John Haywood (1755 - 1827)

Born 23 Feb 1755 in Edgecombe, North Carolina

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Died 18 Nov 1827 at age 72 in Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

John Haywood (born Edgecombe County, North Carolina, February 23, 1754; died Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, November 18, 1827) was an American politician, who was the longest-serving North Carolina State Treasurer (forty years, from 1787 until his death).

Obituary:^[1]
DIED, …on Sunday morning, in the 73d year of his age, JOHN HAYWOOD, Esq. Public Treasurer of the State, which office he has filled for the long term of 41 years, with unwearied devotion and a faithful discharge of its important duties, for which a parallel can scarcely be found. Our peculiar situation, at this period, and our limited time for publication, prevent us from doing justice to the character of this most excellent man. We trust some abler pen will at an early day, furnish us an obituary notice, worthy to be recorded as a lasting memorial of his illustrious character. We cannot, however, let the present short opportunity pass without a brief, but imperfect tribute to his worth, as we have known and felt its influence.—“Our good old Treasurer,” (a term for a few years most affectionately applied to him by those who knew him and as a consequence loved him) was distinguished alike by his active and passive virtues. His charitable hand was ever extended to the indigent and distressed—his benevolent heart ever open to commiserate the afflicted, sympathise with the sufferer and rejoice with those who had cause for rejoicing. His tenderness to his family and his urbanity to all with whom he had intercourse, was proverbial. His forbearance and forgiveness of injuries were in him distinguished virtues…yet few men had so little to forgive on that score, so universally was he beloved. “Goodness and he fill no one monument,” and long will that life be, “who sees his like again.”

BURIAL^[2]
Oakwood Cemetery
Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina

Sources

1. ↑ Published in Raleigh Register and North-Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, North Carolina), Tuesday, November 20, 1827, p. 3.
2. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14004923/john-haywood

• Wikipedia:John Haywood
• Samuel A. Ashe, ed., Biographical History of North Carolina, vol. 6 (1907).
• Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, 2 vols. (1907–12).
• William K. Boyd, History of North Carolina, vol. 2 (1919).
• General Assembly, Session Laws of North Carolina (1794–95, 1828–29). Manuscript sources in North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh: Records, Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Wake County.
• Treasurers' and Comptrollers' Papers.
• Wills of Wake County.