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Custodial History
October 8, 2003 (unprocessed) 2 items, 0.003 cubic feet; Edgecomb [Edgecombe] County Bond First Series, No. 7 / $500 Due April 1st 1874, payable to John H. Daniel, Executed April 1, 1864, Signed Henry T. Clark, Chairman, Edgecomb County Court; Countersigned, Irwin Thigpen, Clerk of County Court; Letter from Joseph Ely, [William] MacRae's Brigade, to My Dear Father, dated February 19, 1865. Donor: William M. Bass
October 8, 2003 (unprocessed addition 1) 1 item, 0.03 cubic feet; Mabrey Bass's Tarboro from 1950 to 1990, Including Twenty-Two Articles of Historical Interest by Dr. Spencer P. Bass, edited by Roland Taylor (Fuquay-varina, NC: Research Triangle Publishing, Inc., ©1997 by William M. Bass). ISBN 1-884570-77-1. Donor: William M. Bass
October 21, 2003 (unprocessed addition 2) 1 item, 0.0003 cubic feet; Grant (12/9/1843) for the Pait [Pate] land [A. E. Pait and& wife Sarah $30.00] entered 11/7/1842, Bladen County, NC. Signed by Governor John M. Morehead. Witnessed by William Call, Secretary. Donor: William M. Bass
August 12, 2005 (unprocessed addition 3) 1 item, 0.001 cubic feet; Bill of sale and receipt for the transfer and delivery of Channey, a Black woman enslaved, by her previous enslaver William Barden of Wayne County, NC to her new enslaver Polly Ruffin of Edgecombe County, NC (12/31/1817), Recorded Book No. 16, page 191. Document torn and repaired with pressure sensitive tape. Donor: William M. Bass
Source of acquisition
Gift of William M. Bass
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Encoded by Mark Custer, December 21, 2007
Descriptions updated by Ashlyn Racine, May 2023
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