Camilla C. Rodman-William B. Rodman Papers. Clipping found in Kentucky Advocate in Danville, Kentucky on Aug 14, 1907. This collection consists of a letter, a warrant, and an invitation created by William Blount while he was serving as the Governor of the Territory South of the River Ohio. Edwin Godwin Reade... Life and Character of Hon. The letterpress books in particular should be kept in mind as they contain Rodman's responses to the letters in the other six series. Originally the lands were part of the John Gray Blount and John Hall patents. Papers: In William Blount Papers, 1783-1823, 80 items. (1952-1982) Ursula Loy and Pauline Worthy, eds., Washington and the Pamlico (1976) William S. Powell, ed., Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, I, ⦠150 items; Genealogy, correspondence, Bible records, land abstracts, and miscellany. As a National Guard officer he rose in rank to colonel of the First North Carolina Regiment. Pencil sketches of William B. Rodman include William Blount Rodman II as a boy at "Bleak House," Greensboro (1865), a sketch of a dog made in Petersburg, Virginia (Mar. Legislative issues pertain to the oyster law, railroad legislation, a graded school bill, and a board of school directors. November 14, 2012, (unprocessed addition 6), 1 item, 0.001 cubic feet; Addition contains a 5" x 7" sepia-toned photoprint (copy) of William B. Rodman, Sr. Donor: Mrs. Edith Rodman. Washington, N.C., is a recurrent topic of discussion as is Beaufort County and to a lesser extent, the towns of Chocowinity and Bath. Another related topic involves immigration into North Carolina. Sherman's march through the South receives much comment. Information about railroads is noted particularly in the Rodman III correspondence with references to the activities of the Norfolk Southern Railroad (1912-1943). 1862); ferries and toll bridges (Washington Toll Bridge Company vs. Beaufort County, 1875-1891); injury to livestock (McDonald vs. the Old Dominion Steamship Company, 1878); and cemeteries (Saint Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church vs. the town of Washington, North Carolina, 1890). During the Revolutionary War, he served as a paymaster for the Continental Army's troops in the North Carolina Line. Navigation course notes, payrolls, expenditures, and personnel lists add information. Much of the early correspondence is from Rodman II to his son or to others concerning family lands and boundaries. Miscellaneous files contain speeches including a Reconstruction era speech (Oct., 1865) of General C. C. Andrews, "Suffrage the Armor of Liberty" ; a William Rodman speech to the constitutional convention of 1868 outlining his conversion from secession Democrat to Republican Party supporter; a speech to the N.C. House (1870) presenting recommendations of the Committee to Devise a Code of Civil Procedures; a printed editorial announcing Rodman's willingness to attend the constitutional convention of 1875; and a speech by Rodman (1875) sharply criticizing Vance, urging the ratification of the constitution, and defending the Republican Party (1868). George A. Blount's grandfather George Mathias Blount, was from a large North Carolina family. William Blount Rodman I files (1825-1893, undated) span a diverse multitude of topics. William Blount High School 219 County Farm Road Maryville, TN 37801 (865) 984-5500 Correspondence (1893-1899) concerns patronage; fusion activities; impact of oyster controversy in Pasquotank County; black opposition to Harry Skinner and the Republican-Populist fusion; campaigns against Skinner; school taxation issue; Rodman's views of politics during the 1880s and 1890s; plan of Furnifold M. Simmons to create white supremacy organizations throughout North Carolina; and support for Charles B. Aycock for governor. governor_william_blount_papers_1790-1796.pdf The majority of Territorial Governor William Blount's correspondence deals with the establishment of peace along a frontier with the Indians to the extent that overland access between the two parts if the Territory was through Indian country, over which the Indians at times exacted tribute for passage. A summons docket and civil issue docket for cases in Beaufort County are also included (1904). Records pertain to land held by John Gray and Reading Blount and members of the Gurganus, Riddick, and Windley families, and to a dispute between the John L. Roper Lumber Company and the heirs of William B. Rodman. Letters concern speculative enterprises in which John Gray Blount and other entrepreneurs were involved, including the capture of the LIBERTY by the brig EDWARD (Nov. 1783). Letters from Governor Richard Caswell concern shipment of personal merchandise through Blount (1784), arrangement of details for his gubernatorial installation (April 1785), the state debt to Martinique, and efforts to raise funds for settling the debt (1785, 1789). A daily record of tenant work is often included for the years after 1890. Artillery, and Baker's Cavalry. Correspondence pertains to such North Carolina land development companies as the Pender and Onslow Land and Improvement Company, the Newbern Land Company, the Southern Land and Immigration Company, the Carolina Land and Improvement Company, the Washington Investment Company, and the Beaufort Land Company. Raleigh, N.C.: State Department of Archives and History, 1952-1965. The collection includes papers of Thomas Blount. Rodman regularly instructs his wife in the care, discipline, and employment of their slaves. William Blount died on March 21, 1800 in Knoxville, Tennessee and was buried in the First Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing. Correspondence with Lindsay Warren (1943) concerns the rumor of a feud they were supposed to be having. Correspondence from Associate Justice Susie Sharp (1965-1976) mentions activities of the court after he had retired. 250 items, 0.50 cubic feet; Papers (1767-1909) related to the land holdings of William B. Rodman, Sr. and his descendants in Beaufort County, North Carolina, particularly that associated with the family's Urwald Plantation, the "Brooks Place," and on Pungo Creek: land grants, deeds, plats, maps depicting land cultivated by tenants, estate records, financial accounts, memoranda books, lease agreements, court records, and legal briefs. Other comments by William Blount include rumors of commercial advantages offered by the Spanish representative for the abandonment of U.S. claims to Mississippi River navigation rights (Nov. 1785); opinions of William Polk (Oct. 1785); rumors of paper money problems and court closings in Camden and Charleston, South Carolina (Sept. 1785); and the ownership by William Campbell and others of lots in Wilmington, N.C. Other Blount letters comment on the Philadelphia Association (1787); Tom Blount's romantic activities (1788) and his attendance at Warren Academy [?] Rodman discusses military activity around Gordonsville, Virginia; the battle of Chickamauga and the difficulty in dislodging Rosecrans (Sept. 1863); the consequences of the defeat of Bragg (Nov. 1863); skirmishes near Mechanicsville (1864); Grant's strategy and movements; and the necessity of evacuating Richmond (Feb. 1865). William Blount papers by William Blount 1 edition. Also included are two manuscript biographies (1883, 1910) of William Blount; and "Address to the Colored Voters of North Carolina...." (1899); "Government by Judges" by Walter Clark (1914); "The Right of Women to Make a Living," by Walter Clark; and "The Ruins of Washington" by Rev. B. Covington Company, Springer Lumber Company, the Allegheny Lumber Company, Roanoke Railroad and Lumber Company, Greenleaf Johnson Lumber Company, Eureka Lumber Company, and the E. M. Short Lumber Company. A late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century scrapbook contains mathematics rules and examples, over which clippings have been sewn or pasted. William Blount Tennessee State Museum, Tennessee Historical Society Collection, Nashville, TN William Blount, the eldest son of Jacob Blount, Sr., and Barbara Gray Blount, was born in Bertie County, North Carolina, on March 26, 1749. Other topics concern western North Carolina circuit courts and local politics (1897); congressional and judicial candidacy of George H. Brown (1894, 1902); prohibition in Leechville and Charlotte (1901, 1906); possible racial segregation on steamboats (1901); the efforts of John N. Small to establish U.S. district and circuit courts in Washington, N.C. (1904); Samuel J. Ervin, Sr., on the "Morganton War" (1905); and the financial difficulties precipitated by the pursuit of politics (1909). Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law. Civil suits of persons, corporations, railroads, and lumber companies pertain to land. Email any questions. 4 - (Jan. 1-Apr. Land disputes, litigation, and surveys comprise a major topic of discussion. Lily spent the day sharing cookies with several area organizations. 1809 After one term in the State Legislature, he was elected Governor of Tennessee, defeating William Cocke by about 3,000 votes. The Mary Marcia Blount Rodman (1837-1906, undated) letters contain interesting commentary on social life and activity in eastern North Carolina and Beaufort County. From the description of William Blount papers, 1794-1796. A State Board of Education volume notes land and timber holdings of the state agency (1892-1899). Legal records are filed by county. It later comes up as a political question (1937) on the advent of Rodman III's term in the state Senate and again in 1942 with a proposal for wine control legislation and the ensuing taxes from it. Letters dealing with constitutional and court reform are numerous and provide indepth insight into efforts to devise a code of civil procedures, election of judges, drafting of legislation for the state penal codes, organization of superior courts in the state, unjust estate laws, efforts to strengthen stay laws and bankruptcy laws, crowding of dockets with Negroes, the struggle for federal judgeships, and efforts by Rodman to limit jurisdiction of the courts. Topics of particular interest include a speech by Governor Zebulon Vance, convention officials, General E. R. S. Canby and his visit to the General Assembly, development of the legislative code, efforts of General Milton Littlefield to "buy" legislators in Florida and N.C., stealing by Republican officeholders, the trial of George Swepson and Milton Littlefield, and the flight of Swepson from the state. He was also involved in national politics, serving as a delegate to the Continental Congress (1782, 1783, 1786, and 1787) and as a member of the convention that framed the U. S. Constitution (1787). William A. Graham (1876); Early Times in Raleigh, (1876) by David L. Swain; and Address Delivered before the Two Literary Societies of the University of North Carolina (1850). An early law case documents an endowment by the Protestant Episcopal Church of a college in the eastern diocese (1890-1900) and a journal of the tenth annual council (1893) reports on progress to date. 00007. During the 1780s he was elected to six terms in the North Carolina legislature, represented his Correspondence between Rodman and his wife during the Reconstruction era is rich in commentary on the 1868 Constitutional Convention, judicial activities, state political officials, and life in Raleigh. The collection includes papers of Thomas Blount. It should be kept in mind that considerable overlapping is necessary for each division and that correspondence between Rodman and his wife Camilla constitutes a separate major subdivision. Genealogical notes (ca. 15-June 19, 1901), State Guard, judgeship, politics, oyster commissionVol. Volume 3 includes correspondence of William Blount, his brothers and associates regarding Blount's expulsion from the Senate and subsequent impeachment trial. On this day in 1797, Tennessee senator William Blount is impeached by the House of Representatives. 17 - (Dec. 3, 1898-Jan. 18, 1899), cotton, State Guard, business, politics, segregated school taxes; [item is missing]Vol. November 14, 2012, (unprocessed addition 5), ca. Jerry Moran and Roger Marshall, to ask if they intend to hold former President Donald Trump accountable for his role in the post-election World War II is reflected in the section of Coast Guard Auxiliary papers (1931-1945) with lists of flotilla officers, members, and private boats owned as well as the October 1943 issue of Ahoy, the Coast Guard Auxiliary publication. Beaufort County records include legal instruments; writs; summonses; land and slave deeds; an application (1863) to transport provisions; an order (1867) for the establishment of a ferry; and estates records for the Latham family (1828), William Morton (1842-1846), Elisha Prichitt (1845), Oscar Baily (1860), the Tayloe family (1866), John R. Davis (1830-1845), Ludowick Reddick (1839-1846), the Donnell family, and Gray Gudkins. 49 from the Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, Speech of C. C. Pool of Pasquotank County on the Question of Suffrage and the Eligibility to Office, The Policy of Congress in Reference to the Restoration of the Union.... An Act to Provide for the More Efficient Government of the Rebel States, Oratory: An Oration by Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, Amendments to the Constitution of North Carolina, Proposed, In Memoriam; Theodore Benedict Lyman... Bishop of North Carolina. Much of the correspondence concerns Rodman's legal representation of lumber companies in suits involving debt collections and timber litigation. Also included are photocopies of a 1910 document setting up Rodman scholarship awards at N.C. State University, East Carolina University, and UNC-Greensboro. Speculative investment in land comprises another major topic. William was the eldest in his family, and was born in 1749 while his mother was visiting her father-in-law's Rosefield estate. Included are commentaries on Northern political vengeance, the necessity of reorganizing the government and social institutions of the South, disfranchisement, confiscation, Negro suffrage, the lack of adequate labor and the destruction of the labor system, high wages required by the Freedmen's Bureau, emigration of Negroes from the state, widespread crop failures, and consequent destitution. Special Collections Online at The University of Tennessee. While governor of the Southwest Territory, William Blount built as mansion in Knoxville, which is now a National Historic Landmark. Cheshire, Joseph Blount, Jr. nd. Rodman became attorney for the Board in 1902 and supervised the survey and sale of the lands. Much speculation concerns federal movements in Beaufort County and surrounding areas. A small series of legislative files (1953) documents Rodman III's activities in the state House where he was active in budget committees. He died in Knoxville in 1800, aged 50. Information concerning livestock, including diseases in animals, involves horses, cattle, chickens, and hogs. Illustrated. Numerous antebellum letters pertain to the hiring of slaves (1846-1857), high prices for Negro labor in Portsmouth (1853), and the condition of Northern laborers (1857). Included is correspondence, legal files, letter books, business records, farm records, reports, photographs, newspapers and other related materials. Other comments of interest concern the precarious financial condition of the Norfolk Southern Railroad (1867), difficulties of the times, scarcity of money, and financial hardships. discuss tuition, entertainment, sports, fraternities, faculty, and the law school; whereas, the West Point letters describe life of a cadet, trips to New York City, and the operation of the Academy. Collections are stored offsite, and a minimum of 24 hours is needed to retrieve these items for use. A trial docket lists cases for Beaufort County courts (1860-1867). (Newberry Library). Willie Blount, lawyer, judge, and governor of Tennessee, was born at Blount Hall, Craven County, the son of Jacob Blount and Hannah Salter Baker, widow of William Baker. A diary (1917) details submarine duty activities while on maneuvers. The Library of Congressâs digital scans of the papers of Andrew Jackson are in the public domain. The correspondence revolves around the eastern North Carolina land interests of the Rodman family. Other letters concern the Deep Creek and Susquehanna Railroad (1890); the selling of the Eastern Carolina and Onslow Railroad to the Atlantic Coastline Railroad (Feb. 1894); the use of convict labor for railroad building (Nov., Dec. 1895; Aug. 1910); a lease of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad (Dec. 1896); the projected extension of a railroad to Hyde County and eventually to a navigable water port (Sept. 1898); condemnation of railroad lands through Pitt County (April 1899); and lease of Rodman's land by the Washington and Plymouth Railroad Company (1902). Rodman applied his legal talents to protect the holdings in order to maintain control by the Rodman family and to prevent encroachments by squatters or timber poachers. The impeachments of Sen. William Blount in 1797 and Secretary of War William Belknap in 1876 both occurred after the men were no longer in office. New-York Historical Society New York, NY Papers: 1796-1797, 1 volume. Briefs lacking county identification include a will of Theophilus Slaughter (1850); notes pertaining to the William Mayo family (ca. Not in Library. Check out the other postcards that I have listed. The letters contain innumerable comments on persons and activities in and around the Beaufort County and Washington, North Carolina, area. 13, 1903), cotton, segregated schools, legislation, banking, lumber, Code Commission, State Guard, politics, town and street descriptionsVol. The collection was originally called the David Campbell Papers, but was changed to reflect the presence of papers originating from other relatives. Publications include a copy of Confederate Reveille (Memorial Edition, 1898), Carolina and the Southern Cross (October 1913), a sketch of Rodman I's service to the Confederacy by L. T. Rodman, a publication on Stonewall Jackson, information about pensions for Confederate soldiers, the Confederate Handbook (1900), and Lee at Lexington (1935). The scope and complexity of the collection necessitates groupings or divisions of material that complement or overlap each other. He was the younger half-brother of Southwest Territory governor, William Blount Donor: Mrs. Adelaide C. Snyder. He writes in 1874 about business failures, difficulties in farming, and the emigration of labor, and in 1883 about the burning of his gin house and the near-lynching of a Negro suspect, the severe drought, and the burning of other gin houses. These volumes contain on onionskin paper copies of the outgoing correspondence of Rodman and provide the responses by Rodman to the letters described previously. From the description of William Blount papers, 1794-1796. Business correspondence (1845-1887) illustrates the professional interests of a wealthy, successful Southern planter and lawyer. Of particular interest are estate papers (1913) of M. M. B. Rodman; plat maps for lands on the Pamlico River; plats and legal records pertaining to disputed timber lands of John Gray Blount in Beaufort and surrounding counties; patent book for Blount lands between Adams Creek and North River in Carteret County; financial accounts of Aurora Land Company (1898); and contractual details for plumbing installation in the Rodman home in Charlotte (1905). Raleigh, N.C.: State Department of Archives and History, 1952-1965. A group of legal files, closely related to Rodman's business interests, are arranged in alphabetical order. I have repeatedly telephoned my U.S. Sens. 1787), the failure of naval officers to submit annual returns (April 1787), Indian treaties, and the purchase of barter goods for treaty negotiation (Aug. 1785). Gift of the children of Judge William B. Rodman, Jr. Indications of stumpage are included for the 1960s and 1970s. life of william blount. The John Gray Blount Papers. Legal correspondence dealing with business and financial matters comprises an important aspect of the Rodman legal files. Family correspondents include Ellicott's wife, Sarah Ellicott, and his brother, Joseph Ellicott. Blount was a delegate from North Carolina when he placed his signature on the U.S. Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787. Education pamphlets are both political and legal in nature and are concerned with public school law (1955), a report from the N.C. 22 - (Mar. "WILLIAM BLOUNT" William Blount's great-grandfather, Thomas Blount, came to the Americas from England in 1660. By an Eastern Whig (1860) by William B. Rodman. Pamphlets include a report of the treasurer to the General Assembly (1846); a report of the chief engineer of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad (1855); a public finances excerpt from the N.C. Statist (1858); a pamphlet of Warren Winslow concerning the Code Commission (June 1860); Ad Valorem; or Equal Taxation (1860); Resolutions and Address of the Wake County Workingmen's Association (1859); and Ad Valorem Taxation as proposed in N. Carolina, The Facts and Figures. (Raleigh, NC: State Department of Archives and History, 1952-59), 2: 67. The papers of Rodman III are divided into several series that overlap and complement each other. Papers description begins Clarence E. Carter, ed., The Territorial Papers of the United States, Washington, 1934–1962, 26 vols. [17]Remini, Andrew Jackson, 52. Correspondence throughout reflects Rodman's collection efforts for New York, Baltimore, and Philadelphia firms such as Joseph Louchheimer; D. G. Foley; Snow, Church, and Company; George Williar and Son; Merchants' Protective Credit Bureau; the United States Law and Collection Agency; Shriver-Bartlett, and Company; and the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company. William Blount was born to Jacob and Barbara (Gray) Blount in Bertie County, North Carolina on March 26, 1749. Additional pamphlets include: General order No. Timber purchase and sale and the activities of the various lumber companies in Beaufort County and in eastern North Carolina are discussed as topics in the legal files. Communications from attorneys across the state comprise a significant portion of the letters. The younger Rodman graduated from the University of North Carolina and studied law under William Gaston. A significant amount of correspondence pertains to the management and disposition of lands controlled by the North Carolina Literary Board. Other Rodman I records include Fork Farm records (1867-1880); financial records (1857-1879, undated), including a statement of monies relating to shingle manufacture (1867-1868); land records (1841-1890); personal legal papers, including a list of slaves of Thomas H. Blount (1845); wills of Liberian immigrants Hull and Cherry Anderson with births of members of the Anderson family of Liberia; and slave records (1843-1859, undated). BLOUNT, WILLIAM, fourth Lord Mountjoy (d. 1534), patron of learning and statesman, born at Barton, in Staffordshire, was the son and heir of John, third lord Mountjoy, by Lora, his wife, and grandson of Sir Walter Blount, first Lord Mountjoy [q. v.] He succeeded to the title, while still a child, on his father's death ⦠18-July 17, 1899), railroads, politics, shellfish commission, State Guard, Greenville fire, landsVol. William Blount Rodman I Papers. 14 - (Dec. 31, 1897-May 10, 1898), agriculture, State Guard, cotton marketing, federal judgeship, county geology, Spanish-American War, politics, Guard mobilizationVol. He was the only child of Anna Richey Gale and George Lucena Blount. Correspondence throughout the papers pertains to the sale of Rodman's cotton by the commission firms of George Rountree and Company and Savage and Sons. Numerous letters comment on such N.C. political figures as W. W. Holden, Sion Rogers, Zebulon Vance, Daniel R. Goodloe, and David Heaton. Some general topics gathered from a superficial inspection of the volumes are as follows: Vol. 2 - (Apr. He married Mary Grainger (1753-1802) on February 12, 1778 and the couple had at least six children: Ann, Mary Louisa, William Grainger, Richard Blackledge, Barbara, and Eliza. He first resided in Virginia, then moved to North Carolina, and started his family. Agricultural correspondence (1867-1868) documents widespread crop failures. 3, 1902), State Guard, politics, agriculture, baseballVol. These include legal cases involving Major William Clark; property questions for New Bern, Hyde County, Warrenton, and other localities; schooling at Sedgwick Female Seminary in Raleigh; a surgeon's appointment at the Marine Hospital at Portsmouth; life at Fort Moore, N.Y.; and the sale of Negroes with their names and prices. Other correspondence discusses the absence of a tax collector for the town of Chocowinity (1912-1913).