Papers (1741-1879) of the Sutton, Parks, Uzzell, and Woods families of Bucklesberry, Lenoir County, NC, consisting of deeds, accounts, genealogical sheets, Bible records, receipts, promissory notes, land surveys and miscellaneous.
Bible records and genealogical sheets in this collection refer to the Sutton, Parks, Uzzell, and Woods families of Bucklesberry in Lenoir Co., N.C. Also mentioned the births of enslaved persons as early as 1776.
Five deeds (1791-1870) in Bucklesberry, Lenoir County, N.C. pertain primarily to property belonging to the Sutton Family. The land surveys date to the mid and late 1700's and pertain to Giles and Sutton property in Craven and Dobbs counties.
The receipts pertain to taxes, store accounts, and tuition payments. The store receipts (late 1700's, 1806-1810, 1867-1869, 1879) mention such items as port, corn, salt, cheese, cider, sugar, cloth, shoes, coats, tobacco, bridles, handkerchiefs, gloves, scissors, potatoes, molasses, cotton, shot, and paper. The tax receipts cover the years 1779 to 1814 and the 1860's and the tuition payments to private schools in Lenoir County date to the 1860's, and the tuition payments to private schools in Lenoir County date to the 1860's and 1870's. In some cases crops were used instead of money for payments, and pounds and shillings were still used until 1810.
Among the miscellaneous items are several pages documenting the weight and price of hogs (1818) slaughtered, and an indenture of apprenticeship (1866) of an eleven year old orphan named Samuel Sutton. Also included are handwritten directions for taking medicine and a note written in 1780 which mentions the possibility of the writer getting drafted.
Loaned by Mr. Clellan Sutton
Processed by M. Elmore, January 1977
Encoded by Apex Data Services
Descriptions updated by Ashlyn Racine, May 2023
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