John Herritage Bryan Papers, 1766-1869

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John Herritage Bryan Papers, 1766-1869

https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/0147

Papers (1766-1869) consisting of correspondence, legal papers, land records, financial papers, reports, newspapers, and miscellaneous items.

9.98 Cubic Feet, 1250 items

eng, Latn

East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11628634

East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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Grimes, Charlotte Emily Bryan, 1840-1920

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Daughter of John Herritage Bryan (1798–1870) and Mary Williams Shepard (1801–1881). Grimes married Confederate General Bryan Grimes (1828-1880) in 1863. The Grimes family made their home in Grimesland, N.C....

Bryan, John Heritage, 1798-1870

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John Herritage (Heritage) Bryan (1798-1870) was an attorney of New Bern and later Raleigh. He represented Craven County in the State Senate (1823-1825) and was elected to Congress in 1825 as a National Republican. After serving in Congress for two terms, Bryan returned to his New Bern law practice until moving to Raleigh around 1839. In 1863, Charlotte, daughter of John Herritage and Mary Shepard Bryan, married Confederate Major General Bryan Grimes of Grimesland in Pitt County....

Whig Party (N.C.)

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Rockfish Manufacturing Company.

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North Carolina School for the Deaf

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National Republican Party (N.C.)

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Raleigh and Gaston Railroad Company

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Bryan family.

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Grimes, Bryan, 1828-1880

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Bryan Grimes (1828-1880), the son of Bryan Grimes Sr. and Nancy Grist, was a Confederate General and an enslaver who owned a cotton plantation. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1848, and the following year, his father gave him the family plantation Grimesland in Pitt County, N.C., along with approximately 100 enslaved persons. Bryan Grimes lived the life of plantation owner until the eve of the Civil War in 1861. He then attended North Carolina's state convention and took a ...