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James Herring Papers
Lenoir County
1764-1908
PC 179.1-3
Mf. P. 156
Physical Description: 455 Items
Estates papers, wills, land grants, deeds correspondence, receipts, slave
records, bonds, election return, advertisements, envelopes, pocket wallet,
memorandums, etc
Acquisition:
Gift of Miss Sybil Hyatt, Kinston, Lenoir County, May 12, 1936. Transferred
11 weaving patterns to Museum of History after records were microfilmed,
January, 1975
Description:
The estate, land, business, and legal papers of Lenoir County in this
collection reflect the involvement of Oliver Herring and his son James in
the settlement of estates of their family and other relatives as administrator
or executor
Oliver Herring, by the time of his death in 1867, had disposed of most of his
considerable property by gifts to his wife Nancy [Leary?], and his children
James, Calvin, Stephen, Curtis, Barbara [Taylor], and Nancy. He was an executor
of the estate of [his father-in-law] Jobe Leary and the large estate of Major
C.R. Loftin – [Loftin family record lists him as “M.C.R. Loftin” – “Major” was
not a title]
Estate Papers – Lenoir County:
M.C.R. Loftin, 1838-1845, 148 items, including bond, estate sale, receipts
for payment of debts due to estate and owed by estate, list of slaves hired
out and payments made for care of “Parrish” Negroes, 1845-1846, with a
number of receipts
Jobe Leary, 1840-1841, 7 items, including sale and settlement of estate,
1840-1841, and bill of complaint of heirs against executors, n.d.
Ann Civil Leary, 1841, 1 item, settlement of estate
John Howard, 1843, 1 item, deposition taken at the home of Oliver Herring
Most of the following estates papers were administered by James Herring in
Lenoir County:
Miss Nancy Hall, 1855-1863, including bond, receipt for coffin, 1856
Rent receipt for Kad Plantation, 1855, to estate of Zack Davis
William Davenport, 1852-1861, 5 items, including receipts, judgements sale
Zach Brown, 1864, 1870, 4 items, including estate sale and widow’s
provision for year
Cornelius Harper, 1864-1880, 19 items, including sale and settlement
Oliver Herring, 1878, including tax receipts and receipt for coffin
Nancy Cunningham, 1879-1886, 8 items including tax receipts for Trent and
Woodington townships, receipt for coffin, receipted bill from nurse
Nancy Herring, 1880-1894, 15 items, including bill of sale for Kent Land
to John B. Parker, medical bills and receipt for burial case, 1889,
foreclosure of mortgage on lands of F.P. Outlaw, Craven County, 1891,
judgment, J.B. Parker and F.P. Outlaw, 1892
Emily Herring, 1897-1901, 6 items including settlement and tax receipts
James Herring, 1894, 1 item, list of debts
Wills – Lenoir County:
William Davenport, 1838
Jobe Leary, 1840
Oliver Herring, 1867/2
Emily Herring, 1898
Land Grant – Craven County:
John (Buck) Tilman, 1764
Land Grants – Dobbs County:
Zenas Parker, 1769
Joshua Nunn, 1775, 1777
Samuel Hearon, 1784
Francis Erwin, 1784
Land Grants – Lenoir County:
Stephen Herring, 1805
Richard Miller, 1805
Deed – Dobbs County:
Martin Caswell to Benjamin Coleman, 1785
Deeds – Lenoir County:
Gabriel Parker to Stephen Hearing, 1799
Richard Miller to Stephen Hearing, 1806
Francis and Alcey Nunn to Oliver Hearing, 1820
William Hearing, 1828
Council and Barbara Gooding to Oliver Hearing, 1828
William J. Hunter to Edwin B. Cox, trustees of Ann Herring, 1857
William Fields, sheriff of Lenoir County, to Oliver Herring, 1859
James and Beedy Deaver to Franklin P. Harper, 1879
Deeds – Craven County:
Julie E. Outlaw to Oliver Herring, 1874
Oliver Herring to Nancy Herring, 1877
John B. Parker to Nancy Herring, 1880/2
John B. and Martha Parker to F.P. Outlaw, 1883
Slave Papers:
1836-1861, 17 items, including receipts for maintenance of several Negro
women and their children, 1846-1847
Bill of sale for $1400 purchase of slave named Brookin, ca. 37-year old
blacksmith, sold by Elizabeth Herring in 1856
Correspondence:
1890-1906, 6 items, including a letter of March 15, 1890, to James Herring
from his brother Calvin from Meadow Creek Ranch, Grant County, New Mexico,
concerning the estate of their sister Nancy
Two letters of 1892 from an attorney in New Bern to A.J. Loftin concerning
the Parker/Outlaw suit
A letter of 1908 is from L.H. Hardy, a minister in Reidsville, to Mrs.
Emma Waller
Business Papers – Consist primarily of receipts:
Oliver Herring, 1844-1876, 22 items (notes, tax receipts)
James Herring, 1856-1894, 70 items, including tax receipts for Woodington
Township, Lenoir County
Miscellaneous receipts, 1810-1892, 27 items
Civil War Papers – 1863-1865, 16 items:
Includes 1864 Confederate bonds for Mrs. E.J. Davenport, Blackledge Harper,
Hardy Brown, John Brown, James Davis, S. Harper, H(?) Cunningham
Receipts and estimate for tax-in-kind for James Herring, December, 1863
Parole pass of Pvt. Jas. Herring, Co. K, 61st N.C.T., Greensboro,
May 1, 1865
“Oath and parole required by G.O. 49 for a Loyal Citizen of the United
States, residing in a State rebellion …” for Oliver Herring, Kinston,
April 5, 1865
Oath of allegiance to the U.S., September 9, 1865, for Oliver Herring
There are also four authorizations by the Wardens of the Poor for allotment
of corn and money to destitute families of soldiers, 1864-1865
Miscellaneous Items:
Election return (rough) for Woodington Township, Lenoir County for the
election of November, 1890
Sheriff’s and commissioner’s papers (2) concerning the cleaning of the canal
on Cherry Tree Creek, 1891
Advertisements for Classical and Agricultural School, Valle Crucis, Ashe
County, 1845 [newspaper fragment]
Brochure for a patent medicine, [Botanic] Blood Balm Company, Atlanta, 1885
Brochure, 3 pp. for Pomona Hill Nurseries, Pomona near Greensboro, 1889,
(planting and maintenance of fruit trees)
Broadside, Pridgen & Cox, Kinston, dry-goods merchant, 1893
Wayne County deed of 1853, W.S.G. Andrews of Wayne County to Caleb Nelson of
Pitt County, $110 for lot #118 corner of William and Elm Streets, Goldsboro,
witnessed by Charles J. Nelson
Agreement signed by C.J. Nelson to build a house on lot #118 with specific
dimensions and stated price; receipts for finished house
Other miscellaneous items are recipes for ink (extract of logwood, bichromate
potash, warm rain water), salve (sassafras, parsley top and root, butter and
mutton suet), medicine (rum, black snake root, apple vinegar, 70-80 large new
nails, sugar, singer), and for washing clothes (sal soda, unslacked lime)
A few scattered notations on chromatic scales, poem (Emma’s Dumb Companion,
1876), and hymns (verses to “Come all who are neulights indeed”)
Envelopes (6) addressed to James Herring Kinston, Mrs. Susan Spiner (?),
Sandyfoundation, Blackledge Harper, Sandy Foundation, and A.J. Loftin,
Kinston
Recorded on microfilm and transferred to the Museum of History were eleven
WEAVING DRAFTS: “The Flowers of Leban (?)” by Elizabeth Nelson,” “Honey Comb
and Satin Strip,” “Huckback and Dimity,” “Squares and Diamonds,” and
“Diamonds” by Mary Nelson, “Dimity” by Fanny Malone of Person County
One draft is unidentified; four are identified only by title: “Draper,”
“Chain and Compass,” “Rattle Snake,” (cross the two middle treddles),
“Blooming Leaf,” and “Draught of Diamonds”
Four leather pocket memorandum books contain little information on the few
surviving pages. In one of the books dated 1787 appear the names of William
Beck(?), Elizabeth Roberts, John Torrans, S. Loftin, Francis Erwin, John
Harper
An isolated receipt was probably in this notebook at one time: “Mr. Fra.
Loftin [two] thousand nine hundred ninety seven pounds of pork towards his
note to me, s/R. Caswell”
A handsomely tooled leather wallet-notebook contains only a receipt from
Oliver Hearing to Job Leary for money belonging to James Hearing,
March 1, 1845
Two smaller notebooks in exceedingly poor condition are dated (1) 1835-1836,
1900-1928 with Silas Turner, Thomas Turner, Oliver Hearing, Emma S. Waller,
DeLeon S. Spaym, Samuel Sutherland listed and (2) 1859, 1865 with W.C.
Turner, A.(?) Rouse, E. Goodman, James Grady. In this latter notebook is a
statement of Mary Parker’s tax listing in 1861 to James Herring, Justice
of the Peace, (land 370, valuation $1315, blacks 5, one buggy $50)
Arrangement of Papers:
P.C. 179.1 Estates Papers
179.2 Wills, Land Grants, Deeds, Slave Papers
179.3 Correspondence, Business Accounts, Miscellaneous
Finding Aids:
Main Entry Card
Geographic Card
Lenoir County
Autograph Cards
None
Subject Cards
BAPTISTS, Freewill
CASWELL, RICHARD
CRAFTS – Weaving
CRAVEN COUNTY, Land Grants and Deeds
EDUCATION, Private
ELECTION RETURN, 1890
HEALTH AND MEDICINE
Patent Medicine, Recipes for salves, etc.
LENOIR COUNTY, Estates Papers, Land Grants, Deeds, Wills
POMONA HILL NURSERIES
RECIPES, Ink, Salve, Tonic, etc.
WAYNE COUNTY, Goldsboro
Compiled Genealogies File
Brown, Zack
Coleman, Benjamin
Davenport, William
Erwin, Francis
Harper, Cornelius
Herring, Samuel
Herring, Oliver and James
Herring, Stephen
Leary, Jobe
Loftin, M.C.R.
Miller, Richard
Nelson, Caleb
Nunn, Joshua
Parker, Zenas
See also: Compiled Genealogies LOFTIN FAMILY
Finding Aid completed 20 January 1975 by Ellen Z. McGrew
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