CSA 3, 2¢ green pair - rare double circular rate (small faults), tied double strike of neat blue RALEIGH N.C. double-circle datestamp, on legal-size circular wrapper cut-down to 4 ¾” x 7 ¼”. Addressed to Miss Annie Pettigrew, Haywood, Chatham County, NC. Mounted on David L. Burton album page. SCV $5,000. LL $1,100.

William S. Pettigrew (1818-1900) was the Episcopalian minister and plantation owner who owned Haywood Plantation. Four generations of the white Pettigrew family and the people enslaved by them carved three plantations out of the swampy lands between Lake Phelps and the Scuppernong River in Washington and Tyrrell counties, N.C. Annie Pettigrew was his sister. William was also brother to Brig. Gen. James Johnston Pettigrew, known by family and friends as Johnston. Johnston was killed July 15, 1863, while serving as rear guard for Gen. R.E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.