Papers, 1807-1890.

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Papers, 1807-1890.

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Correspondence, legal papers, bills, receipts, and other personal and business papers of Staton and other residents of Williamston. Correspondents include Asa Biggs, William James Bingham, Elisha Mitchell, John Spelman, and David Lowry Swain. Topics include the settlement of Staton's estate, 1861, the University of North Carolina, the Democratic Press and the State Journal, lotteries in North Carolina and Delaware, and the hiring of slaves.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6996815

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Swain, David Lowry, 1801-1868

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David Lowry Swain, lawyer, governor, and educator, was born near Asheville, N.C., in Buncombe County. His father, George Swain, was a Massachusetts native who settled in Georgia and served in the Georgia legislature and constitutional convention of 1795 before moving to the North Carolina mountains. Caroline Swain, his mother, was the daughter of Jesse Lane. Caroline Swain had four children with her first husband, David Lowry. She and George Swain had seven children, of whom David ...

Bingham, William James.

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Spelman, John A. (John Adams), 1912-

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Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857

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Elisha Mitchell was a native of Connecticut, student and tutor at Yale College, Presbyterian minister, and professor of geology and chemistry and bursar at the University of North Carolina, 1818-1857. From the description of Elisha Mitchell papers, 1816-1905. WorldCat record id: 23658466 Elisha Mitchell (19 August 1793-27 June 1857) of Connecticut was a graduate of Yale who taught at Jamaica, Long Island, N.Y. and at New London, Conn., and was a tutor at Yale be...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Staton, McGilvery M.

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Brick dealer, farmer, and slaveholder, of Williamston (Martin Co.), N.C. From the description of Papers, 1807-1890. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20188591 ...

Biggs, Asa, 1811-1878

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Asa Biggs was born in Williamston, N.C., on 4 February 1811, and died in Norfolk, Va., on 6 March 1878. He attended the Williamston Academy, studied law, and passed the bar in 1831. Biggs served in the North Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1835; the North Carolina House of Commons in 1840 and 1842; the state Senate in 1844 and 1854; the United States House of Representatives, 1845-1847; and the United States Senate, 1855-1858. Biggs also served as United States District Judge for North Car...