Hayes collection, 1694-1928.

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Hayes collection, 1694-1928.

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The Hayes Collection, named after Hayes Plantation, documents the lives of three generations of the Johnston family and two generations of the Wood family whose members owned and operated the plantation. The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, financial materials (account books, receipts, bonds), legal materials (wills, agreements, indentures, deeds of property and land, petitions, judgments, and suits), and photographs that reflect the varied interests and activities of Johnston and Wood family members. These included politics, particularly of the colonial era, the American Revolution, and the early United States; the development and management of several plantations, including Hayes in Chowan County, Caledonia in Halifax County, and Poplar Plains in Pasquotank County, as well as several fisheries, of which Greenfield in Chowan County was most prominent; the slave labor system including the sale, purchase, and hiring-out of slaves, and the use of slaves as overseers; runaway slaves; merchants and mercantilism; banking and finance; trade and shipping; the homefront during the Civil War; the fishing industry during the Civil War; Reconstruction and the transition to a tenant labor and sharecropping system; contemporary family life and social customs; men's education, including higher education at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), the University of Virginia and the University of North Carolina; women's education; health, mental illness, and medical treatments; travel; the economy; and the law, particularly estate administration. Pictures include photographs of portraits of Johnston and Wood family members and others, as well as images of the Hayes plantation house.

ca. 20,000 items (32.0 linear feet)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7090554

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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