Wood Jones Hamlin Papers, PC.62

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Wood Jones Hamlin Papers, PC.62

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Title
Wood Jones Hamlin Papers
Call Number
PC.62
Creator
Unknown
Date
1762-1835
Repository
State Archives of North Carolina

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    Collection Overview

    Papers of Hamlin, Halifax Co. planter, legislator (1797, 1799, 1813), including correspondence about debts, law suits, Bank of New Bern bonds, and plantation affairs, with comments on events in the General Assembly (1810, 1811, 1820, 1832), Willie P. Mangum, Nathaniel Macon, proposed removal of capital to Haywood (1831), office of the comptroller (1831), nullification, and internal improvements. Other letters describe trip to Bermuda (1796), planned visit to UNC for Fourth of July (1799), expected war (1812), a French dancing master's school (1817), obstructions to navigation in Roanoke River (1822), and Warrenton Female Academy (1826-1827). Business and legal papers include Virginia and Halifax Co. deeds and wills of John and Charles Hamlin (1768- 1807) and marriage contract for Charles Hamlin and Martha Thompson (1789). Also instructions on preparation of cocks for fighting. Correspondents include Gideon Alston, John Alston, Joseph John Alston, Willis Alston, William Archer, Blake Baker, Thomas Eaton, Joseph Gales, James Grant, Joseph Hawkins, Andrew Joyner, William Person Little, Robert Parke, Thomas Person, Thomas Tabb, and William E. Webb.

    Contents of the Collection

    Subject Headings

  1. Hamlin, Wood Jones
  2. Mangum, Willie Person, 1792-1861
  3. Macon, Nathaniel
  4. Hamlin, John
  5. Hamlin, Charles
  6. Alston, Gideon
  7. Alston, John
  8. Alston, Joseph John
  9. Alston, Willis
  10. Archer, William
  11. Baker, Blake
  12. Eaton, Thomas
  13. Gales, Joseph
  14. Grant, James
  15. Hawkins, Joseph
  16. Joyner, Andrew
  17. Little, William Person
  18. Parke, Robert
  19. Person, Thomas
  20. Tabb, Thomas
  21. Webb, William E.
  22. North Carolina. General Assembly
  23. Warrenton Female Academy
  24. Bank of New Bern
  25. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  26. Legislators
  27. Plantation Owners
  28. Debt
  29. Lawsuits
  30. Internal improvements
  31. Nullification
  32. Cockfighting
  33. Travel
  34. Voyages and Travels
  35. Dance
  36. Girls
  37. Women
  38. Nonpublic Schools
  39. Fourth of July
  40. Inland Navigation
  41. Marriage
  42. Contracts
  43. Procedure (Law)
  44. State Capitols
  45. Halifax County
  46. Virginia
  47. Bermuda
  48. Roanoke River
  49. Warrenton
  50. Haywood