John Heritage Bryan (1798-1870) Collection, PC.6

[Identification of item], PC.6, John Heritage Bryan Collection, Private Collections, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.

Papers of Bryan, New Bern lawyer, legislator, and Whig congressman (1825-1829). Correspondence chiefly reflects social life in towns and plantations of eastern North Carolina (1820s-1860s), primarily in New Bern and Raleigh, and also at UNC (1803-1863), Hillsborough Academy, Lovejoy's Academy (Raleigh), and Virginia Military Institute. Out-of-state letters describe life in Washington (D.C.), New York City, Philadelphia, Buffalo Springs (Va.), Baltimore, New Orleans, Alabama, Missouri, and Europe. Political letters include reports on the legislature and Congress, particularly from Congressman Bryan, his relatives Charles Shepard, William B. Shepard, and Ebenezer Pettigrew, and friends such as Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr., and William H. Washington (1820s-1840s), with comments on debates, on individuals such as John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, William Crawford, Edward Everett, and Nathaniel Macon, and on issues including the tariff, the U.S. Bank, nullification, and internal improvements. Bryan's business papers concern the Rockfish Manufacturing Company at Fayetteville (cotton textiles), 1839-1864; mining; and banking. Many routine letters about lawsuits are from lawyers such as Asa Biggs, William A. Graham, and W. W. Holden. Other frequent subjects are the Episcopal church; Civil War conditions in Raleigh, Hillsborough, Chapel Hill, Rocky Mount, Richmond, and Alabama; postwar conditions; and experiences of George Pettigrew Bryan at UNC and as lieutenant and captain, Co. G, 19th Regt. NCT (2nd Regt. N.C. Cavalry), at New Bern and Kinston and in federal hospitals (1856-1863).

Bryan's legal files (ca. 1820-1860) concern cases in eastern and piedmont county courts and some in U.S. District Courts, Admiralty Court, the North Carolina Supreme Court, and courts in Alabama and New York, involving Otway Burns, William Gaston, John Gray Blount, and others and including court papers, copies of clients' wills, estate papers, deeds, and plats. There are also wills, deeds, a land grant, and reminiscences relating to the Bryan, Blount, Shepard, Heritage, and Frank families; and mercantile and shipping accounts and correspondence of James Jasper, Hyde Co. (1783-1796), and James Bryan, New Bern (1794-1804), trading to West Indies and northern ports. Miscellaneous papers include some relating to Revolutionary War claims, the collection of customs at Ocracoke (1823-1825) and the excise tax in Johnston and Wayne counties (1814), book lists, invitations to political meetings, and a Gaston County common schools report (1853). Printed items include a list of vessels in American and British navies in 1813; political broadsides, one by Thomas Hart Benton against Andrew Jackson (n.d.); open letters to constituents by Bryan and other North Carolina congressmen; speeches; plans for dredging Pamlico Sound and and draining Lake Mattamuskeet; map of Ocracoke Island (n.d.); and a committee report to the Internal Improvements Convention, Raleigh, 1838. Correspondents not mentioned above include Rufus Barringer, William Gaston, Joseph B. Hinton, and Henry Potter. Other Bryan family papers are in the Manuscripts Dept., Perkins Library, Duke University.

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• •  DS_191202015 (6 files, 395 MB)
  DS_191202015

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• •  Volume I Mounted Papers
  PC.6.01

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• •  Correspondence
  PC.6.15

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• •  George Pettigrew Bryan Scrapbook
  PC.6.16

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• •  Miscellaneous Estates Papers (inventories, enslaved people, surveys, land courses, land grants, plats); Family Records (history, obituaries, estate papers, Bryan Grimes papers); Bills of Sale, promissory notes, wills, deeds, bonds, agreements
  PC.6.17-19

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• •  Accounts, bills and receipts; Broadsides, newspaper clippings, Revolutionary War items, reports, recipes, licenses, maps, miscellaneous
  PC.6.20-21

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• •  Speeches, catalogs, book lists, memo books, invitations; Court Records (U.S. District, U.S. Court of America: Protests, Admiralty, County Courts (petitions and bills of complaint), Alabama, Henry County Court, Baltimore, Court of Appeals)
  PC.6.22-23

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• •  Court Records: Trial Dockets, certificates, statements, memorandums, declarations, depositions, exhibitions, bankruptcy proceedings, court orders, answers to bills, power of attorney, answers to briefs, commissions, list of affidavits; Case notes and briefs (1820-1850)
  PC.6.24-25

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• •  Court Papers: Case notes and briefs (undated); typescripts of letters in collection
  PC.6.26-27

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• •  Typescripts of letters in collection
  PC.6.28

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• •  Volume I Mounted Papers
  PC.6.02

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• •  Volume III Mounted Papers
  PC.6.03

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• •  Volume IV Mounted Papers
  PC.6.04

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• •  Volume V Mounted Papers
  PC.6.05

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• •  Correspondence
  PC.6.06-08

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• •  Correspondence
  PC.6.09-11

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• •  Correspondence
  PC.6.12-14

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• •  Croke's Reports 1791
  Croke's Reports 1791

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• •  Croke's Reports 1792
  Croke's Reports 1792

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• •  Croke's Reports 1793
  Croke's Reports 1793

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• •  Historical Treatise Court of Chancery - Blake 1818
  Historical Treatise Court of Chance

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• •  History of Lawyers, Forsyth, 1875
  History of Lawyers, Forsyth, 1875

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• •  Cooper's Equity, 1813
  Cooper's Equity, 1813

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• •  Pothier on Maritime Contracts, 1821
  Pothier on Maritime Contracts, 1821

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• •  Clerk and Magistrate's Assistant, 1819
  Clerk and Magistrate's Assistant, 1

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• •  Decimi Junii Juvenalis, 1852
  Decimi Junii Juvenalis, 1852

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• •  Revisal of 1905, North Carolina
  Revisal of 1905, North Carolina

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John Heritage Bryan, 1798-1870

Shepard, Charles

Shepard, William B.

Spaight, Richard Dobbs, Jr.

Washington, William H.

Webster, Daniel

Everett, Edward

Macon, Nathaniel

Biggs, Asa

Graham, William A.

Holden, W. W. (William Woods), 1818-1892

Bryan, George Pettigrew

Burns, Otway

Gaston, William

Blount, John Gray

Jasper, James

Bryan, James

Benton, Thomas Hart

Jackson, Andrew

Whig Party (U.S.)

Hillsborough Academy

Lovejoy's Academy

Virginia Military Institute

Rockfish Manufacturing Company

United States Bank

Episcopal Church

Great Britain. High Court of Admiralty

North Carolina. Supreme Court

Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Cavalry Regiment, 2nd

Lawyers

Legislators

Congressmen

Towns

Plantations

Congressional Record

Debates and Debating

Tariff

Nullification

Internal improvements

Textiles

Cotton

Mines

Banks and banking

Lawsuits

Officer

Hospitals

District Courts--United States

Trading

Manners and customs

Excise Tax

Politics

Common Schools

Navies

Dredging

Drainage

New Bern (N.C.)

Raleigh (N.C.)

Washington (D.C.)

New York City (N.Y.)

Philadelphia (Pa.)

Buffalo Springs (Va.)

Baltimore (Md.)

New Orleans (La.)

Alabama

Missouri

Europe

Fayetteville (N.C.)

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

Hillsborough

Chapel Hill (N.C.)

Rocky Mount

Richmond (Va.)

Kinston (N.C.)

New York

Hyde County (N.C.)

West Indies

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783

Ocracoke Island

Johnston County (N.C.)

Wayne County (N.C.)

Gaston County (N.C.)

Pamlico Sound