Refford Cate Collection, MfP.159

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Refford Cate Collection, MfP.159

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Title
Refford Cate Collection
Call Number
MfP.159
Creator
Unknown
Date
1499-1861
Repository
State Archives of North Carolina

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    Collection Overview

    Collection of 38 letters and other documents, mostly of a routine nature, signed by Isabella I of Spain (1499), Duke of Albemarle (1662), Charles 11 (1664), George 111 (1766, 1801), Hugh Williamson (1793), Richard Caswell (1785), Andrew Jackson (1831), Andrew Johnson (1854), and others. More important items include a note from Gen. Horatio Gates at Hillsborough about lack of cavalry at Battle of Camden (Aug., 1780); and letters from James Moore at Wilmington to the provincial congress on the situation of American troops (Mar., 1776), from Thomas Burke to the General Assembly on powers of Congress (1777), from Willie Jones to Gov. Abner Nash with news of Congress and the war (1780), from Richard Dobbs Spaight to Jacob Read with personal and political news (1784), from Bedford Brown to Thomas L. Smith about persuading Daniel Webster to accept post as U.S. secretary of state (1850), and from Robert A. Toombs, Confederate secretary of state, introducing Samuel Monson as agent for purchasing military goods (1861). Also accounts of John Penn with the state (1775-1780), militia commission of Col. John Simpson of Pitt Co. (1772), and printed resolutions of the General Assembly favoring constitutional amendment on method of electing president, vice president, and congressmen (1801).

    Contents of the Collection

    Subject Headings

  1. George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
  2. Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685
  3. Isabella I, Queen of Spain
  4. Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670
  5. Williamson, Hugh
  6. Caswell, Richard
  7. Jackson, Andrew
  8. Johnson, Andrew
  9. Moore, James
  10. Burke, Thomas
  11. Jones, Willie
  12. Cate, Refford
  13. Nash, Abner
  14. Read, Jacob
  15. Brown, Bedford
  16. Webster, Daniel
  17. Gates, Horatio
  18. Smith, Thomas L.
  19. Toombs, Robert Augustus
  20. Monson, Samuel
  21. Penn, John
  22. Simpson, John
  23. United States. Congress
  24. North Carolina. General Assembly
  25. Confederate States of America. Cabinet
  26. United States. Continental Congress
  27. United States. Department of State
  28. Presidents
  29. Generals
  30. Governors
  31. Colonels
  32. Appointment to Office
  33. Militia
  34. Appointments and Retirements
  35. Constitutional amendments
  36. Political campaigns
  37. Presidential candidates
  38. Congressmen
  39. Vice Presidents
  40. Purchasing Agents
  41. Politics
  42. Battle of Camden, Camden, S.C., 1780
  43. Cavalry
  44. Provincial Conventions
  45. Congresses and conventions
  46. Command of troops
  47. Provincial Troops
  48. Secretaries
  49. Military supplies
  50. Hillsborough
  51. Wilmington (N.C.)
  52. Pitt County (N.C.)
  53. United States--Politics and government
  54. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
  55. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865