Papers of the Tull family of Lenoir County, N.C., chiefly those of John Tull, and dating for the most part from 1858-1867 before he sold his farm just outside Kinston and purchased a new one at Tower Hill. Included are four paper booklets recording the births of the Tull slaves from 1795 to 1860; Tull farm and dairy accounts (1878-1896); general merchandise acounts both in book form and in paper note form (1858-1867 and 1878-1879); marriage contract (1853); deeds and land records (1869-1895); estates (Dr. Chauncey Graham, John M. McKinney, and Henry Tull); will of John M. McKinney (1852); brickyard, cordwood, sawmill, and lumberyard, and smith shop accounts (1857-1880); accounts payable and accounts receivable; promissory notes; tax receipts; hire of Tull freedmen (1865-1867); cotton papers; insurance documents; medical bills payable including treatment of slaves; and other papers.
