SERIES DESCRIPTIONS

Series 1: Personal Correspondence, 1795 - 1875 (3 boxes)
Personal letters written to and from members of the King family.   The letters include news of illness, treatments, deaths, purchase of slaves, land purchases, crop production and other family news.

Series 2:  Legal Documents: 1795 - 1877 (3 boxes)
Legal documents that deal with taxes, inventories and land grants of the King family.

Series 3:  Biographical, 1932
Typescript photocopy of the memoir of Colonel James Moore King titled, "Colonel James Moore King, A Southern Gentleman, 1792-1877," from Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Series 4:  Genealogy Notes and Correspondence, 1766 - 1935 (8 folders)
This series includes notes on the King, Moore, Batey, Blackman, and other families.  a Booklet Record of the Thomas family 1772 - 1903 and information taken from different family members covering the dates 1795 - 1932.

Series 5:  Miscellaneous, 1858 - 1874 (1 box)
This series includes newspaper clippings, and other scraps with notes and other information.

Processing Note
To find out more information on James Moore King and family, please consult the Baskin Collection.  Within that collection is a document written by James Moore King's youngest son William King during the Civil War.

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