| Abstract |
Collection consists of correspondence, legal documents, estates records, accounts, promissory notes, shipping records, receipts, tax lists and an apprenticeship bond. Correspondence in the collection mainly concerns commercial activities. Of particular interest are several letters to Edmund Hoskins of Edenton, N.C., that contain information from commission merchants in Baltimore, Md., and New York on prices of wheat, flour, corn, and naval stores. Another letter requests bills for the purchase of slaves from an Edenton estate. Legal documents include a deposition (May 1761) by Joseph Hewes, signer of the Declaration of Independence; an apprenticeship bond for a tobacconist; and an affidavit that concerns credit problems with the administration of the estate of John B. Blount and mentions James Iredell's role in the affair. Financial records include an audit of Brownrigg estate accounts;a doctor's account that gives the date of treatment, medicine used, patient's name and costs, including the treatment of slaves; and an account book of Edmund Hoskins of Edenton that lists accounts with the Branch Bank of Edenton, doctors' bills, and debts owed to and by the estate of Richard Hoskins. Other materials include one share of stock in Edenton and Plymouth Steamboat Company; lottery tickets and a tuition account for Edenton Academy; deeds; shipping lists; pew rents for St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Edenton; and three seamen's contracts for the brigs, BETSEY and VICTORY, and the schooner JAMES MONROE. Also included are tombstone records of Wingfield Cemetery near Edenton. |
