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Includes materials from Jones Spencer, Esq. and guardian of George and Cornelius Howard, documenting payments for "keeping" of enslaved Black people, including children and adults. Names include: Beck and children, Henry, Sally, Hetta and children, and Arnold. These materials have been removed to their own folder for ease of access.

Physicians accounts and receipts that document the doctor's visits to the plantation, often visiting and treating different enslaved people. For example, several notes mention "attendance on negro child." There is also an 1850 receipt for midwifer care for Beck, an enslaved mother. Most receipts note they have been paid by Jones Spencer.

Includes materials regarding the establishment and building of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Fairfield, N.C.

Includes estate and legal materials relating to Arnold Gray, as well as a document certifying Woodbury Davis as Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.