Phillipps Manuscripts, PC.1168
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Phillipps Manuscripts
- Call Number
- PC.1168
- Creator
- Unknown
- Date
- 1736-1773
- Repository
- State Archives of North Carolina
Collection Overview
Photocopies of original documents and contemporary copies relating to North Carolina, part of the Sir Thomas Phillipps Collection, Library of Congress. Included are a recommendation (1737) for disallowance of the North Carolina act for biennial assemblies; minutes of Privy Council committee hearings on complaints against Gov. Gabriel Johnston (1739), and against the North Carolina representation act of 1746; negotiations and draft of settlement between Henry McCulloh and Earl Granville (1755-1760); petition of Receiver General John Rutherfurd against his suspension by Governor Dobbs (1758); king's warrant for salary arrears to Governor Johnston, deceased (1761); deputation of office by Thomas Falkner of Norwich, England, secretary and clerk of crown for North Carolina, to Benjamin Heron of New Hanover Co., revoking previous deputation to Richard Spaight (1762); letters and other papers (1746-1773) from Gabriel Johnston, William Adair, John Rutherfurd, and Patrick Gordon relating to efforts by Adair to recover land from Henry McCulloh through chancery proceedings in North Carolina courts; order in council concerning appeal of court case over an officer's fees in the Leeward Islands (1736); and papers relating to release of Thomas Bonny of Charles Town from payment of plantation bond (1755).