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Burton, Robert, 1747-1825. Papers, 1771-1925; (bulk 1771-1838).

Title: Papers, 1771-1925; (bulk 1771-1838).

Correspondence, business papers, records, and account book of Robert Burton and son Horace A. Burton. Includes records of patrons of Robert Burton's commission mercantile business. Also contains references to the Transylvania Company (formerly Richard Henderson and Co., 1764, and the Louisa Co., 1774), a land speculation company; letters from Robert Houston and John Rhea of Knoxville, Tenn., regarding the purchase of land from Richard Henderson's estate; and copies of court records of Madison County, Ky., concerning Henderson's property there. After 1830 the papers are mainly business and personal correspondence of Horace A. Burton, but include material regarding John and William Ragland and their heirs. Several letters after 1880 are concerned with genealogy. Correspondents include William A. Graham, T.T. Hicks, Frank Nash, and Lewis Williams.

ArchivalResource: 103 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19316049 View

Lenoir family. Papers, 1754-1935.

Title: Papers, 1754-1935.

Personal, business, and official papers of William Lenoir, who settled in the Yadkin River valley of North Carolina in 1775, and his descendants and other relatives. Lenoir's papers detail his activities as soldier, militia officer, and local official in old Wilkes County, N.C., and as a landowner, farmer, and surveyor. Included are writings and notes by him concerning the Battle of Kings Mountain and an expedition against the Cherokees and correspondence concerning family matters and public affairs. There are extensive letters and papers of Lenoir's children and their descendants in North Carolina, especially Caldwell, Wilkes, Burke, Haywood, and Orange counties; Tennessee, especially Roane and Loudon counties; Boone County, Mo.; Greene and Hale counties, Ala.; and South Carolina. Lenoir family correspondence reflects daily life and social, economic, and political conditions in North Carolina and beyond in the 19th century, and includes letters from students in schools and colleges, from soldiers in the U.S. and Confederate armies, and from North Carolina political figures, including Lewis Williams (1782-1842) and Israel Pickens (1780-1827). Volumes include account books and small memorandum books concerning farming, livestock, horsebreeding, labor, milling, orchards, blacksmith work, lands and surveys, turnpikes, postal service, trip expenses, provisions and general merchandise, and taxes; diaries of soldiers in the 25th and 26th North Carolina regiments, C.S.A.; and school notebooks, diaries, and district listings for Wilkes County in the 1840 census.

ArchivalResource: 9,000 items (22.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27190294 View

Willie Person Mangum Papers, 1771-1906, (bulk 1771-1868)

Title: Willie Person Mangum Papers 1771-1906 (bulk 1771-1868)

Jurist and U.S. senator and representative from North Carolina. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, legal papers, genealogical material, financial papers, and printed matter concerning local, southern, and national politics, the Whig Party in the South, economic and social conditions in North Carolina, the Mangum plantation, and education of the Mangum children.

ArchivalResource: 5,000 items; 34 containers; 13.6 linear feet

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Wirt, William, 1772-1834. Papers, 1802-1858 (bulk: 1802-1834)

Title: William Wirt Papers 1802-1858 (bulk 1802-1834)

Correspondence, writings, reminiscences, clippings, and other papers pertaining primarily to the Wirt (Werth) family, a Southern slaveholding family. Topics include social life in Baltimore, Md., Richmond, Va., and Washington, D.C., Christian piety, and sickness and death in the Wirt family. Also includes material concerning the trial of Aaron Burr, legal work conducted by Wirt as U.S. district attorney, Richmond, Va., 1816, and as U.S. attorney general, 1817-1829, Wirt's 1832 presidential campaign on the Anti-Masonic ticket, the efforts of Wirt and his son-in-law, Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, to settle German farmers near Monticello, Fla., Wirt's book titled, The Letters of the British Spy (1803), and reactions to Wirt's biography of Patrick Henry. In addition to family members, correspondents include John Quincy Adams, Nicholas Biddle, William H. Cabell, John C. Calhoun, Dabney Carr, Robert Gamble, Peachy R. Gilmer, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Abner Phelps, Richard Rush, James Wallace, James Webster, and Lewis Williams.

ArchivalResource: 1,800 items; 9 containers plus 1 oversize; 2.2 linear feet; 4 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007003 View

Williams, Lewis, 1786-1842. Lewis Williams correspondence, 1820-1828.

Title: Lewis Williams correspondence, 1820-1828.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70981376 View

Fries, Henry E. [Notes for Looking backward, a speech about Amelia Van Vleck : presented to the Cosmos Club / by Henry E. Fries].

Title: [Notes for Looking backward, a speech about Amelia Van Vleck : presented to the Cosmos Club / by Henry E. Fries]. 1929.

ArchivalResource: 16 leaves ; 33 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51886788 View

Barbour, James, 1775-1842. Letter to an unidentified correspondent, 1837 October 20.

Title: Letter to an unidentified correspondent, 1837 October 20.

Barbour writes that Representative William C. Johnson of Maryland wishes to make public the opinions of Thomas Jefferson on a national bank. Barbour's informant has retired from politics and does not want to be quoted. Congressman Lewis Williams of North Carolina is also mentioned.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49224100 View

Williams, Lewis, 1786-1842. Copy of Hon. Lewis Williams' will.

Title: Copy of Hon. Lewis Williams' will. [19--]

ArchivalResource: 2, [2] leaves ; 35 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/643551078 View

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

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

Letters relating to politics begin in the 1790s and are chiefly from or to William Lenoir at Fort Defiance. Local and state political topics include Whig politics; lottery ticket sales in support for the University of North Carolina; William Lenoir's militia activities in 1812; internal improvements, especially lobbying for roads and railroads; and political ambitions of various family members. National politics was discussed by William Lenoir's congressional friends in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., including N.C. congressman Lewis Williams. Topics include Revolutionary War pensions; banking and international trade issues; the containment of slavery; Thomas Jefferson and his political opponents; Israel Pickens's career as a member of Congress during the War of 1812 and as Alabama governor; and distaste for Andrew Jackson.

ArchivalResource: 13200 items (24.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31070121 View

Wirt, William, 1772-1834. Papers, 1802-1858 (bulk: 1802-1834)

Title: William Wirt Papers 1802-1858 (bulk 1802-1834)

Correspondence, writings, reminiscences, clippings, and other papers pertaining primarily to the Wirt (Werth) family, a Southern slaveholding family. Topics include social life in Baltimore, Md., Richmond, Va., and Washington, D.C., Christian piety, and sickness and death in the Wirt family. Also includes material concerning the trial of Aaron Burr, legal work conducted by Wirt as U.S. district attorney, Richmond, Va., 1816, and as U.S. attorney general, 1817-1829, Wirt's 1832 presidential campaign on the Anti-Masonic ticket, the efforts of Wirt and his son-in-law, Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, to settle German farmers near Monticello, Fla., Wirt's book titled, The Letters of the British Spy (1803), and reactions to Wirt's biography of Patrick Henry. In addition to family members, correspondents include John Quincy Adams, Nicholas Biddle, William H. Cabell, John C. Calhoun, Dabney Carr, Robert Gamble, Peachy R. Gilmer, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Abner Phelps, Richard Rush, James Wallace, James Webster, and Lewis Williams.

ArchivalResource: 1,800 items; 9 containers plus 1 oversize; 2.2 linear feet; 4 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007003 View

Yancey, Bartlett, 1785-1828. Bartlett Yancey papers, 1800-1828 [manuscript].

Title: Bartlett Yancey papers, 1800-1828 [manuscript].

Papers include frequent letters to Bartlett Yancey from Nathaniel Macon, Romulus Mitchell Saunders, and Lewis Williams, and scattered letters from John C. Calhoun, William H. Crawford, Willie P. Mangum, Archibald D. Murphey, Thomas Ruffin, and other prominent men, particularly concerning the preliminaries of the elections of 1824 and 1828, reflecting the viewpoint of the "Old Republican" group which supported William H. Crawford for the presidency in 1824 and Andrew Jackson in 1828.

ArchivalResource: 123 items (0.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24144908 View