Record Series and Collections

1904 - 1923

Photocopies of letters from Porter, short-story writer from Greensboro, writing in New York to R. H Davis of the Frank A. Munsey Company about his work and need for advances on stories, and to "Miss Sally" of Asheville, C. Alphonso Smith, and others ...

1858 - 1926

Typewritten copies of affidavits (1858) about the birthplace of President Andrew Jackson; copies of the Congressional Record (1922, 1926) containing speeches on the same subject; and newspaper article by Archibald Henderson on the Avery-Jackson duel. ...

1781 - 1927

Contemporary copy of letter from Washington describing surrender at Yorktown of Cornwallis's army to the American army and the British ships to Count de Grasse, with estimate of prisoners and weapons captured and summary of terms given (1781); letter ...

1797

Recorded Copy Reference: WB-D/48 (WB = WillBook)

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

Location where will was filed and probated: Mecklenburg County

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1853

Recorded Copy Reference: WB-19/242 (WB = WillBook)

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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Volume and Page References: Volume:30; Page:35

1850 - 1851

This map is the plat of a survey by Charles R. Barney and Upton Bruce Gwynn under the direction of Walter Gwynn (1802-1882) as chief engineer showing the proposed route of the North Carolina Railroad in Rowan County and the location of the right of way ...

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1788 - 1898

Typescript U.S. centennial celebration address (1876) delivered at Oxford in Granville Co. by editor and critic Theodore B. Kingsbury, together with his 111-page expansion of that address containing military, political, religious, and educational ...

1756 - 1942

Papers and scrapbooks of Heriot Clarkson, Charlotte lawyer, legislator, and North Carolina supreme court justice (1923-1942). There is much material on Charlotte and Mecklenburg Co. politics and on state and local Democratic organizations, some ...

1926

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1873 - 1919

Papers of Joyner, educator and superintendent of public instruction (1902-1919), consisting chiefly of correspondence. Personal correspondence with friends, relatives such as N. J. Rouse of Kinston, and business acquaintances concerns his farms near ...

1724 - 1932

Papers of Joseph B. Cheshire, Jr., lawyer, historian, author, are chiefly correspondence from his ministry in the Episcopal church as deacon (Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill, 1878-1880); rector (St. Paul's Church, Carlotte, 1881-1893); and bishop of ...

1935

Photocopy of page from James Boone family Bible, giving birth dates of Daniel Boone's Pennsylvania cousins, and information about Boone's family copied from old diary. Also newspaper articles about Boone (1935), one by Archibald Henderson.1 ...

1786

Alexander McLachlan and Archibald Falconer for Archibald Henderson, James Gordon, Henry Riddell, Alexander Law, and John Campbell, Junior. Exporting tobacco out of the Young, John Wyllie, Master, from North Carolina.

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1773 - 1890

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