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Waightstill Avery letters, 1778, 1779

Title: Waightstill Avery letters 1778, 1779

American Revolutionary Patriot and North Carolina lawyer. Contains two letters. One to Capt. Archibald Weakes and the second recipient is unidentified.

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/6813 View

Lenoir family. Lenoir family papers, 1763-1936, 1969-1975 (general abstract).

Title: Lenoir family papers, 1763-1936, 1969-1975 (general abstract).

Selected series, some of which have been grouped together for convenience in online searching, have been cataloged separately. They are: Subseries 1.1. Correspondence, 1773-1839 (426 Series 1.1a; 426 Series 1.1b); Subseries 1.2. Correspondence, 1840-1860 (426 Series 1.2); Subseries 1.3. Correspondence, 1861-1865 (426 Series 1.3); Subseries 1.4. Correspondence, 1866-1890 and Subseries 1.5. Correspondence, 1891-1937 (426 Series 1.4,1.5); Series 2. Diaries and other writings, 1776-1940 (426 Series 2); Series 3.1. Household and plantation records, 1768-1929 (426 Series 3.1); Series 3.2. Legal and business records, 1765-1909 and Series 5. Financial and business volumes, 1781-1892 (426 Series 3.2,5); Series 3.3. Political and election records, 1775-1882 and Series 4. Land records (426 Series 3.3,4); and Series 6. Government records, 1776-1888 (426 Series 6).

ArchivalResource: About 13200 items (24.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31069744 View

Lenoir family. Lenoir family papers, 1763-1936, 1975 (Series 1.1.b) [manuscript].

Title: Lenoir family papers, 1763-1936, 1975 (Series 1.1.b) [manuscript].

Business letters relate chiefly to plantation management, including buying, selling, and supervising slaves; land speculation chiefly in North Carolina and Tennessee; and William Lenoir's unsuccessful attempt to retain lands confiscated from Moravians after the Revolutionary War. Family letters express the hopes and aspirations of family members relating to mates, children, careers, and living conditions. Much correspondence relates to the lives of the women of the family. Letters discuss births, marriages, and deaths; the education of male and female family members, chiefly at the Bingham School, Salem Academy, and U.N.C.; health issues, especially relating to Waightstill Avery, lawyer, legislator, and signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration; feelings towards slavery; and William Lenoir's exploits at the Battle of King's Mountain.

ArchivalResource: 13200 items (24.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31070115 View

Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891. Draper manuscripts: The Mecklenburg declaration, 1876.

Title: Draper manuscripts: The Mecklenburg declaration, 1876.

An unpublished manuscript by Lyman Draper entitled "The Mecklenburg Declaration: Its Origin, History, and Actors," which is about the North Carolina claim that the citizens of Mecklenburg County, on May 20, 1775, had adopted resolutions declaring the independence of the colony from Great Britain. This draft originated from his study of the controversy and his conclusion that the May 20 declaration was spurious. Also included within the manuscript are biographies of the delegates, certifiers, and other participants of the event; appendices include Draper's introductions and annotations of the text of papers which support his claims.

ArchivalResource: 0.6 c.f. (3 volumes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787323 View

Avery, Waightstill, 1743-1821. Draper manuscripts: North Carolina papers, 1756, 1768-1818.

Title: Draper manuscripts: North Carolina papers, 1756, 1768-1818.

Primarily papers of Waightstill Avery, a North Carolina Revolutionary patriot, an ally of the Scotch-Irish of Mecklenburg County who was a member of the committee dealing with the Mecklenburg Declaration, holder of civil and military positions during the American Revolution, North Carolina congressional delegate, participant in drafting a new state constitution, and attorney general of North Carolina, among other roles. Also included are materials related to Indian hostilities in the state in 1756, and a broadside of 1789 addressed to the Creek nation.

ArchivalResource: 0.2 c.f. (1 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787336 View

Avery family of North Carolina. Avery family of North Carolina papers, 1777-1890, 1906 [manuscript].

Title: Avery family of North Carolina papers, 1777-1890, 1906 [manuscript].

Personal and professional correspondence, legal papers, financial materials, and other papers relating to members of the Avery family and related Erwin, Lenoir, and Probert families. Personal correspondence concerns family affairs. Business correspondence concerns land; purchasing and hiring out of slaves; agriculture; politics; and financial, business, and legal affairs. Also included are several Civil War letters of Isaac Thomas Avery and Isaac Erwin Avery (1828-1863) with the 6th North Carolina Regiment, official war correspondence, letters concerning Isaac Erwin Avery's death at Gettysburg, and notes concerning deserters. Also included are bills; receipts; estate papers and wills; account books documenting the Avery plantation at Swann Ponds and other plantations, including the distribution of goods to slaves and purchase and hiring out of slaves; papers relating to gold purchases at the State Bank of North Carolina and gold mines; and a copy of Andrew Jackson's 1788 challenge to a duel with Waightstill Avery. Also included are biographical materials; genealogical materials; clippings; Civil War materials relating to Isaac Erwin Avery (1828-1863); publications by Isaac Erwin Avery (1871-1904); a recipe book and poetry of Harriet Erwin Avery; and other materials.

ArchivalResource: About 3000 items (6.0 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22150632 View

Lenoir family. Lenoir family papers, 1763-1936, 1975 (Series 3.2. and 5).

Title: Lenoir family papers, 1763-1936, 1975 (Series 3.2. and 5).

Legal papers include court documents of Waightstill Avery and Walter Waightstill Lenoir and estate papers of Lenoir family members and others. Other papers relate to railroad and road building projects; the Linville Improvment Company and the Linville Building and Loan Association; and Walter Waightstill Lenoir's grist and lumber mill records. Financial papers include promissory notes and volumes listing notes, debtors, tax records, and bank statements. Memorandum books, 1782-1888, include notes on livestock and agriculture; rental agreements; land surveys and deeds; and records of travel and of political, legal, court, and military activity. There are also records of William Lenoir's partnership in Rousseau and Comapny. Day books, 1802-1865, and account books, 1781-1892, contain entries relating to lumber and construction, land transactions, labor and rents, and sales of crops and other items, as well as business, plantation, agricultural, and political memoranda.

ArchivalResource: 13200 items (24.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31070137 View

Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891. Draper manuscripts: Mecklenburg declaration papers, 1775-1887.

Title: Draper manuscripts: Mecklenburg declaration papers, 1775-1887.

Papers, mainly Draper's notes and correspondence, collected during his research and writing on the Mecklenburg Declaration controversy including the sources used in his proposed book (Draper Mss FF), and biographical and genealogical research correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 0.6 c.f. (3 volumes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145788284 View