| Abstract |
Collection includes correspondence, land records, financial records, and miscellaneous items belonging to the Foy family. Correspondence topics include opposition to southern secession, the election of Abraham Lincoln, the annual rate for hiring slaves; agricultural activities in Orange County, N.Y.; and claims made by Mrs. Foy against the U.S. government. Deeds and grants reflect the transfer of land in the Topsail Sound area of New Hanover (now Pender) County, including pre-Revolutionary transactions of James Moore, Cornelius Harnett, and John Picket. Other land records include memorandums of survey, property bonds, a lease, land description, and a plat of Cornelius Harnett's Poplar Grove Plantation. Also included are accounts dealing primarily with goods and services purchased and crops, particularly peanuts, sold on the market. Other financial papers consist of promissory notes; receipts, including receipts for the purchase of slaves and for shares in the Wilmington and Topsail Sound Plank Road Company; an 1860 itemized tax receipt; and a medical receipt for the attendance of slaves. Miscellaneous items include an account book; writ for seizure of property; a deed of sale for two slaves; an inventory of the Henry Rhodes estate; minutes of a meeting held at Cats [Scotts] Hill Meeting House; an oath of allegiance to U.S. government; claims application against U.S. government for property taken by the Union Army; and a speech on temperance. |
| Access restriction | Joyner- No access restrictions. |
| Cite as |
Robert Lee Foy Collection (#32), Special Collections Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
| Terms of use | Joyner- 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 Mr. Robert Lee Foy. |
| Biographical note | The Foy family settled in southeastern North Carolina prior to the American Revolution, and James Foy, Jr., purchased Poplar Grove Plantation at Scott's Hill in 1795. Poplar Grove was owned originally by Cornelius Harnett. The Foy home was built by Joseph Montford Foy around 1850. |
