James Iredell, Sr. (1751-1799) Papers, PC.625
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- James Iredell, Sr. (1751-1799) Papers
- Call Number
- PC.625
- Creator
- Unknown
- Date
- 1770-1798, 1829
- Repository
- State Archives of North Carolina
Collection Overview
Papers of Iredell, Edenton lawyer and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1790-1799). His diary, kept while a customs official and law student (Aug., 1770; Nov.-Feb., 1773-1774), describes his life in Edenton, his reading, his thoughts, and such events as a smallpox epidemic. The diary and early letters in this collection have been published in Don Higginbotham (ed.), The Papers of James Iredell, 1767-1783, 2 vols. (Raleigh, 1976), including letters from Iredell to Speaker John Harvey about Regulators (1770) and to Thomas Burke (1777, 1781), and from Chief Justice Martin Howard and Gov. Josiah Martin to Iredell (1773-1774). Other letters are from Archibald Maclaine on ratification of the Constitution and from Samuel Johnston on actions of the General Assembly (1788); a typed copy of Iredell's notification of appointment as associate justice (1790); and Iredell's copies of his letters, one to President Washington from the judges at U.S. Circuit Court, District of North Carolina, concerning the Pension Act and separation of powers (1792), and one describing New England (1792). Also printed court decision (1798), and invitation for Congressman James Iredell, Jr., to a railroad demonstration (1829). See also P.C. 67. Other papers of James Iredell, Sr., are in the Southern Historical Collection, UNC, and the Manuscript Dept., Duke University Library.