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CoUection: CARMAN, BESSIE C., COLLECTION | P.CJ^®5 _
New Beni, North Carolina
17U6-1898; 1931 *
Physical Description: Land patent, deeds, affidavit, statements,
surveys, letters, notebooks. 31 items.
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Acquisition: Loan from Mrs. Bessie C. Carman, Chicago, Illinois and
New Bern, North Carolina. 1
February 29, 19U8. (Letter, 1796, Irish deed, age book, and affidavit.)
July 29, 1957. (15 Beaufort County deeds, 12 miscellaneous family records.)
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Description: Eleven deeds trace land in Beaufort County on the south side .
of the Pamlico River, near Bath, from an original grant in 1730 to John
Tripp, through numerous owners, to Jesse Hartfield, by court sale in
i860, and from Jesse to James F. Hartfield, in 1868. Other deeds, surveys,
" affidavits, and statements relate to J. F. Hartfield’ s property known as
Broak Neck in Onslow County (I878-I897), and two surveys of land owned
by J. F. Hartfield (1898). |
Miscellaneous statements give the descendants of M. C. and
Mary Ann (Ellis) Stephens and of Jesse and Julia Taylor Hartsfield (18i|2).
An "age book" of Bishop E. Dudley lists his and Elizabeth (Jones) Dudley's
descendants; it also includes a list of Negroes - their birth and death
dates (1820-1858). Another notebook enumerates the birth and death dates
of Elizabeth A., Sarah S., Mrs. Eliza A. (wife of Jesse), and Jesse
Hartfield. I
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There are three letters in the collection. The earliest
(1756) from Francis Stringer, Annagh, Ireland, to Samuel Simpson,
Greenville, North Carolina, tells of his father's provision for
Stringer' s wife Anne of a hundred pounds a year in the event her
husband died- first. Copy of a deed from the Registry of Deeds,
Ireland, gives the details. A letter from J. F. (?) Hartfield,
April 2k,
18Ц1,
Lenoir County, to John Glasgow, requests collection
of accounts for tuition of children from several families. The third
letter is from Annie E. Hartfield, New Garden, North Carolina,
February 23, 1873, to her brother James F. Hartfield, Catherine Lake,
Onslow County, North Carolina.
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