Benjamin Smith (1756-1826) Papers, PC.80

[Identification of item], PC.80, Benjamin Smith Papers, Private Collections, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.

Papers of Smith, militia general, legislator, governor (1810-1811), and Brunswick Co. planter, including letter from James Robertson about Indian attacks on trans-Appalachian settlers and need for that area to be ceded to the central government (1789); and 1801 letter from Smith about his borrowing money due the university because of War Office delay in paying for his work on Ft. Johnston. Photocopies are of James Hogg's correspondence with Smith and others about Smith's debts, their transactions as shareholders in the Transylvania Com- pany, investments in bills of exchange, taxes on western lands, and the UNC Board of Trustees. Also photocopy of description of Smith's "Belvedere" plantation (n.d.).

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• •  Benjamin Smith Papers
  PC.80

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Smith, Benjamin, 1756-1826

Robertson, James

Hogg, James

Transylvania Company

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina Board of Trustees

Governors

Legislators

Generals

Universities and colleges

Plantations

Plantation Owners

Stocks

Stockholders

Investments

Indians

College trustees

Attacks

Land settlement

Forts

Taxation

Debtor and creditor

Public lands

Bills of Exchange

Western Lands

Belvedere Plantation (Brunswick County, N.C.)

Appalachian region

Brunswick County

Fort Johnston (Southport, N.C.)