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September 30, 2025 (unprocessed), 1 cubic foot; Material (1844-1891) including correspondence, account books, speeches, pamphlets, receipts, legal papers, and publications concerning William Robinson (an Irish immigrant) who was a newspaper publisher, town commissioner and mayor of Goldsboro, Wayne County, North Carolina, and his son Dr. Marius Emmet Robinson who practiced in Goldsboro, operated a drugstore with his brother, and was the first chief of staff of Goldsboro's first hospital. Transferred from Johnston County NC Heritage Center.
Source of acquisition
Transferred from Johnston County NC Heritage Center
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Container list
Box 1 Folder a
Correspondence
, 1850-1854
Box 1 Folder b
Correspondence, 1855
Box 1 Folder c
Correspondence, 1856-1860
Box 1 Folder d
Correspondence, 1861-1891, undated
Box 1 Folder e
Legal Documents [also includes 3 documents concerning the hiring of enslaved persons], 1859-1878, undated
Box 1 Folder f
Class and Conduct Reports for a Student at West Point Military Academy [also September 26, 1854 letter], 1854, 1857
Box 1 Folder g
Document concerning the Appointment of a Surgeon for 5th Regiment of NC Volunteers, 1861
Box 1 Folder h
Documents related to Dr. M. Emmet Robinson's Medical Career, 1868-1890
Box 1 Folder i
Talk given to Eastern Medical Association of North Carolina, undated.
Box 1 Folder j
Accounts receipts for Dr. M. Emmet Robinson's patients, 1872-1876, 1883
Box 1 Folder k
Account book for Dr. M. Emmet Robinson's patients, 1870-1873
Box 1 Folder l
Treasurer and Clerk Reports for Accounts of the Town of Goldsboro, North Carolina, 1870-1871
Box 1 Folder m
Friends of Temperance: Reports from Goldsboro's Council No. 43; Appointment of District Vice President, 1869-1870
Box 1 Folder n
Invitations related to Dr. M. Emmet Robinson, 1871-1886, undated
Box 1 Folder o
Obituaries and funeral announcements, ca. 1844-1877
Box 1 Folder p
Photographs and negatives
Box 1 Folder q
Political Ephemera, 1884, undated
Box 1 Folder r
Accounts (1851-1855) relating to building, furnishing, and advertising for Wayne Institute and Normal College. Documents (1864, 1875, 1879) related to other private schools
Box 1 Folder s
Summonses, 1848-1867
Box 1 Folder t
Promissory Notes, 1845-1873
Box 1 Folder u
Receipts (most relate to William Robinson), 1845-1881
Box 1 Folder v
Accounts (most relate to William Robinson), 1847-1869
Box 1 Folder w
Speech, undated (perhaps 1850s) and author unknown. Delivered to North Carolinians and topic is patriotic and pleads to keep the Union. Massachusetts orator Edward Everett is quoted.
Box 1 Folder x
Speech, undated (perhaps 1850s) and author unknown. The speech is being delivered to a Warsaw, Duplin County, North Carolina, audience on the occasion of the dedication of a girls educational institution. Topics are the importance of education, religion, and women.
Box 1 Folder y
Speeches by unknown authors and undated. Topics are how bad Reconstruction is, especially in South Carolina; and the importance of using your God-given skills.
Box 2 Folder a
Account book belonging to William Robinson containing listing of court dockets (1859-1861) for Lenoir, Duplin, and Wayne Counties, North Carolina, and financial accounts (1858, 1868-1869)
Box 2 Folder b
By-laws (1869) for Neuse Lodge, No. 6, Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.), Goldsboro, North Carolina; the 1848 Digest of the Laws of I.O.O.F. owned by the Neuse Lodge, No. 6; and the By-Laws (1883) of Ruffin Lodge, No. 6, Knights of Pythias, Goldsboro, North Carolina
Box 2 Folder c
Manual of Subordinate Granges of the Patrons of Husbandry (1873) belonging to Union Grange, No. 199, Jones County, North Carolina; and a homemade booklet containing printed pages written in an unknown code (signature inside says Wm. Murdoch, Salisbury).
Box 2 Folder d
Advertising circulars (farming; medicinal); Webb's Tours advertising Booklet; Expositions Advertising , 1872-1885, undated
Box 2 Folder e
School cypher pages (1800s), poetry, ticket for passage on Steamer Isabel, and other items