| Abstract |
Collection includes correspondence, deeds, speeches, petitions, receipts and financial papers, legal and estate papers, relating to the Croom and connected families. Correspondence topics include frontier conditions in Illinois; diseases in Louisiana, visit of President James Buchanan to Chapel Hill; visits to the Siamese twins (Chang and Eng Bunker) in Surry County; life in Greensboro, N.C.; slavery; Hinton Rowan Helper; tenant farming and agricultural problems; rural life in eastern North Carolina; and various Civil War topics, such as camp life, life on the southern homefront, Union raids, deserters, the draft, and trade and commercial ventures during the war. Letters from Governor Jonathan Worth give his confidential views on the constitutional convention in 1867. Genealogical material contains a wide variety of material on the following and other related families: Blount, Bordeaux, Croom, Fearrington, Herring, Holloway, Ireland, Matchett, Mebane, Moore, Moseley, Newton, Pass, Rivenbark, Robinson, Rudder, and Sheppard. |
| Biographical note | The Croom collection is a family-centered collection of documents (1755-1968) relating largely to the Faison area of Duplin County, N. C., with strong secondary document groups in New Hanover and Guilford Counties. The documents involve several related families in several states. The Newton, Pass, and Ireland families of Duplin, New Hanover, and Guilford Counties in North Carolina make up the principal groups. Families related to this nucleus contributed documents from Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Illinois, and other states in addition to various parts of North Carolina. |
