| Scope and content |
Papers (1880-1946) including correspondence, legal and financial papers, newspapers, articles on local business, hotels, banks, and miscellaneous. The George W. McNeill correspondence has a substantial amount of material concerning the Democratic Party in the state and in Moore County. Correspondence concerning McNeill's land activities and real estate concerns span the length of his correspondence. The rest of the correspondence pertains to McNeill's law cases and includes guardianships, collection of debts, settlement of estates, sale and purchase of tracts of lands, deeds, moonshining, claims, murder, transfers of property, debts and mortgages, and the foreclosure on McNeill's land in 1934-1935. |
| Access restriction | No access restrictions. |
| Cite as |
George W. McNeill Papers (#492), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
| Terms of use | Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Gift of Miss Meade Seawell. |
| Biographical note | A native of Carthage, N.C., George W. McNeill, the son of Alexander Hamilton McNeill, was a lawyer and Moore County Clerk of Superior Court. He was related by marriage to the Blue family and the Seawell family. |
