Marion Eaton Newsom Collection

1821-1994; Bulk, 1860s-1910s
Manuscript Collection #1413
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Newsom, Marion Eaton
Physical description
3.55 Cubic Feet, 6 document cases, 1 half document case, 1 flat box, and 1 oversize folder, consisting of deeds and surveys, financial records, business records, legal records, correspondence, photographs, memoir, histories, and newspaper clippings
Preferred Citation
Marion Eaton Newsom Collection (#1413), 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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This collection contains documents (1821-1994, bulk 1860s-1910s) related to the Newsom family, especially Marion Eaton Newsom, of Littleton, Warren and Halifax Counties, North Carolina. Included are correspondence, land records, legal records, financial papers, and a family history written by Marion E. Newsom (1909, addendum 1911) about the Newsom and Nicholson families. Some material also relates to the Whitaker and Heptinstall families. A large part of this collection also documents the history of Littleton and institutions there such as schools, churches, and Littleton Female College.

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September 30, 2022, (unprocessed), 3.55 cubic feet; This collection contains documents (1821-1994, bulk 1860s-1910s) related to the Newsom family, especially Marion Eaton Newsom, of Littleton, Warren and Halifax Counties, North Carolina. Included are correspondence, land records, legal records, financial papers, and a family history written by Marion E. Newsom (1909, addendum 1911) about the Newsom and Nicholson families. Some material also relates to the Whitaker and Heptinstall families. A large part of this collection also documents the history of Littleton and institutions there such as schools, churches, and Littleton Female College. Gift of Dorothy Battle Rankin Robinson

Source of acquisition

Gift of Dorothy Battle Rankin Robinson

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Container List completed September 2022 by Lindsey Grider.

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Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.

Container list
Box 1 Folder a Receipts, Insurance Policies, 1881-1909
Box 1 Folder b Taxes, Fees, Promissory Notes, 1879-July 1915
Box 1 Folder c Chattel Mortgages, Liens, Other Legal Matters, 1898-1918
Box 1 Folder d Will of Phibby Johnston, 1907
Box 1 Folder e Financial Papers, 1881-1908
Box 1 Folder f Deeds and Plot Surveys, 1821-1907
Box 1 Folder g Newsom Family Legal Matters, 1905-1911
Box 2 Folder a Heptinstall Papers, 1891-1911
Box 2 Folder b Deeds to Heptinstall,1860, 1889
Box 2 Folder c Heptinstall (Promissory Notes), 1851-1887
Box 2 Folder d Deeds, 1840s
Box 2 Folder e Deeds, 1850s [1859 Deed also lists enslaved persons]
Box 2 Folder f Deeds, 1860s
Box 2 Folder g Deeds, 1870s
Box 2 Folder h Deeds, 1880s
Box 2 Folder i Deeds, 1890s
Box 2 Folder j Deeds and Plot Surveys 1901, undated
Box 3 Folder a Personal Items
Box 3 Folder b Deed, Promissory Notes, Mortgage, 1880-1917
Box 3 Folder c Promissory Notes, 1860s
Box 3 Folder d Hire of Enslaved Persons, 01/1853, 12/1859(2), 01/1865
Box 3 Folder e Map of Bute County, 1764-1779 (modern print)
Box 3 Folder f Religious Tracts From Newson/ Whitaker Papers
Box 3 Folder g Poems
Box 3 Folder h Recipes
Box 3 Folder i Dogs (Pedigrees)
Box 3 Folder j Holtzclaw Articles on Early Newsom History
Box 3 Folder k Household Bills from Blanche Newsom/Whitaker Home, 1911-1955
Box 3 Folder l From Newsom/Whitaker Home -Catalogs and Ads (not about Littleton)
Box 3 Folder m Cookbook from Newsom/Whitaker Home
Box 4 Folder a Liens and Chattel Mortgages, 1885-1913
Box 4 Folder b Liens and Chattel Mortgages, 1900-1910
Box 4 Folder c Receipts and Promissory Notes
Box 4 Folder d Litigation, 1885-1916
Box 4 Folder e Deeds, 1899,1905
Box 4 Folder f Newsom Financial Records, 1896-1903
Box 4 Folder g Promissory Notes, 1860s
Box 4 Folder h Liens, Judgments, Promissory Notes, 1870s
Box 4 Folder i Liens, Judgments, Promissory Notes, 1880s
Box 4 Folder j Liens, Judgments, Promissory Notes, Mortgages, 1880s
Box 4 Folder k Liens Mortgages, 1890s
Box 4 Folder l Liens, Judgments, Promissory Notes, 1890s
Box 4 Folder m Liens, Mortgages, Tax Receipts, 1900-1910
Box 4 Folder n Liens, Mortgages, Summons, 1900-1910
Box 4 Folder o Liens, Mortgages, Summons, 1900-1910
Box 4 Folder p Accounts and Receipts, 1908-1909
Box 4 Folder q Accounts and Receipts, 1910
Box 4 Folder r Accounts and Receipts, 1911
Box 4 Folder s Accounts and Receipts, 1912
Box 4 Folder t Accounts and Receipts, 1913
Box 4 Folder u Accounts and Receipts, 1914-1918
Box 4 Folder v Financial Related Correspondence, 1906-1916
Box 4 Folder w List of Members of Epworth Church, 1915
Box 5 Folder a Legal Matters between Newsom and Francis M. Garrett and Paul Garrett, also mentions of Littleton Female College debt
Box 5 Folder b Legal Matters between Newsoms and Francis M. Garrett and Paul Garrett, also mentions college debt notes owed
Box 5 Folder c Legal Matters between Newsoms and Francis M. Garrett and Paul Garrett, also mentions mortgage on Littleton Female College
Box 5 Folder d Board of Trustees of Littleton Graded School District, Act to found the Graded School, Expenses, 1905-1911
Box 5 Folder e Littleton High School, 1891-1895
Box 5 Folder f Littleton Female College, 1905, 1907
Box 5 Folder g Littleton Baptist Church, Littleton, N.C
Box 5 Folder h Presbyterian Church-Littleton, N.C
Box 5 Folder i Photograph of train derailment. Littleton, N.C (?)
Box 5 Folder j Items Related to Businesses and Events, Littleton, N.C
Box 5 Folder k Items Related to Businesses and Events, Littleton, N.C
Box 5 Folder l Littleton Colored Public School (or Littleton Supplementary Free School), 1908-1911
Box 5 Folder m Littleton Public Graded School, 1905-1908
Box 5 Folder n Littleton Public Graded School, 1909-1911
Box 5 Folder o Methodist Churches-Littleton N.C. area
Box 5 Folder p Littleton Methodist Church, Littleton, N.C
Box 5 Folder q Calvary Methodist Church, Littleton, N.C
Box 5 Folder r Corinth Methodist Church, Littleton N.C.
Box 6 Folder a Becky Leach Dozier
Box 6 Folder b Panacea Springs Resort
Box 6 Folder c Whitakers Chapel (Enfield, N.C.)
Box 6 Folder d Dallas W. Newsom Reminiscences of Life, Littleton, N.C
Box 6 Folder e Newspaper Clippings about Littleton, N.C, area
Box 6 Folder f Littleton, N.C-Business Related Publications
Box 6 Folder g Littleton, N.C-Business Related Publications
Box 6 Folder h Photograph of Bagley's Academy (also students), Littleton, N.C.; Littleton N.C. cardboard fan
Box 6 Folder i Land Surveys, 1889-1909
Box 6 Folder j Legal and financial Documents, 1869-1912
Box 6 Folder k Political/Government Papers from Newsom/Whitaker Papers from Littleton, N.C
Box 6 Folder l Deeds, July 1880-Feb 1883
Box 6 Folder m Deeds, Dec 24th 1886-Dec 1887
Box 6 Folder n Deeds, March 20th 1888-Dec 10th 1888
Box 6 Folder o Deeds, March 28th 1889- Aug 7th 1889
Box 6 Folder p Deeds, Feb 8th 1890-Oct 20th 1890
Box 6 Folder q Deeds, Jan 10th 1891-1893
Box 6 Folder r Deeds, 1897
Box 6 Folder s Deeds, Jan 5th 1898- Oct 20th 1899
Box 6 Folder t Deeds, March 23rd 1901-March 14th, 1913
Box 6 Folder u Chattel Mortgages, March 14th 1883- Oct 15th 1899
Box 6 Folder v Chattel Mortgages, Feb 28th 1900- June 1st 1907
Box 6 Folder w Catalogs
Box 7 Folder a First in Freedom Playbook, 1970's
Box 7 Folder b History of the Newsom Family written by Marion Eaton Newsom (Newsoms of Halifax Co. and Nicholsons of Warren Co., N.C.). Books 1 and 2 (1909) and addenda (1911). Transcription (2022) by Battle Rankin Robinson
Box 7 Folder c History of The Newsom Family by Marion Eaton Newsom (First Draft), 1909. Transcription (2022) by Battle Rankin Robinson
Box 7 Folder d Other Documents by Marion Eaton Newsom
Oversize Folder os1 1878 Mortgage deed to Kader Biggs and Co. of Norfolk Va.; "Read, Think and Buy!" handout advertising land for sale to African Americans in Print (Halifax Co.) in 1916 by Summit Land Improvement Co.; 1872 survey map of land near Littleton Depot by Oscar Harris for Col. Douglass; The Tidewater News (July 4, 1930) of Franklin in Southampton Co., Va.; and photograph of a steam train derailment possibly in Littleton, North Carolina, area (photograph found in the Marion Eaton Newsom house)