B.M. [Baker Mabrey] Bass Collection

1817, 1842, 1864, 1950-1990
Manuscript Collection #949
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0.0343 Cubic Feet, 5 items
Preferred Citation
B.M. [Baker Mabrey] Bass Collection (#949), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
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ECU Manuscript Collection
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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

Processing information

Encoded by Mark Custer, December 21, 2007

Descriptions updated by Ashlyn Racine, May 2023

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Key terms
Personal Names
Ely, Joseph--Correspondence
Topical
Bonds--North Carolina--Edgecombe County
Land grants--North Carolina--Bladen County
Slave bills of sale--North Carolina--Edgecombe County
Slave bills of sale--North Carolina--Wayne County
Places
Tarboro (N.C.)--History