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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.
Size | 36 items |
Abstract | The collection contains business account books, scrapbooks, notebooks, and other volumes kept by white residents of Granville County and Vance County, N.C., and the surrounding area. The account books of Samuel Duty (fl. 1803-1865) include carpenter, blacksmith, and general merchandise transactions. The scrapbooks and legal notebook of lawyer John Willis Hays (1834-1901), chiefly consist of material dated circa 1887-1900 on notable individuals, including American and English jurists. The school notebooks and papers of physician and public health officer Benjamin K. Hays (fl. 1887-1918) include material related to education, health, history, science, religion, and the status of African Americans in the South. Other account books dating from 1835 to 1883 document transactions for general merchandise, a shoe shop, tobacco sales, estate settlements, blacksmith work, an academy, and other businesses in Oxford and Henderson, N.C. The collection also includes an arithmetic book of William B. Brandon and a family history and genealogical journal with reminiscences by John Willis Hays II, John Willis Hays III, and F.B. Hays. In his narrative writing, John Willis Hays III discusses Reconstruction in Oxford, N.C., including the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the hiring of African American laborers. |
Creator | Hays, John Willis, 1834-1901.
Duty, Samuel, fl. 1803-1865. Hays, Benjamin K., fl. 1887-1918. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Adam Fielding and Jodi Berkowitz, April 2011
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: May 2019
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Samuel Duty (fl. 1803-1865) lived in Vance County, N.C. John Willis Hays (1834-1901) of Oxford, N.C., was a lawyer. Benjamin K. Hays (fl. 1887-1918) of Oxford, N.C., was a physician and public health officer.
Back to TopThe collection contains business account books, scrapbooks, notebooks, and other volumes kept by white residents of Granville County and Vance County, N.C., and the surrounding area. The account books of Samuel Duty (fl. 1803-1865) include carpenter, blacksmith, and general merchandise transactions. The scrapbooks and legal notebook of lawyer John Willis Hays (1834-1901), chiefly consist of material dated circa 1887-1900 on notable individuals, including American and English jurists. The school notebooks and papers of physician and public health officer Benjamin K. Hays (fl. 1887-1918) include material related to education, health, history, science, religion, and the status of African Americans in the South. Other account books dating from 1835 to 1883 document transactions for general merchandise, a shoe shop, tobacco sales, estate settlements, blacksmith work, an academy, and other businesses in Oxford and Henderson, N.C. The collection also includes an arithmetic book of William B. Brandon and a family history and genealogical journal with reminiscences by John Willis Hays II, John Willis Hays III, and F.B. Hays. In his narrative writing, John Willis Hays III discusses Reconstruction in Oxford, N.C., including the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the hiring of African American laborers.
Back to TopThis series is an arithmetic book containing rules and examples.
Folder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
Volume 1: Arithmetic book, 1818 |
Arrangement: chronological.
This series consists of carpenter and general account books. Volume 11 also includes blacksmith accounts and mention of tobacco purchases.
Folder 2 |
Volume 2: Carpenter's account book, 1803-1810 |
Folder 3 |
Volume 3: Account book, October 1829-February 1832 |
Folder 4 |
Volume 4: Account book, October 1829-September 1830 |
Folder 5 |
Volume 5: Account book, 1830-1831 |
Folder 6 |
Volume 6: Account book, 1831-1832 |
Folder 7 |
Volume 7: Account book, 6 February-22 October 1832 |
Folder 8 |
Volume 8: Account book, October 1832-1834 |
Folder 9 |
Volume 9: Account book, November 1833-1835 |
Folder 10 |
Volume 10: Account book, 1835 |
Folder 11 |
Volume 11: Account book, 1848-April 1865Includes tobacco purchased 1852, 1855; blacksmith accounts, April 1865. |
Arrangement: chronological.
This series includes scrapbooks on notable individuals, including American and English jurists, and a legal notebook of John Willis Hays.
Folder 12 |
Volume 12: Legal notebook with clippings and enclosures, circa 1887-1896 |
Folder 13 |
Volume 13: Political clippings scrapbook, 1892 |
Folder 14 |
Volume 14: Clippings scrapbook, circa 1896-1899Clippings on notable Americans, legal cases and questions, Confederate matters, poems, other subjects. |
Folder 15 |
Volume 15: Scrapbook on W. E. Gladstone and others, undated |
Folder 16 |
Volume 16: Scrapbook on American and English jurists, circa 1900 |
Folder 17 |
Volume 17: Clippings scrapbook, 1900Includes a series of clippings titled "Review of the 19th Century." |
Arrangement: chronological.
This series contains notebooks and papers chiefly related to education and health, along with other material relating to history, science, religion, and the status of African Americans in the South.
Arrangement: chronological.
This series includes miscellaneous accounts for general merchandise, a shoe shop, tobacco sales, estate settlements, blacksmith work, an academy, and other business, all of Oxford or Henderson, N.C.
Folder 28 |
Volume 28: Notebook of Thos. H. Willie, treasurer of The Trustees of the Oxford Male Academy, 1835-1839 |
Folder 29 |
Volume 29: Shoemaker account book of L. A. Paschall and Thos. S. Hayes, 1841 |
Folder 30 |
Volume 30: Account book of several estates, 1847-1865Administrator L. A. Paschall's accounts of several estates including Wm. V. Paschall, Benj. Currin, and L. Gilliam. |
Folder 31 |
Volume 31: Account book of L. A. Paschall, 1848-1869Includes accounts of tobacco sales and shoes. |
Folder 32 |
Volume 32: Blacksmith account book of L. Latham, 1857-1858; and scribble book of Frank B. Hays, 1883 |
Folder 33 |
Volume 33: Shoemaker account book of L. A. Paschall, 1857-1871Includes fees received for registering deeds and blacksmith and beef accounts, 1857-1860; general supplies, 1867; St. Stephen's Church, 1870-1871. |
Folder 34 |
Volume 34: General account book of Allen, Clement and Currin, 1873 |
Folder 35 |
Volume 35: Tobacco account book of Allen and Clement, 1874 |
Oversize Volume SV-1174/1 |
Volume 36: Family history and genealogy journalAcquisitions Information: Accession 102124 (Addition of October 2014). This family journal documents genealogical history of the Hays, Harris, and Duty families and includes sections of personal and family history written by John Willis Hays II, John Willis Hays III, and F.B. Hays. John Willis Hays II described life in Oxford, N.C., as a lawyer during the American Civil War. John Willis Hays III discussed his memories as a child during the Civil War and his impressions of Reconstruction. He mentioned the rise and power of Ku Klux Klan, the hiring of African American laborers, and women relatives sent to an asylum. F.B. Hayes discussed family traditions and his ancestor John Harris of Wales. |