MS249                                
Lewis J. Hardee, Jr.

This collection represents the over twenty years of research that went into the creation of Mr. Hardee's privately published volume Three Southern Families - A History of Connecting Hardee, Jones, and Davis Families of Coastal North Carolina, published in 1994 by Southport Historical Society, Southport NC and printed by the Barefoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC.

Included in the collection are letters, diaries, ledgers, notes and ephemera dating from the early 19th century and through the 20th century. The collection also includes many secondary sources which help paint a more thorough picture of the Hardee, Jones, and Davis Families history within the context of local, national and international events.


This collection was donated to the William Madison Randall Library by Lewis J. Hardee and family in July 2003.

The Collection has been designated Accession Number 249 of the Manuscripts Collection, Special Collections Department, William Madison Randall Library, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 601 South College Road, Wilmington, North Carolina 28403-3297.

There are no access restrictions on this collection.

Inventory
Manuscript Number/Box/File

249/1
Three Families:  A History of Connecting Hardee, Jones and Davis Families of Coastal North Carolina, Lewis J. Hardee Jr., 1994

249/1/1
Curriculum Vitae of Professor Lewis J. Hardee, Jr.

249/1/2

Copies of 2 certificates: Who's Who in the East, 1997/98
Who's Who in Entertainment, 1992/93 Various reviews, letters, requests referring to Lewis Hardee, Jr. 1990s

249/1/3

Hardee, Lewis J. Jr., "The Published Songs and Arias of Douglas Moore." The NATS Bulletin. May. 1973.
Hardee, Lewis J. Jr., "How We Save the Fourth of July Parade." State Port Pilot, Southport, NC. [June 27, 2001].
Hardee, Lewis J. Jr., "The Perils of Baby Doe." Columbia Library Columns. Nov. 1973.
Hardee, Lewis J. Jr., "General William J. Hardee." The UDC Magazine. Apr. 1990.

249/2/1
European origins of Hardee, Jones and Davis families

249/2/2

Family history correspondence, 1960's - 1991

249/2/3

Family history correspondence, 1991 - 1992

249/2/4
Family history correspondence, 1992 - 1994

249/2/5

Virginia Colonial Abstracts- mentions Charles, King and Queen, and Essex counties 1600s through early 1700s

249/2/6

Virginia Colonial Abstracts Vol. II (marriages)

249/2/7

Articles- "Captain John Smith and The Jamestown Story,"
"Parish Lines - Diocese of Virginia,"

"The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607 - 1660"

249/2/8
"The Complete Book of Emigrants," includes the following years, 1661 - 1699, 1700 - 1750,
1751 - 1776
Handwritten notes/ copy of antique map, 1676

249/2/9

"Essex County, Virginia Records, 1717 - 1722"
"Marriages of
Isle of Wight County marriages, 1628 - 1800,"
 "Virginia settlers and English Adventures," abstracts of wills and legal proceedings, 1484 - 1798
 Handwritten notes

249/2/10

Handwritten notes

"Wills and Administrations Isle of Wight County, 1647- 1800" Book I
and Book II
"Adventures of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607 - 1624/5,"

249/2/11

"Virginia Marriage Records"
 
Virginia Colonial Abstracts
about Charles County

"Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623 - 1666"

"Marriages of some Virginia Residents, 1607 - 1800"
 Notes

249/2/12

"17th Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia," 1973, 1980

249/2/13

Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents, 17th century

249/2/14

Early Colonial Seals
Virginia Land Records

249/3/1
NC Cities: Beaufort, New Bern, Bath, postcards

249/3/2

Abstracts of Land Patents for NC,1663 - 1729
Abstracts of NC wills
Genealogy Index
Handwritten notes

249/3/3

Genealogical Register, July 1903

249/3/4
Pasquotank County Wills (ca. 1687 - 1860)

Map of VA and MD, 1676

Quaker marriage certificates

249/3/5
Old Albemarle County, NC miscellaneous records, 1678 - 1737

249/3/6

Perquimans County Precinct Birth, Marriages, Deaths & Flesh Marks, deed abstracts, court minutes, land warrants and surveys

249/3/7

Old Albemarle County, NC Births, Marriages, Deaths, Flesh Marks 1691 - 1833
Old Albemarle County, NC Land Warrants & Surveys 1681 - 1706

249/3/8

Pasquotank County, NC Record of Deeds 1700 - 1751

Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy
Vol. I

Handwritten notes, 1990

249/3/9
"The Heritage of Carteret County, NC Vol. I - 1982"

Handwritten notes

"History of Perquimans County," by Mrs. Watson Winslow

249/3/10
Perquimans County, A Brief History - Alan D. Watson

"The Loyalists in NC During The Revolution"

More White Family data

249/3/11
"Appleton Oaksmith, A Doomed Dreamer;"
The Southern Friend, Journal of NC Friends Historical Society
, Vol. VI #2, 1984

249/3/12
North Carolina Higher-Court Records, 1697 - 1701

White Family Genealogy

249/3/13
John Hardee/Charity O'Dyer, Deeds made by George Turberville, 1673, Westmoreland County, VA

249/3/14
Correspondence and poems of Sidney Lanier
1860's
William Davis letter
25 July, 1756 - Last Will & Testament

249/3/15
The Wicker/Whicker Family, Devonshire, VA. & NC

249/3/16
Survey/bios family members

249/3/17
Jones from Jesse Jones, migrated from New England 1780s
Hardee, Beaufort County, NC 1740's Davis, William I. B. about 1630; line from him----Quakers, Pasquotank County

249/4/1
Beaufort, NC - Siege of Fort Macon
 NC
Post Cards, "Scenes of Historic Beaufort, NC"

249/4/2
Bulletin, Davis Family Reunion, April 4 & 5, 1992 Fernandina, FL

Lists of Descendants of Canellum H. & Jane Davis

240/4/3
20th Century Davis Family
Individual data on William Allen Davis

249/4/4
Notes referring to families, Hardee, Jones, and Davis Lines, several towns

249/4/5
Capt. John Hardee, 1742 - 1803, research data

249/4/6
Capt. John Hardee, 1742 - 1803, research data

249/4/7
Capt. John Hardee, 1742 - 1803, research data

249/4/8
Capt. John Hardee, 1742 - 1803, research data


249/4/9
Capt. John Hardee, 1742 - 1803 research data

249/4/10
Capt. John Hardee, 1742 - 1803, research data
NC Revolutionary War Navy (photocopied)

249/4/11
Col. John Hardee research data,
First Hardy's in America ca. 1695 Ancestry of Allen Hardee, 1802 - 1870

249/4/12
Historical info on John Hardee and Sarah Ellis Hardee, his wife


249/5/1

"Colonial Soldiers of The South 1732 - 1774"

"Colonial Families of Southern States of America"
Higher Court Records 17th century

249/5/2
Handwritten notes

Data from Virginia Tax Records (College of William & Mary)
Virginia Wills and Administrations, 1632 - 1800 (excerpts)

249/5/3
Georgia Land Grant document to John Hardee (Maj.) 1838
Data on John Hardee (Major, War of 1812) 1769 - 1838 Pioneers of Wiregrass, GA. - excerpts

249/5/4
Joseph Hardee
From Parish Records Middlesex and Essex Counties
Assorted handwritten data

249/5/5
Thomas Ellis Hardee; inventory of Estate

249/5/6
Information pertaining to Hull Family: William Washington Hull 1819 - 1892
Information pertaining to Tyson - Moore Family, Beaufort County (now Pitt County) NC

240/5/7
Hull and Tyson Families,
Correspondence to Lewis Hardee, Jr.

249/5/8
Gen. John Floyd data

249/5/9
Charles Ellis Family data

249/5/10
Charles Seton Henry Hardee

240/5/11
Lucius Augustus Hardee

249/5/12
Dilworth Family

249/5/13
Appleton Oaksmith

249/5/14
Noble Andrew Hardee

249/5/15
Odette Tyler. Col. John Baker

249/5/16
William Pearson Hardee

249/5/17
Dr. Charles Hardee, Civilian Physician, 1830 - 1917 

249/5/18
Dr. Charles Hardee, civilian Physician, 1830 - 1917
 

249/6/1
Gen. William J. Hardee, C.S.A.
Speech by Lewis J. Hardee, Jr. on Gen. Hardee, March 1989 to UDC New York Chapter 103
Copy of NY Herald article may 9, 1865
Various articles about Civil War

249/6/2
Copies of Union & Confederate correspondence referring to Georgia, So. Carolina, No. Carolina and Florida

UDC Magazine April 1990 - article on Gen. William J. Hardee

Booklet: Civil War Pictures, Division Archives & History Raleigh, NC

249/6/3
 2 issues UDC Magazine, April 1990
Article on Gen. William Hardee

249/6/4
Various papers; reference to William Hardee and Confederate Vets

249/6/5
Georgia's Stone Mountain Park

249/6/6
John Richardson Hardee, 1870 - 1926
Certified Letters Testamentary Estate of J. R. Hardee
Copies of family scrapbook photos
The Southeast Georgian, Dec. 23, 1926 obituary of John R. Hardee

249/6/7
Assorted notes and papers on John R. Hardee

249/6/8
Assorted state and county permits
Sympathy cards attached from floral arrangements, 1926

249/6/9
Mary Allen Davis, executrix Last Will & Testament of Lewis A. Davis
Old bank books, letters, articles, postcards

249/6/10
Ella Content Davis; Compositions, 1899 - 1900

249/6/11
Various notes on family members

249/7/1

Howard D. Hardee. Family correspondence, news

249/7/2
"Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War, 1861-1865"
Abstract of Wills 1690 - 1760
Family notes

249/7/3
Genealogy of Eldridge and Florence Partin

Davis Family Reunion, April 4 & 5, 1992, Fernandina, FL.

249/7/4
Elizabeth S. Richardson - Bill for Partition, Duval County, FL. 1924

249/7/5
20th century Davis family, Carteret County, NC

Numerous Davis family members Last Will & Testament

249/7/6
Davis family from William Davis, 1630's


249/7/7

Davis family; notes, memories, obituaries


249/7/8

Fernandina Beach, birthplace of shrimping c. 1900

249/7/9

St. Mary's, GA

249/7/10
Savannah, GA


249/7/11

Virginia


249/7/12

"The Town Fathers of Beaufort, Carteret County, NC 1723 - 1988"
 
249/713
Civil War Catalog of Publications 1992-1993
 
249/8/1

Excerpts of Colonial Records of No. Carolina


249/8/2

The Golden Isles of Georgia


249/8/3

Carteret County NC taxpayers, 1701 - 1786

Court Minutes 1723 - 1747 and 1778 - 1789
Levees


249/8/4
Pitt County Deeds


249/8/5

Finding Index for people of Camden County, GA. Prior 1850


249/8/6

Grandpa Was A Whaler
:  A Story of Carteret Chadwicks


249/8/7

Handwritten unpublished history by Julia King of Hardy - Hardees


249/8/8

Genealogical Collection (excerpts) of Alex. D. Williams, Douglas, GA, showing relationships
to Hardee from 1700's in Territorial Florida

249/8/9

Family records of births, deaths, marriages from Hull and Hardee family bible


249/8/10

More excerpts from collection referring to Hull, Barrie, Hardee in 1800s GA. And FL.


249/8/11

Ordinary's Office: marriage records 1800's GA. & FL.

249/8/12

Extracts of Information from University of Georgia Library, Athens, GA 1946
 

249/9/1
The Georgia Genealogical Magazine; Wills and Minutes, from 1803


249/9/2

Georgia Court-House records, Camden County from 1700s


249/9/3
Georgia Court-House records, Camden County from 1700s continued


249/9/4

Georgia Court-House records, Camden County from 1700s

249/9/5

The children of Charles Hardee; Charles Hardee, Jr.


249/9/6

Noble Anthony Hardee, 1879 - 1955


249/9/7

Ira W. Hardee, 1881 - 1943


249/9/8

Anecdotes and data on children, grandchildren of Charles Hardee


249/9/9

Hardee family tree (partial)


249/9/10

Gen. William J. Hardee, Civil War items


249/9/11

Gen. William J. Hardee, Civil War items


249/9/12

Gen. William J. Hardee, Civil War items


249/9/13

Gen. William J. Hardee, Civil War items


249/9/14

Gen. William J. Hardee, Civil War items


249/9/15

More Civil War references


249/10/1

Handwritten exercise book of thoughts. Authored by several Davis/Jones women, 1861/1878


249/10/2

Notebook of Ella C. Davis, Oct. 1899, with names, addresses of classmates, personal messages


249/10/3

Composition book: Ella C. Davis, Dec. 1900


249/10/4

Math work book, no date, no name


249/10/5

Diary of Susan J. Jones


249/10/6

Cash book, 1864
Diary of Susan J. Jones

249/11/1

Mama Ella at 90 and 100, Jan. 1982, Belmont, NC


249/11/2

Exercises; belonged to Ella C. Davis, 1898/99. news clips and various writings.


249/11/3
Birthday calendar book--Ella Davis

249/11/4
Sue Jones Diary, 1890s

1970 Day Timer, no name

249/11/5

Autograph book, no name or date


249/11/6
Early Georgia census
Notes from Georgia Historical Society

249/11/7

Cemetery Records of Carteret County, NC


249/11/8

Cemetery Records of Georgia, Florida
Georgia Historical Society notes

240/11/9

St. Mary's Cemetery, Camden, Georgia


249/11/10

Records for several cemeteries in Georgia
Historical notes

249/11/11

Cemetery records, various

249/11/12

Davis and Hardee Genealogy, family records


249/12/1

Family correspondence, multi years


249/12/2

Family correspondence, 1918


249/12/3

Family correspondence, multi years


249/12/4

Davis family memento's


249/12/5

Jones family research- various items and periods
 
249/12/6

Jones family research, memorabilia, various items from 1860s


249/12/7

Handwritten accounts, notes, poems, etc.

249/12/8
Jones family memorabilia from the 1870s

249/12/9

Jones descendants chart

Typed copies of letters from 1860s


249/12/10

Typed copied of lettered, essays from 1860s


249/12/11
Jones - Davis No. Carolina heritage


249/12/12

Appleton Oaksmith, a tragic life
Jones family recollections

249/12/13
CD created for reunion of John R. Hardee family, June 27/28, 2003

249/13/1
Photos, postcards from Ellas C. Davis scrapbook


249/13/2

Scrapbook: the Dionne Quintuplets, etc.


249/13/3

Scrapbook items: Religious pictures
 

249/13/4

Scrapbook items: assorted cut-outs

249/13/5

Genealogy sheets on Jones family


249/13/6

Jones family Genealogy


249/13/7

Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia, Vol. I - IV


249/13/8

Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia, Vol. V - VII


249/13/9

Civil War Books Old & New, Catalog 172


249/13 10

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. I 1888

249/13/11
Civil War Books, Catalog 171 - Broadfoot's Bookmark


249/13/12

Chronicles of Pitt County, No. Carolina, compiled by the Pitt County Historical Society, 1982

249/13/13
"One Dozen Pre-Revolutionary War Families of Eastern North Carolina & Some of Their Descendants"


249/13/14

Pitt County Potpourri, by John G. Duncan, 1966
 
249/13/15

Kith and Kin of Eastern Carteret County, 1983


249/14/1

Notes from pre Revolutionary research

249/14/2
Revolutionary Records of The State of Georgia
 
249/14/3

Revolutionary Records of The State of Georgia

249/14/4

Revolutionary Records of The State of Georgia


249/14/5
Three Southern Families, The Hardee Line


249/14/6

Three Southern Families, The Jones Line


249/14/7

Three Southern Families, The Davis Line
 
249/14/8

Three Southern Families, The Crandall Line


249/14/9

Information on Hardee's includes articles, short histories and notes

249/14/10
Caroline Hardee Godfrey, histories of the Hardee family, notes on the male line

249/14/11
Short histories of early male Hardee's ca. 1700s -

249/14/12
History of Hardee Family, by Charles Seton Hardee, 1927

Colonial Residents of Virginias Eastern Shore
Court records


249/14/13

Col. John Hardee (1707 - 1784),
Children of Maj. John Hardee, Family Plantation maps, Georgia

249/14/14

Hardee family references various historical source


249/14/15
Children of Thomas Ellis Hardee

249/15/1
Lucius Augustus Hardee

249/15/2
Charles Floyd Hardee, M.D.


249/15/3

Charles Floyd Hardee, M.D.
Civil War Medicine

240/15/4

Charles F. Hardee, M.D.


249/15/5

Correspondence - Davis, Hardee, Jones and others, 1900 - 1917

249/15/6
Correspondence - Davis, Hardee, Jones and others, 1900 - 1917

249/15/7
Correspondence - Davis, Hardee, Jones and others, 1900 - 1917


249/15/8
Correspondence - Davis, Hardee, Jones and others, 1900 - 1917
 
249/15/9

Correspondence - Davis, Hardee, Jones and others, 1900 - 1917


249/15/10
Correspondence - Davis, Hardee, Jones and others, 1900 - 1917
 
249/15/11

Correspondence from John R. Hardee (J.H.R) to Ella C. Davis (E.C.D.), 1906


249/15/12

Correspondence J.H.R. to E.C.D., 1906-1907


249/15/13

Correspondence J.H.R. to E.C.D., 1907

249/15/14
Correspondence J.H.R. to E.C.D., 1907

249/15/15
State Port Pilot, article mentions Lewis J. Hardee Jr.

249/16/1
Correspondence J.H.R. to E.C.D., 1907


249/16/2

Correspondence J.H.R. to E.C.D., 1907

249/16/3
Assorted correspondence and bills/checks 1870s.
Correspondence from Jeff Davis, 1956


249/16/4

Articles and information pertaining to St. Mary's in Georgia


249/16/5

Handwritten memories, maps of Crandall, Florida


249/16/6

"Crandall Remembered," from Fernandina Beach News-Leader, June 1975

Article on one room schoolhouse in Crandall, April, 1980
Various News clippings


249/16/7

History of Fernandina Beach
Isle of Eight Flags, Fernandina folklore
 
249/16/8

Early histories of Amelia Island, 1970s


249/16/9

Correspondence J.H.R. to E.C.D., 1918

Poem, Memories of The A.C.F.
College
Excerpts from autobiography of Ella C. Davis Hardee

249/16/10

Tribute to Ella D. Hardee on her 90th birthday, 1972

Memories and anecdotes of Ella Hardee
Correspondence from Ella to her children describing travels and life

249/16/11

Remembrances of her life: items of Ella D. Hardee


249/16/12

Remembrances of family members at Family Reunion, 1972

249/16/13
Articles referring to Fernandina, Isle of Eight Flags
Travel information about Nassau County, Florida

249/16/14
Newspaper clippings on Amelia Island 1972

249/17/1
Children of John R. Hardee: Content Hardee Partin


249/17/2
Children of John R. Hardee: Rosemary Humphrey Hardee, Annie Alline Hardee, Noble Hardee


249/17/3

Lewis J. Hardee; shrimping, Fish Industry


249/17/4

Dorothy D. Hardee: sheet music. 2 calendars with notes 1987 and 1989


249/17/5

Mary Allen (Molly) Hardee
Cecil Marvin Hardee, Elizabeth Hardee Steele, Carol Hardee Anderson

249/17/6

Howard Davis Hardee, M.D. References to the Congo
A Daddy's Memories of The Congo, 1950

249/17/7

Lewis A. Davis; Correspondence to Mollie and others


249/17/8

Lewis A. Davis correspondence

249/17/9
Lewis A. Davis correspondence


249/17/10

Lewis A. Davis correspondence


249/17/11

Lewis A. Davis typed copies of handwritten letters


249/18/1
Correspondence from Lewis J. Hardee referring to search of family history


249/18/2

Correspondence from Lewis J. Hardee referring to search of family history
 

249/18/3

Correspondence from Lewis J. Hardee referring to search of family history
 

249/18/4

Libraries and archives, including addresses


249/18/5

Libraries and archives research materials
Lewis A. Davis

249/18/6

Correspondence (original) 1880s

249/18/7
Correspondence (originals) 1880s


249/18/8

Correspondence (originals) 1880s/1890s


249/18/9
Correspondence (originals) 1880s/1890s

249/18/10
Record and Memo books, funeral director bill, and letters


249/18/11

More records and memos

249/19/1
Correspondence between Lewis Hardee and Library Director Sherman Hayes re: gifts, 2004 and 2006

249/19/2
New York Sun articles reviewing Lewis Hardee's books Classic Southport Cooking and The Lambs Theatre Club, 2006

249/19/3
The Lambs brochure

249/19/4
100 Years of Art in Southport, DVD and VHS copies
Professor Hardee's Magic Lantern Show, DVD and VHS copies

Addition 1
September 2009

249/20/1
Hardee,William Joseph. Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics:
for the Exercise and Manoeuvres of Troops When Acting as Light Infantry or Riflemen. Richmond, Va.: J.W. Randolph 1861

249/20/2
Ledger. Constitution and minutes of the Brunswick Camp of the United Confederate Veterans. May 24, 1911 – May 25, 1918. Contains typed minutes glued into ledger and handwritten minutes.

249/20/3
Letter, Lewis Hardee to Carol Hardee Anderson, January 11, 1985.

249/20/4
Letter, Dorothy Dosher Hardee to Carol Hardee Anderson, June 14, 1989.

249/20/5
List of Memorials to Ella Davis Hardee.

249/20/6
Typed genealogy of Hardee Family. Author unknown, perhaps Howard Davis Hardee.
Photocopy of Hardee Genealogy.

COPYRIGHT:  Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.