Ernest Haywood collection of Haywood family papers, 1752-1967.

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Ernest Haywood collection of Haywood family papers, 1752-1967.

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Correspondence, business papers, legal documents, medical records, account books, pictures, and other items documenting the lives of members of the Haywood family and their relatives, friends, and associates. Many items relate to the career of John Haywood as North Carolina state treasurer, including much material on banking in the state and on state and national politics, 1790s-1820s. Other items relate to Haywood's plantation in Edgecombe County, N.C. There are also letters concerning students and various affairs at the University of North Carolina, 1790s-1880s. Personal correspondence especially documents activities of Eliza Williams Haywood, her mother and sisters, and her children, circa 1800-1830. After 1830, many of the papers relate to the plantation and legal affairs of George Washington Haywood and the plantation affairs of his cousin Alfred Williams. A number of papers and volumes relate to Edmund Burke Haywood, including records he kept of Confederate hospitals that he supervised in the Raleigh area. Other volumes include household accounts, plantation journals and accounts, merchant account books, guest registers for the Yarborough House hotel in Raleigh, recipe books, school notebooks, a volume, 1820s, of reflections on the social role of women and related matters, and "The Religion of the Bible and K W County Compared," by James Reid, 1769.

ca. 10,000 items (24.0 linear feet)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7132419

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Yarborough House (Raleigh, N.C.)

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Raleigh Female Tract Society.

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Haywood family.

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Confederate states of America. Army

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The Savannah Ordnance Depot, Savannah, Georgia, was organized as a field depot during the Civil War. In April 1864, it became the Savannah Arsenal under the supervision of the Chief of Ordnance. From the description of Savannah Ordnance Depot employment roll, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477938 The Confederate States of America Army may have created the position of Purchasing Commissary of Subsistence to oversee the distribution of food and other supplies to the Co...

Haywood, John, 1755-1827

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Treasurer of North Carolina; from Raleigh (Wake Co.), N.C. From the description of Papers, 1800-1865. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19793829 ...

University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Haywood, Ernest, 1860-1946

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The Haywood family of Raleigh, N.C., included such prominent members as John Haywood (1755-1827), state treasurer, 1787-1827, member of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina, 1789-1827, and first mayor of Raleigh; his wife Eliza Williams Haywood (b. 1781), member of the Raleigh Female Tract Society; his son George Washington Haywood (1802-1890), state attorney for Wake County, N.C., and plantation owner in Greene County, Ala.; John's daughter Eliza Eagles Haywood (1798-1877);...