Thomas Addison Emmet Collection, PC.38
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Thomas Addison Emmet Collection
- Call Number
- PC.38
- Creator
- Unknown
- Date
- 1757-1847
- Repository
- State Archives of North Carolina
Collection Overview
Bound typed copies of 128 letters and papers relating to North Carolina in the Emmet Manuscripts, New York Public Library, including deeds, estate papers, petitions, a resolution of the Second Provincial Congress with 67 signatures approving the nonimportation association (1775), and Thomas Burke's notes on the debates of the Continental Congress (Feb.-Mar., 1777). Early letters are from Gov. Arthur Dobbs (1757), from the Committee of Correspondence (1774), from John Williams in Kentucky (1775), and from Joseph Hewes, William Hooper, Thomas Burke, John Penn, Cornelius Harnett, and Willie Jones as congressional delegates in Philadelphia. There are messages from Gov. Richard Caswell to the General Assembly (1777), items concerning loyalists, and letters about schools in Granville Co. (1778) and Mecklenburg Co. (1779). Reports on the British in Georgia (1778-1779) are from Joseph Lane, John Ashe, John Rutledge and others and include a description of the surrender of Ft. Morris and a list of prisoners. Also a British letter about a Creek raid on the rebels, 1782. Relating to military action and defenses in the Carolinas, 1779-1781, are letters from Joseph Hewes, John Baptista Ashe, Nathanael Greene, Gov. Abner Nash to Governor-elect Thomas Burke on details of the government, William Hooper on the capture of his family and property by the British, Waightstill Avery, Richard Caswell, Allen Jones, Jethro Sumner, Horatio Gates, W. R. Davie, Alexander Lillington, Willie Jones, and others. Several papers relate to Norfolk in 1776, Virginia troops in North Carolina, and Virginia's responsibility for defense (Gov. Thomas Jefferson, 1780). Postwar letters include Josiah Martin (1784) on a loyalist claim; William Hooper to James Iredell (1785-1786) on the courts; two letters about ratification of the U. S. Constitution; Richard Dobbs Spaight to the governor of Massachusetts (1794) about the enticement of slaves and to Jacob Reed on French depredations (1797); Benjamin Hawkins on the Tennessee Indians (1797); William Polk on the Mecklenburg Declaration (1819); and D. L. Swain on North Carolina records (1847). Other correspondents include John Butler, William Davidson, Patrick Henry, Samuel Johnston, Nathaniel Macon, Griffith Rutherford, John Steele, and Hugh Williamson.