| Physical medium | Paper handwritten printed typed carbon copied. |
| Organization of material | Organized by type of material: correspondence (1940-1945), mortgages (1904-1911), invoices and statements of account (1915-1918), promissory notes, account sheets (1940-1941), safe records or cash books (1951-1954), inventory books (n.d.), day books (1904-1934), ledgers (1902- 1944), charge records (1908-1920), miscellaneous memo pads and catalogues; chronological within type of material. |
| Abstract |
Collection consists of correspondence, mortgages, bank notes, promissory notes, invoices, statements of account, checks, ledgers, daybooks, stock inventory books, cash books and catalogues. Letters of importance include one concerned with tax requirements on cigarettes and several concerned primarily with business transactions. Also included is a report on the major repairs needed for Leggett School in Edgecombe County (1941). The majority of the mortgages were held by Fountain-Fountain against their tenant farmers. The bulk of the financial papers include invoices and statements of account dealing with the years 1915 and 1918. There are several promissory notes held by W. S. Clark and Fountain-Fountain against their tenant farmers for small sums of money. |
| Cite as |
Lawrence-Gulley General Store records, #5, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, East Carolina University. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- 1200 items and 120 volumes Oscar G. Gulley III; Leggett, N.C.; gift; Feb., 1966. |
| Biographical note | The Lawrence-Gulley General Store, located in Leggett, N.C., was owned successively by C. L. Fountain and L. E. Fountain (1903-1908), C. L. Fountain and J. Tommie Lawrence (1909-1915), C. L. Fountain (1915-1918), and J. Tommie Lawrence (1919-1945). |
