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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Gray Family Papers, #1681, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift of Mrs. Moses B. Gillam of Windsor, N.C., February 1950 and October 1956.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, April 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

Updated January 2021

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Account books.
• Albemarle Sound (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Bingham School (Orange County, N.C.)--Students.
• Boston (Mass.)--Description and travel.
• Boykin, William B.
• Capehart, W. R. (William Rhodes), 1836-1907.
• Education--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Fisheries--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Gilliam, Henry A., 1819-1891.
• Gray family.
• Gray, George, fl. 1846-1879.
• Gray, John.
• Gray, Stevens.
• Gray, William Lee, fl. 1819-1822.
• Gray, William.
• Lawyers--North Carolina--History--18th century.
• Lawyers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Marianna (Fla.)--History--19th century.
• McKenzie, John, fl. 1765-1766.
• Merchants--North Carolina--History--18th century.
• Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Plantations--Florida--Jackson County.
• Roulhac, J. B. G. (Joseph Blount Gregoire), 1795-1856.
• Roulhac, John Gray, 1797-1858.
• Shingle industry--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Wesleyan Female College (Murfreesboro, N.C.)--Students.
• Windsor (N.C.)--Commerce.
• Windsor (N.C.)--History.
• Windsor (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Women--Education (Higher)--North Carolina--History--19th century.

Gray family members include George Gray, merchant of Windsor, Bertie County, N.C.; John Gray, William Gray, Stevens Gray, and William Lee Gray, lawyers and merchants in eastern North Carolina; and John McKenzie, son of Janet (Gray) McKenzie.

The collection is primarily business and personal correspondence, bills, and accounts, 1846-1879, of George Gray, mainly concerning shingle shipments, his cotton plantation near Marianna, Fla., Albemarle Sound fisheries (chiefly 1870s), and the education of his children at the Bingham School, Wesleyan Female College, and elsewhere. Correspondents include William Rhodes Capehart, Joseph B. Roulhac, William B. Boykin, Henry A. Gilliam, and John Roulhac. Also included are legal papers and business letters, 1722-1846, of John Gray, William Gray, Stevens Gray, George Gray, and William Lee Gray. Volumes include personal and merchants' accounts, 1816-1819, 1837-1847, and 1854-1857, and also notes and accounts by John McKenzie for a trip from North Carolina to Boston, 1765-1766. There are also some early maps of the town of Windsor, N.C.