Governor's Papers -- Thomas Bragg (9 November 1810 -- 21 January 1872), SR.339

Scope and Content:

Correspondence, recommendations, resignations, affidavits, petitions, reports, receipts of documents, and bills for loading materials from the administration of Governor Thomas Bragg.

Correspondence (1855-1858) refers to militia elections, militia arms, elections, internal improvements, eastern terminus of the railroad at Sheppard's Point, slave crimes, sentencing of criminals, requests for remission of sentences, the Revised Codes of North Carolina, and weights and measures.

Reports are from a meeting of the Stockholders of Fayetteville and Western Plank Road Company, a meeting of the Cape Fear and Deep River Navigation Company, progress on the Revised Codes of North Carolina, and common schools.

Arrangement:

Chronological.

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• •  Correspondence, Petitions, etc.
  GP.138, GP.139

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• •  Correspondence, Petitions, etc.
  GP.140, GP.141

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• •  Correspondence, Petitions, etc.
  GP.142, GP.143

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• •  Correspondence, Petitions, etc.
  GP.144, GP.145

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Scope and Content:

Letter books from the administration of Governor Thomas Bragg containing copies of correspondence, oaths of office, recommendations, appointments, resignations, affidavits, petitions, remissions of sentences, pardons, proclamations, commissions, invoices, reports, and letters of transmittal of materials.

Correspondence (1855-1858) refers to militia elections, militia arms, requests for blank commissions, elections, loans from the Literary Fund, internal improvements, money for internal improvements, the Western Turnpike, the organization of the Western North Carolina Railroad Company, subscription for the Centre Plank Road, stock of Cape Fear and Deep River Navigation Company, Cherokee lands, Cherokees' citizenship rights, aiding fugitive slaves, punishment of free blacks who committed crimes (including sending one to Liberia), punishment of criminal slaves, whites who stole and sold slaves, and fear of a slave uprising. Other correspondence mentions the Thanksgiving holiday; finding gold and copper in Stokes County; establishing a town site in Madison County; the possibility of establishing a marine hospital either at Beaufort or Wilmington; establishing a military academy; female education in the town of Hookerton; tax support for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Institution and the Insane Asylum; the boundary between Tennessee and North Carolina; claims of Tennessee from the Revolution; examining the archives of other states and England; and slaveholders in Kansas.

Other materials include letters from job-seekers, recommendations, appointments, resignations, commissions, petitions referring to criminal sentencing, remission of sentences, pardons, and requests for extradition. Also included are monthly reports of Western Turnpike toll gates, invoices for printing the revised codes, messages to the General Assembly, and a proclamation about the suffrage amendment for free white men twenty-one years of age.

Arrangement:

Chronological.

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• •  Letter Book
  GLB.43

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• •  Letter Book
  GLB.44

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