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State Archives of North Carolina"},{"label":"Language","value":["English"]},{"label":"Description","value":"John A. Sutton (ca. 1822-1889), owner of a 297-acre farm in WNW Lenoir County on Neuse River, on the road leading from Kinston to Seven Springs (formerly Whitehall), raised, ginned, and baled his own cotton crop. A small slaveowner before the Civil War, Sutton operated his farm business after the Civil War with the assistance of his sons and hired labor. The farm appears to have been very nearly self-sufficient, judging from the nature of the bills and invoices in this small groups of papers. They reflect purchases of farm equipment and supplies, shoes and clothing, dry goods, medical services, and tuition for his children--but none of grocer's, butcher's, or others' wares. Other collection materials include some deeds, mortgage deeds, bills of sale, notes of hand, tax receipts, insurance papers, and a printed pamphlet related to the International Order of Odd Fellows, of which Sutton was a member at least as early as 1850..    In the census year of 1870, his farm in Kinston Township produced wheat, rye, corn, potatoes, butter, and cotton. Not reported in the census, but reflected in the papers, the orchards on the farm produced a quantity of apple and peach brandy both before the Civil War and afterwards.  The economic depressions of the 1870s and 1890s arising from the panics of 1873 and 1893 are reflected in the homestead exemption, mortgage deeds, and judgments found among the papers. Apparently it was not until after the depression of 1893-1898 that the main crop of the farm was changed from cotton to tobacco.    Sutton was twice married, first to Rosey A. H. Sutton (1827-1855), then, three months after her death to Sarah C. A (1832-1912). (The undated order for a gravestone for his first wife and footstones for his dead children appears to date from shortly after the second marriage.) In 1862 Sutton enlisted in Company C, 66th Regiment, N.C. Troops, as a private, being detailed subsequently as a waggoner then as a division ambulance driver. He is assumed to have worshiped at Wheat Swamp Church, and he was a member of the fraternal society, International Order of Odd Fellows.    Inventory of Folder Headings:    Atlantic & N.C. 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