| Scope and content |
Collection contains materials of the Hodges and Little families of Pitt County, N.C., including correspondence, wills, deeds, receipts, promissory notes, summonses, slave bill of sale, estate inventory, accounts, overseers appointments, and a history of Pactolus, N.C. Letters from relatives who emigrated to Twiggs County, Ga., are primarily concerned with crop prices and land treaties with Native Americans in Georgia. Also includes a letter written by a Confederate soldier of the North Carolina 17th Regiment at Williamston, N.C., which describes the execution of deserters. Legal records include Pitt County wills of George E. Little and W. W. Little. Deeds pertain to property in Pactolus, N.C., belonging to the Little family and to the East Carolina Land and Improvement Company. Also includes promissory notes; summonses; and receipts of schooling, boarding costs, and purchases by George H. Little and Brother of Pactolus from wholesalers that dealt in drugs, footwear, fruit, glassware, crockery, dry goods, and dolls. Also included is a slave bill of sale (1792), account of Robert Hodges's general store purchases from Thad Van Noorden, inventory of Robert Hodges's estate, and a Beaufort County, N.C., marriage license. |
