Archibald Maclaine (d. 1791) Papers, PC.719

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Archibald Maclaine (d. 1791) Papers, PC.719

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Title
Archibald Maclaine (d. 1791) Papers
Call Number
PC.719
Creator
Unknown
Date
1783-1790
Repository
State Archives of North Carolina

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    Collection Overview

    Letters from Maclaine, Wilmington lawyer, legislator (1775-1777, 1782-1787), member of Constitutional Convention of 1788, and friend of many loyalists, to his son-in-law George Hooper, Charleston merchant, and to Edward Jones concerning British blockade of ports, rumors of peace, beginnings of postal service, confiscation of loyalist property, state politics, prohibition of guns on Baldhead Island, and issues producing conflict between federal and state governments (1790). References are made to James Iredell, Charles Johnson, Samuel Johnston, Henry E. McCulloh, and Samuel Ashe. Other letters from Maclaine are in the Southern Historical Collection, UNC.

    Contents of the Collection

    Subject Headings

  1. Maclaine, Archibald
  2. Hooper, George
  3. Jones, Edward
  4. Iredell, James
  5. Johnston, Samuel
  6. McCulloh, Henry Eustace
  7. Ashe, Samuel
  8. Lawyers
  9. Legislators
  10. British
  11. American Loyalists
  12. Merchants
  13. Peace
  14. Real property
  15. Confiscations
  16. Practical Politics
  17. Gun Control
  18. Harbor
  19. Blockades
  20. Constitutional Conventions
  21. Delegates
  22. Postal Service
  23. Wilmington (N.C.)
  24. Baldhead Island
  25. Charleston (S.C.)
  26. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
  27. United States--Politics and government