumes was suspended, but in 1935 the program was resumed. At the present time one volume is being published each year. This rate should be accelerated. In the Commission's archives and elsewhere in the state are many important series of records, official and unofficial, which ought to be printed. In addition, a larger number of pamphlets and leaflets of general popular interest should be produced, especially for distribution to school children. Sixth, the Hall of History should increase its eifectiveness. In the past the average historical museum was a catch-all for almost anything old and curious, and seemed to attract especially guns, uniforms, and other paraphernalia of war. Recently, how-ever, many new practices have been adopted by such institutions. Not only have they become much more careful about what they acquire, but they have developed new and improved methods of displaying their acquisitions. The chief purpose of the Hall of History should be to tell the story of North Carolina's past, simply and so that anyone can understand it. Displays should be arranged according to a well planned system, and their effectiveness should be increased by such devices as dioramas, varied types of cases, lighting within cases, and the like. The present staff of the Commission is aware of the possibilities along such lines and rapid progress toward the desired goal may be expected. Seventh, the historical-highway-marker program should be continued. The markers already in place have won general approval and have shown the way to many significant historic spots previously unknown to the public. The work should be continued until every important historic place in the state has 40 Seventeenth Biennial Report been marked. Necessarily, the program will have to proceed slowly and carefully, and several years will be required to com-plete it. Eighth, historical places throughout the state should receive better care than at present. The Commission's aid is frequently sought in the care of old houses, of the graves of eminent per-sons, and of other historic spots, but at present it has no funds for such a purpose. Perhaps the best solution will be the crea-tion of a society to acquire and care for such places. An example of what can be done is furnished by the Association for the Pres-ervation of Virginia Antiquities. Formed half a century ago, this corporation now owns property worth perhaps half a million dollars and is caring for a number of historic old houses, some of which otherwise would have been destroyed. Though the Commission would co-operate in many ways with such an organi-zation, the latter would have a separate and distinct existence. Ninth, the Commission should continue to co-operate with such Federal relief projects as the Historical Records Survey, the Survey of Federal Archives, and the National Youth Adminis-tration project which it has been sponsoring. While such projects are limited in that they are designed primarily for the relief of the needy, they nevertheless make it possible for the Commission to perform various important tasks which otherwise could not be undertaken. Tenth, interest in local history should be promoted and local historical organizations should be encouraged. In the state there should be several times the present number of local historical societies. A history of every county should be published. Better care of local historical records should be encouraged, for it is not practicable to place all these records in a central depository. Finally, the Historical Commission should be ever vigilant to take advantage of every opening to increase its usefulness and to serve the public. It should study and try to meet the needs of the people of North Carolina and of the nation. It should keep informed of what similar organizations elsewhere in the United States and in foreign countries are doing, so as to remain abreast of new developments and methods. The Commission has a fine opportunity to serve. Every possible advantage should be taken of this opportunity. Respectfully submitted, C. C. Crittenden, Raleigh, N. C, July 1, 1938. Secretary. ^ |