Title: Roach Family Papers: legal records

Identifier: 0346-b1-fd   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/35854)

Description: Folder of legal records of the Roach family, a prominent family in Craven County, N.C., during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Of interest in the legal papers are articles of agreement (1823) to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic; a court order (1830) investigating road repair in Craven County; a deposition (1814) that comments on a Henry Tison's service in the North Carolina Continental Line; and a certification (1864) that Charles Roach was unfit for military duty for medical reasons. Other records relate to notes of debt, powers of attorney, an agricultural lien, and orders to appear in court.