D. J. Harrill Collection, PC.1202

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D. J. Harrill Collection, PC.1202

Descriptive Summary

Title
D. J. Harrill Collection
Call Number
PC.1202
Creator
Unknown
Date
1802-1841
Repository
State Archives of North Carolina

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    Collection Overview

    Letters to Edenton merchant Edmund Haskins concerning debts of a New York firm, with comments on business failures there (1802); and to William W. Birth, civil engineer of Washington, D.C., including two from Beverly Daniel asking Birth to return to the project of rebuilding the State Capitol and describing David Paton and progress being made (1835), and one from Weston R. Gales about his father Joseph Gales, need for civil engineers in the South, and arrest of William Nichols, Jr., on charge of slave stealing (1841).

    Contents of the Collection

    Subject Headings

  1. Harrill, D. J.
  2. Haskins, Edmund
  3. Birth, William W.
  4. Daniel, Beverly
  5. Paton, David
  6. Gales, Weston R.
  7. Gales, Joseph
  8. Nichols, William, Jr.
  9. North Carolina State Capitol (Raleigh, N.C.)
  10. Merchants
  11. Debtor and creditor
  12. Business
  13. Engineers
  14. Slaves
  15. African Americans
  16. Stealing
  17. Civil engineers
  18. Public buildings
  19. Architecture
  20. Buildings
  21. Arrest
  22. Edenton (N.C.)
  23. New York (N.Y.)
  24. Washington (D.C.)