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CoUection: GRADY, BENJAMIN, COLLECT IDN
Sampson County, North Carolina
1778-1853
Physical Description: Currency notes, photostats of marriage contract,
quit rent, Revolutionary
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list, inventory, wills, and chart, and
typescript letter* 30 items*
Acquisition: The gift
Washington, D. C,
April 22, 1953; May
of Benjamin Grady,
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1957; November 17, 1958; June 1, 1955*
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Description: The currency notes (1776-1780) are in denominations of
$1.00, $2.50, $3.00, $10.00, $20.00, $25.00, $50.00, and $100.00.
The miscellaneous items include photostatic copies of a quit rent
for John Graddy signed by R. Caswell (1756); a marriage contract
between George Komegay and Manning Wiggins of Wayne County (1802);
a list of Lieutenant Wilkinson1 s company, 10th Regiment (1782); an
inventory of the property of John Lyon Sampson, Sampson County (1789);
and a chart of the "Great Seals of the United States and Territories."
Typescript of a letter from B. F. Grady, Clinton, North Carolina, to
Captain Miles 0. Sherrill, State Librarian, Raleigh, November
Щ,
1909,
relates evidence of Lincoln's contempt for abolitionists and his reasons
for issuing the Emancipation Proclamation*
Included in the collection are photostats of an index
to Craven County, Book
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Deeds and Wills, and of a number of wills*
The wills ares Michael King, Cumberland County, November 27, 1783;
John Sampson, Duplin County, October 27 , 1783; James Sampson, Sampson
County, 1787; Penelope Clinton, Lumberton, Robescn County, August 28,
l8lis; William King, Sr., Sampson County, August 28,. 1816; Jane
Sampson, 1817; and William R. King, January 1, 1853* (William R. King
was a Native of North Carolina who moved to Alabama and, elected
United States Senator, served as president pro tempore of the Senate
fran 1836 to
18Ц1,
was minister to France, 18U*-18U6; returned to the
Senate, 18R8; and was Vice President, 1852.)
