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Papers (1774-1917) of New Hanover County, NC; Bladen County, NC; Pender County, NC family including correspondence, deeds, grants, records of enslaved persons, financial accounts, legal notices, certificates and receipts.

Papers (1708, 1782-1923, undated) including correspondence, land records, contracts, promissory notes, crop and livestock liens, testimony, mortgages, copies of birth and death records, and miscellaneous.

This collection contains correspondence, financial, and legal records (ca. 1830s-1870s, especially 1850s-1860s) related to Bladen County, North Carolina. Most of material is addressed to William Hendon White, who was Hugh A. Clark's great grandfather. W. H. White was sheriff of Bladen County during the early Reconstruction years (definitely 1866-1867 and perhaps longer) and there are communications with the 2nd Military District for this period. A lot of the correspondence is between W. H. White and his brother George Montgomery White (1828-1860) during the early 1850s while George was working on his 1853 A. B. degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

This collection contains 539 letters (1943-1945) written by Jack Ladd Carr (1924-2010) to his family in Pennsylvania while he was stationed in Fort Jackson (South Carolina) for basic training, in Camp San Luis Obispo and Camp Pendleton in California, and the Pacific Theatre during World War II. Carr joined the U.S. Army in March 1943 and returned to the United States in December of 1945. He was involved in attacks on Anguar Island and took part in Operation Forager.

Papers (1943-1945) of naval reserve officer who commanded the Naval Armed Guard aboard the SS EDWIN L. GODKIN and the SS CHIPPEWA, during World War II, including logbooks, inventories, reports, memorandums, voyage itinerary, orders, photographs, etc.

Memoir (1825-1970) including correspondence, certificates, letters, family records, picture, and a family tree with notes.

Cobb Family genealogical material, 1886-1999 (photocopies); and Worthington - Moye family genealogical material, 1807-1965

Papers (1960-1984) of Democratic political leader and governor of North Carolina, including his 1976 campaign financial records and his 1980 gubernatorial general campaign files.

This genealogy collection includes photocopied details on over 50 families in or around Beaufort County, North Carolina, including, but not limited to, family crests, biographies, Official First Families of North Carolina memberships and applications for membership (OFFNC), wills, land deeds, cemetery location information, family newsletters, pedigree charts, birth and death certificates, marriage licenses/deeds, census data, descendant lists, and photographs. Much information can be found for the Blount, Bowen, Bryan, Clark, Godley, Hunter, Little, and Galloway family lines. Extensive information can be found for the Hardy/Hardee and Ross family lines.

Pitt County, N. C. family photographs preserved by Fannie Elizabeth Edwards and Jennie Barron Potter, reflecting Barron, Wootten, and Edwards families of Simpson community and Ringgold, Edwards, Tucker, Barber, Hardee, and Proctor families and Grimesland. (undated)

This collection contains photographs (mostly snapshots, also tintypes, studio portraits, and 2 photograph albums) mainly related to the Croom and Smith families of Lenoir County and the Elmore and Rouse families of Lenoir and Wayne Cos., North Carolina. Also included are images for people in related families of eastern North Carolina and the Cole, Meeks, Rouse, Infinger, Vallotton, and Thompson families in Georgia. Most images are identified.

Collection (1766-1863, undated) including correspondence, accounts, etc., of the Skinner and Hoskins families, who were prominent families of Eastern North Carolina.