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Collection Number: 04902-z

Collection Title: Neuse River Ferry Company Records, 1827-1891

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Size About 40 items
Abstract Financial and legal records of the Neuse River Ferry Company include survey contracts, indenture contracts, loan contracts, promissory notes, company share certificates, sales receipts for materials, deeds, and tax receipts. There are also will and related probate materials of Malachi Potter, the original owner of the company, and later deeds of his son, William Potter. There is also one unidentified tintype photograph.
Creator Neuse River Ferry Company.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Neuse River Ferry Company Records #4902-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Purchased from J. Douglas Mattox of Raleigh, N. C. on 20 November 1997 (Acc. 97152).
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.
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Processed by: Adera Scheinker, November 1997

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

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Financial and legal records of the Neuse River Ferry Company include survey contracts, indenture contracts, loan contracts, promissory notes, company share certificates, sales receipts for materials, deeds, and tax receipts. There are also will and related probate materials of Malachi Potter, the original owner of the company, and later deeds of his son, William Potter. There is also one unidentified tintype photograph.

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Contents list

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Folder 1

Financial and legal materials

Special Format Image SF-P-4902/1

Unidentified tintype photograph

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