FOSCUE FAMILY PAPERS, #4643, 1753-1869
Correspondence, financial and legal materials, and miscellaneous items chiefly relating to
the family of Simon Foscue, planter of Trent Bridges (later Pollocksville), Jones County,
North Carolina. Legal documents contain a listing of slaves (1803);
records of the buying, selling, and hiring-out of slaves (1831-1853); and several receipts for jail and apprehension fees paid to the
sheriff for the capture of runaway slaves. Correspondence includes a letter concerning the
hiring of a pregnant slave (1860); the flight of the Foscue family
and slaves deeper South during the Civil War (1862); and a fragment
of an account of the murder of the Keaves Foscue family by black robbers (1866).
