Collection: PITTMAN, THOMAS MERRITT, COLLECTION
Warren County
17U7-193U
pf! 123.1-123.27
Physical Description: c. 3,700 items (26 boxes, 1 volume); correspondence,
deeds, land grants, accounts, receipts, wills, notes, bills of sale,
licenses, bonds, warrants, petitions, tax lists, comittees of safety ,
records, Confederate Army records, magazines, pamphlets, leaflets,
clippings, arid miscellaneous papers.
Acquisition: From Biennial Report: 1930-1932 , a large miscellany of
material collected by Judge Thomas M. Pittman of Henderson, chairman
of the North Carolina Historical Commission for many years prior to
his death in 1932. It contains U9U letters, 1775-1901; 227 business
papers, 1755-1812; 82 letters and papers of James Cary, Loyalist,
1776-1807; 50 Bute County records, 1771-79; U Warren County records,
1792-180Ц;
Civil War papers— 1*67 Quartermaster’s Department records,
68 orders, 2 order books, 23 muster rolls, and 22 returns and reports;
3 manuscript notebooks; 3l6 issues of newspapers;
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printed volumes;
UOU pamphlets and broadsides; 2 maps. In the correspondence there are
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letters of Thomas Person, Samuel Johnston, James and. Isaac
Hilliard, Calvin Jones, M.T. Hawkins, John W. Ellis and others. Pre¬
sented by Mrs. Thomas M. Pittman, Raleigh; 1932-193U, addition, l,5l5
letters, business papers, Civil War and miscellaneous records, 2 order
books, 1 tax book, 2h pamphlets, 1771-1918; October 1, 193U, addition,
1:22 pamphlets, 33 broadsides, 2 maps, 1 plan of Rocky Mount, and a
collection of newspapers; November
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1935.- addition, biographical
sketch of Thomas M. Pittman taken from the Encyclopedia of American
Biography, published under the direction of the American Historical
Society, Inc., New York, 1935; January 9, 19b5, addition, three Christmas
cards of World War I period; September 10, 19^5
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addition, certificate
of membership in the American Bible Society,
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invitation to recep¬
tion for President Porfirio Diaz and President William Howard Taft. -
(1909), "My Hooverized XMas Greeting", "Overseas Post Card", (1918);
December 1, 191*8, addition, railroad map (M.C. I47-F).
Description: Papers collected by Thomas Merritt Pittman (1857-1932).
noted lawyer of Charlotte (1878-1885) and Henderson, N.C. (1885-1932).
Judge Pittman (Superior Court judge
1923-192Ц)
was widely known for his
interest in history, serving as president of the State Literary and
Historical Association and as chairman of the North Carolina Historical ,
Commission. For detailed biographical sketch of Pittman see Samuel A.
Ashe, ed., Biographical History of North Carolina, vol. V, pp. 310-316.
This large collection is made up of the papers of the Hilliard,
Williams, Hawkins, and Wortham families of early eastern North Carolina,
and, principally of Bute, Warren, and Nash counties. The papers of
