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State Archives of North Carolina (29) |
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State Records (14) Foreign Archives (8) Private Collections (6) County Records (1) |
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State Government (14) Foreign Government (8) Person (7) |
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1700 - 1799 (27) |
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1700 - 1799 (25) 1800 - 1899 (3) |
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Collection (6) |
1769 - 1788
Creator Entity: Penn, John, 1740 or 1741-1788
Papers of Penn, Granville Co. lawyer, member of the N.C. Board of War, delegate to the Continental Congress (1775-1779) and signer of the Declaration of Independence, including letter (Feb., 1776) from Penn in Philadelphia to Thomas Person about British ...
1788
Creator Entity: Mitchell, Thornton W.
Recorded Copy Reference: WB-2/81 (WB = WillBook) Original: AR (The original will is in the North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.) Location where will was filed and probated: Granville County
Creator Entity: Office of State Comptroller
Volume and Page References:
Volume:B; Page:12
Volume:C; Page:146
Volume:C; Page:75
Volume:C; Page:83
Volume:IX; Page:37; Folio:4
Volume:IX; Page:66; Folio:2
Volume:IX; Page:70; Folio:1
Volume:VI; Page:58; ...
Parent Records:
Treasurer's and Comptroller's Papers
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Military Papers: Revolutionary War Army Accounts
1795
Creator Entity: Great Britain. Treasury
"A List of Debts due . . . at the Todd's Warehouse Store . . ." owing since before the Revolution. Includes debt of John Penn of Caroline County who went off to Carolina and died there, leaving a good estate, son William, King William County, heir; John ... Parent Records:
British Records
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Treasury. Board Papers. American Loyalist Claims. (T 79, selections)
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Claimants' Papers. (T 79/4)
1799
Creator Entity: Great Britain. Treasury
Additional debts due to the store in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, owing since the American Revolution. Includes John Penn, Granville County, North Carolina. [Undated.]
1799
Creator Entity: Great Britain. Treasury
Debtors to the company since before the Revolution. Contains names of a number of Granville County debtors, though not identified as such, including one John Penn.
1757 - 1847
Creator Entity: Emmet, Thomas Addison
Bound typed copies of 128 letters and papers relating to North Carolina in the Emmet Manuscripts, New York Public Library, including deeds, estate papers, petitions, a resolution of the Second Provincial Congress with 67 signatures approving the ...
1766
Creator Entity: Great Britain. Colonial Office
Announces the introduction into the House of Commons of a bill to repeal the Stamp Act.
1767
Creator Entity: Great Britain. Colonial Office
In order to prevent a rupture of relations between the northern tribes and the colonies because of unpunished and unrestrained white encroachment on Indian land, Gage recommends that the governors pass and strictly enforced laws protecting Indians and ...
Parent Records:
British Records
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Colonial Office. America and West Indies: Entry Books of Letters, Instructions, Commissions, Warrants, Etc., Board of Trade and Secretary of State. (CO 5/188-272, selections)
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Military Despatches. (CO 5/233)
1770
Creator Entity: Great Britain. Colonial Office
In response to complaints by the Six Nations (the Iroquois League) of having been mistreated and abused by Indian traders and white settlers in the frontier, it is the opinion of the Crown that the respective provincial governments are responsible for ...
Parent Records:
British Records
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Colonial Office. America and West Indies, Original Correspondence, Board of Trade and Secretary of State. (CO 5/1-187, selections)
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Secretary of State: Indian Affairs, Surveys, Etc. (CO 5/71)
1753
Creator Entity: Great Britain. Colonial Office
General topics: considerable sums raised through the tobacco hogshead duty; unrest among the Twightwees (Miami) and their threat to the Indian trade; Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Penn's application to fix the borders of Pennsylvania; Crown ...
Parent Records:
British Records
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Colonial Office. America and West Indies: Virginia, Entry Books of Letters, Commissions, Instructions, Charters, Warrants, Patents, Grants, Etc. (CO 5/1354-1375, selections)
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Commissions, Instructions, Board of Trade Correspondence. (CO 5/1367)
1767
Creator Entity: Great Britain. Colonial Office
Governors to devise a plan to remove and effectively prosecute all persons guilty of settling illegally on Indian lands. Plan to be executed to thwart a potential war between the Indians and settlers. Enclosed in Gage to Shelburne, 22 January 1768 ...
Parent Records:
British Records
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Colonial Office. America and West Indies, Original Correspondence, Board of Trade and Secretary of State. (CO 5/1-187, selections)
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Secretary of State, Military Despatches. (CO 5/86)
1773 - 1810
Creator Entity: Hooper, William, 1742-1790
Papers relating to Hooper, lawyer, legislator from New Hanover and Orange counties, and delegate to Continental Congress (1774-1777), including letter from Commissary General Joseph Trumbull describing the siege of Boston (Mar., 1776); one concerning ...
1769 - 1794
Creator Entity: Burke, Thomas, approximately 1747-1783
Papers of Burke, physician, lawyer, member of provincial congress from Orange Co. (1775-1776), delegate to Continental Congress (1777-1781), and governor (1781-1782). An early letter book (1769-1774) and a few letters concern legal cases and personal ...
8 child records
1733 - 1790
Creator Entity: Caswell, Richard, 1729-1789
Papers of Caswell of Kinston, delegate to Continental Congress (1774-1776), major general of the state militia (1780-1781), and governor (1776-1780, 1785-1787), including journal of trip by Caswell to Philadelphia for first Continental Congress ...
24 child records