Abstracted three small Collections this trip and just sent Guy the Shirley Kilpatrick Collection which is mostly Lenoir and will be posted on Lenoir Archives. For the first time, there were deeds for my own direct line with information I did not already know. Had always thought my Lemuel Hardy Mewborn only lived in Pitt, but he may have lived in Lenoir for awhile right next to our Moore family property. The other two Collections are the Murphrey and Loftin Collections. The Murphrey probably should be called Murphrey/Taylor Collection and is a rather large Collection but most of the deeds are Craven. I only abstracted the Lenoir ones since Craven has their records. It is the Guilford Murphrey and Stanton Taylor families. The Loftin Collection is at the Carteret Co Historical Association and is not available to the public at this point since they are in the process of moving into their new FANTASTIC building. There are at least 40 small boxes of information and I only went through 4 of them. Jack thinks this is all with old papers, but I think there are more since don't remember seeing the document Roger did for PCFR Quarterly. The only Loftin information I saw was the Preston Loftin Bible. There are Craven, Wayne and mostly Pitt documents - I only abstracted the Lenoir ones since Roger is working the Pitt deeds. There are hundreds of receipts and two wills - the Susan Harper Will of Pitt and a partial copied will of Simon Bright IV, I assume of Lenoir. Both of these will be posted. The vast majority of information is for the Pugh and Laughinghouse families of Swift Creek, Grifton area. Since the Pugh family is mine, found it of great interest, but nothing new as I recall. There is also one old Bryan deed which gives me personal circumstantial evidence - minor that it is - that Elizabeth Bryan Pugh, wife of Hugh Pugh Jr, was indeed the daughter of Lewis Bryan as I have thought. Be next week before the other two get typed up and sent to Guy. Roger also let me go through his notebook with his notes on Supreme Court Cases. Had done some of it several years ago but that was before I was interested in any local family. Now just to find time for extensive work at the NC Archives in the Supreme Court Cases. He said the NC Reports books he got them out of are the ones at ECU and there are many NC Reports by different companies so this is going to be a bit of a problem in trying to match them up, Many thanks Roger!!! If any of you are in Morehead after Veterans Day, please take the time to go by the Carteret Co Historical Society's new museum - it is indeed first class and I look forward to seeing it once it is open. My thanks to Jack Goodwin, the full time, unpaid, director who pulled these boxes out of storage for us to look through. My sister and I spent a day at the Duplin Co Courthouse - the quiet in that town is overwhelming. We also had the opportunity to meet Dr. Dallas Herring who sang the praises of Sloan. Need to have time to go back and get in his files. Got some Sutton and Rouse information - not sure how helpful it is going to be yet. Martha