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Private Collections. State Archives of North Carolina"},{"label":"Language","value":["English"]},{"label":"Description","value":"This collection contains approximately 160 items including 60 pieces of correspondence and 100 miscellaneous manuscript and printed items. It reflects aspects of the lives of the Stubbs, Waters, Jackson, and related families who lived in northern Beaufort County on the stretches of arable land sloping from the long ridge of high ground called Long Acre, which divides Great Swamp from East Dismal Swamp. Here they settled prior to the American Revolution, and here they eked out thier lives as subsistence farmers and swampers.    Of the 60 pieces of correspondence in this small collection, 41 letters were written by Waters to his cousins Levi Stubbs and William McCoy (\"Coy\") Stubbs at Long Acre. Nearly half of his letters are descriptive of the geophysical features, flora and fauna, weather, and people of the areas through which he traveled. (Five 1908 letters are concerned chiefly with the devastating floods caused by heavy rains that year.) Others of his letters reflect his attitude toward American Indians in the territory, and some make special reference to \"Chief Crazy Snake\" (Chitto Harjo) of the Creek Nation and his opposition to U.S. land policy. Two of his letters mention his activities on behalf of the Grand Army of the Republic, while another half dozen mention Union veterans whom he encountered on his travels.    A few of the letters hark back to events out of Waters's experience as a Union soldier in occupied Washington, N.C. His letter of March 4, 1910, recalls a scuffle in the town between the soldiers of Company A and those of Company B when cleaning their mess kits. His letter of January 22, 1911, makes reference to tricks played by the 1st Regiment, N.C. Volunteers (U.S.A.) while pretending to raise a black cavalry regiment (this letter may or may not be related to an incident referred to in his letter of January 14, 1911.)    An undated letter, presumably written on May 1, 1905, encloses the text of Henry Clay Work's song on the theme of black U.S.A. regiments in the Civil War, \"Babylon is Fallen\" (\"Don't you see de Black clouds rising ober yonder, Whar massa's old plantation am\"). Others of his letters include reminiscences of rude \"frolics\".and happenings at Long Acre during his earlier years. All of his letters invariably send greetings to named kinsmen and friends at home and ask for news of their health and condition. His letters in 1910 are filled with concern at the news that his grandson, the eighteen-year-old Carl Kelly, had murdered a rival in a house of ill repute in Washington, N.C., and express anxiety over the emotional state of his estranged wife, Matilda.    Of the remaining 19 pieces of correspondence, few are worth special mention. The 1873 letter from Emma H. Waters to Levi Stubbs is on the subject of securing for her the neighborhood school, despite the fact that it had already been promised to a Mr. Habourn. Of two letters written by the Rev. Alexander Corey, one, his letter of May 12, 1910, is written from the Southern Baptist Convention being held at Baltimore asking whether he is wanted to hold a fall meeting at Pinetown or not, and the other, dated December 6, 1910, asks to borrow the local church's decorations for use on a Christmas tree he plans to give to his students at Pine Grove Academy in Jamesville, N.C. The remaining letters are chiefly of family interest.    Miscellaneous papers in the collection include both manuscript and printed matter and are characteristic, for the most part, of ephemera from the life of a turn-of-the-century-eastern-North Carolina family. The excep�tions include the fragment of Maum Guinea and her Plantation \"Children,\" the popular1861 anti-slavery novel by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (Beadle's Dime Novel No.33); the. fragment is sewn into a homemade paper cover made from an 1868 Democratic Party presidential campaign poster (the Stubbs family were Republicans). The other exception is an anonymous, undated death threat meant to force from the neighborhood one of the sons of Bethuel Crandall Jackson (called \"Crap\" in the letters).This document is housed in the folder containing the Jackson family record, 1779-1885."},{"label":"Digital Characteristics","value":"4 pages"},{"label":"Format","value":["Finding aids"]},{"label":"Rights","value":"The SA of NC considers this item in the public domain by U.S. law but responsibility for permissions rests with researchers."},{"label":"Source Collections","value":["William McCoy Stubbs Papers. Private Collections. 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