Sally Long Jarman (b. 1887) was agenealogist of Halifax County, N.C. The collection includes genealogical data and ancestralpapers gathered by Sally Long Jarman, the bulk of which are typed transcriptions oflegal and Episcopal church records pertaining to the Mason, Gray, Long, Amis, andrelated North Carolina families. Papers of Nathaniel Mason of Summit, N.C., includean order to assemble his militia company to suppress a rumored slave insurrection,1831. Materials related to Mason's son, Thomas Williams Mason (1839-1921), includehis writings while a student at the University of North Carolina in the 1850s,including an essay about his life as a student; four letters he wrote as aConfederate cavalryman on the staff of General Robert Ransom in North Carolina andVirginia, 1862; a letter from his plantation overseer, 1862; and two detailedletters about his military experiences from S. W. Arrington, a soldier in the A.E.F.in England and France, 1918-1919. Among other family papers are a notebook, ca.1814-1815, kept by Richard A. Jones at Princeton College, and love letters,1839-1841 and 1859, from Andrew Joyner to his wife, Sarah Jones Burton Joyner, inWeldon, Halifax County, N.C.
