Record Series and Collections

1774

Recorded Copy Reference: WB-1/27 (WB = WillBook)

Original: AR (The original will is in the North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.)

Location where will was filed and probated: Surry County

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1815

Recorded Copy Reference: Orig. Only

Original: AR (The original will is in the North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.)

Location where will was filed and probated: Granville County

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1796

Bondsman: James Paschal Witness: Step. Sneed

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1735

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1734 - 1735

A bill for L83 was drawn by Rev. John Boyd of N.C., payable to James Buchanan, dated Virginia, 24 Sept 1734; SPG agrees to pay it.

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1821

Proposing regulations in the issuing of Life Certificates to prevent fraud. [Enclosed in 21.111.73.1.43.]

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1821

Enclosing [letter from James Buchanan to S.R. Lushington. See 21.111.73.1.44.]

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1850 - 1867

Correspondence of Hale, editor of the Fayetteville Observer (1825-1865), leading Whig paper in North Carolina and voice of the Conservative party and Governor Vance during the Civil War. Correspondence includes letters, often confidential, from ...

1859

This letter of 1859 from President Buchanan to Congressman Lawrence O'Bryan Branch concerns the schedule during his approaching visit to North Carolina in June of that year.

1994

Photograph of James Buchanan taken from page 85 of DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN PORTRAITS (New York: Dover Publications, 1967).

1757 - 1864

Papers of the family of Frederick Nash (1781-1858), Orange Co. legislator, judge, N.C. Supereme Court justice (1844-1858) and chief justice (1852-1858). Correspondence, much undated, concerns family affairs, a defendant at Wilkes Co. Superior Court ...

1770 - 1895

Papers of Nancy Haywood Blount Branch and her husband Lawrence O'Bryan Branch (1820-1862) of Raleigh, Democratic congressman (1855-1862) and Confederate general. Early Blount and Branch family correspondence (1833-1848) includes letters from UNC, ...

1759

Wm. Gordon and Hugh Millikin of Port Glasgow, Colin Dunlop and George Buchanan of Glasgow, and Jas. Buchanan of London. Importing tar, turpentine, oil of turpentine, reed canes, indigo, and staves.

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1784 - 1787

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1783 - 1924

Correspondence and papers of Walter Clark, editor and historian, judge of N.C. superior court and supreme court, chief justice of the latter (1902-1924), including Civil War letters from friends and family, a militia commission for his father Brig. Gen. ...