About 290 items. About 125 items. Materials up to 1820 consist chiefly of legal papers and a few letters of Spruce Macay and his second wife, Elizabeth Haynes Macay. There are also materials relating to several of his children, especially his son Alfred. Papers for 1827-1856 deal chiefly with William Spruce Macay and include correspondence, legal documents, and financial papers, some relating to his brother Alfred's estate.
Correspondence is primarily about family affairs.
Material dated 1861-1865 concerns members of the Macay, McNeely, and Hunt families, and includes a few Civil War items. Indentures for sale of lands in Rowan County, N.C., to Haynes family members. Letter from William R. Davie to Spruce Macay about Macay's marriage to Fanny Henderson and other matters. Chiefly legal documents relating to sales of lands in Rowan County. Items relating chiefly to William Spruce Macay, including correspondence about family affairs, with discussion of the settlement of his brother Alfred's estate, the activities of Fanny Macay, and the desire of Spruce Macay's brother James Macay of Butts County, Ga., for William's help in moving back to North Carolina.