Also represented is Robert W. McNeely, son of William Spruce Macay's widow, Mildred Ann Hunt Macay, and her second husband, William G. McNeely. 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.
Correspondence is primarily about family affairs.
In addition, there is material concerning the naval service of Robert W. McNeely, including letters describing his trips to the Azores, the British Isles, the Caribbean, Greece, the Mediterranean, Palestine, and Turkey, and letters from Cuba during the Spanish-American War. There are also letters of Robert's wife Marie Calhoun Butler McNeely, who travelled with him to posts in the Orient, 1902-1908, and wrote of her experiences there. Volumes include a lawyer's fee book, 1759-1774, and Rowan County plantation, merchant, and household accounts and slave records beginning in 1791. Claims against decedents' estates. Confederate States of America.