Record Series and Collections

1863 - 1928

This is the first series of the Joseph John Jackson Papers. During the Civil War, Governor Vance had purchased cotton in various counties to be sold on the state's account. In the summer and autumn of 1865 and again in 1866 Joseph John Jackson was ...

1869

Recorded Copy Reference: RB-35/40 (RB = Record Book.)

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

Location where will was filed and probated: Wake County

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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 ...

1803 - 1880

Papers of Reid, Rockingham Co. Democrat, postmaster, state senator, congressman, governor (1851-1854), and U.S. senator. Most of the correspondence is political, touching almost every prominent issue of the time including free manhood suffrage, ...

1866 - 1998

Photograph shows a printed letter from Governor Jonathan Worth to the Sheriff of Harnett County, North Carolina, requesting the number of arms and legs lost (in service of the State in the late war), 5 February 1866.

1762 - 1919

1763 - 1895

Papers of Swain, Buncombe Co. jurist, legislator, governor (1832- 1835), UNC president (1835-1867), and founding member of the North Carolina Historical Society, including letters from business associates D. L. Barringer and Nicholas W. Woodfin and ...

1770 - 1910

Papers of John D. Whitford, New Bern businessman and mayor (1853-1854), president of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad Company (1854-1867), delegate to state Conventions of 1861 and 1865, and Confederate ordnance and transportation officer. ...

1759 - 1947

Papers of Colonel Heck of Raleigh, mainly concerning his business interests with Kemp P. Battle, Marmaduke J. Hawkins, A. B. Andrews, B. P. Williamson, Charles M. McGhee, and father-in-law Martin B. Callendine of Monongalia Co., W. Va. Correspondence, ...

1735 - 1966

Papers of the families of John McNeill of Cumberland Co., and of John W. and James P. Hodges of Cumberland and Harnett counties, including grants, deeds, will, estate settlements, slave bill of sale (1772), lists of slaves, letters from relatives in ...

1705 - 1910

Papers relating to Major Bledsoe of Wake Co., lawyer, legislator, and chairman of the board of the State Insane Asylum, including Wake Co. deeds (1846-1897), slave bills of sale (1855-1863), receipts and discharge for slaves working on fortifications at ...

1849 - 1886

Papers of Major Bagley (1833-1886), newspaper editor, legislator, private secretary and son-in-law of Gov. Jonathan Worth, and clerk of North Carolina Supreme Court (1868-1886). Bagley's letter book (1869-1882) contains replies to lawyers and local ...

1787 - 1920

Papers of Henry T. Clark of Edgecombe Co., speaker of the state Senate (1858-1861) and governor (1861-1862). Clark's scrapbooks include clippings on reorganization of state troops (1861-1862), listing of officers and men with notes added by Clark on ...

1855 - 1856

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1785 - 1953

Boxes of Officials' Bonds contain the following records: Constables, 1787, 1788, 1790-1814, 1822-1874; bridges, 1830, 1832, 1835; chairman of board of superintendents of common schools (Jonathan Worth, 1843-1859; clerks and masters in equity, 1829-1868; ...

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