Samuel William Watts Papers, 1845-1918

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Samuel William Watts Papers, 1845-1918

1845-1918

https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/0281

Papers (1845-1918) of lawyer who lived in Martin County, Franklin County, and Smithfield in Brunswick County and was active in Reconstruction Era Republican politics, consisting of correspondence, receipts, vouchers, court dockets, legal papers, annual railroad pass, financial records, advertisements.

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East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11637571

East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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North Carolina. Constitutional Convention (1868)

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Republican Party (N.C.)

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Watts, Samuel William, 1826-1881

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Samuel William Watts (1826 - 1881) was a Martin County lawyer before the Civil War and represented that county at the 1868 state Constitutional Convention. In 1868 he moved to Franklin County, where he was promptly elected judge of the 6th Judicial District Superior Court, serving until his resignation February 1, 1877. In the late 1870s he moved to Smithville in Brunswick County. Watts was very active in state and local Republican party activities during the Reconstruction period. F...

North Carolina. Superior Court (Franklin County).

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