Griffith J. McRee Papers, 1772-1908

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Griffith J. McRee Papers, 1772-1908

Griffith J. McRee Papers, 1772-1908

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Griffith John McRee (1820-1872) was a North Carolina historian, author, attorney, and plantation owner. McRee was educated at W. H. Hardin's academy in Pittsboro, N.C., and graduated from Princeton in 1838. He later married Penelope Iredell, daughter of North Carolina governor and senator James Iredell. The collection includes incoming correspondence, bills, receipts, legal papers, newspaper clippings, and other papers of McRee. Also included are letters and papers relating to McRee's biography, 1857-1858, of James Iredell, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and to the history of the American Revolution and the Civil War. Correspondents include David L. Swain and Eli Washington Caruthers, who wrote concerning historical events, sources, and historiography. Also included is a notebook containing the biography of an earlier Griffith John McRee (1758-1801), Revolutionary War officer and rice planter on the Cape Fear River of North Carolina.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection