Avery family of North Carolina papers, 1777-1890, 1906 [manuscript].

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Avery family of North Carolina papers, 1777-1890, 1906 [manuscript].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22150632

Personal and professional correspondence, legal papers, financial materials, and other papers relating to members of the Avery family and related Erwin, Lenoir, and Probert families. Personal correspondence concerns family affairs. Business correspondence concerns land; purchasing and hiring out of slaves; agriculture; politics; and financial, business, and legal affairs. Also included are several Civil War letters of Isaac Thomas Avery and Isaac Erwin Avery (1828-1863) with the 6th North Carolina Regiment, official war correspondence, letters concerning Isaac Erwin Avery's death at Gettysburg, and notes concerning deserters. Also included are bills; receipts; estate papers and wills; account books documenting the Avery plantation at Swann Ponds and other plantations, including the distribution of goods to slaves and purchase and hiring out of slaves; papers relating to gold purchases at the State Bank of North Carolina and gold mines; and a copy of Andrew Jackson's 1788 challenge to a duel with Waightstill Avery. Also included are biographical materials; genealogical materials; clippings; Civil War materials relating to Isaac Erwin Avery (1828-1863); publications by Isaac Erwin Avery (1871-1904); a recipe book and poetry of Harriet Erwin Avery; and other materials.

About 3000 items (6.0 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Avery family.

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Lenoir family.

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Avery, Waightstill, 1741-1821

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American Revolutionary Patriot and North Carolina lawyer. From the guide to the Waightstill Avery letters, 1778, 1779, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

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Avery, William Waightstill, 1816-1864

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Erwin family.

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Avery, Isaac Erwin, 1871-1904

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Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 6th

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Avery family of North Carolina.

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The Avery family of Burke County, N.C., was prominent in western North Carolina, owning extensive tracts of land and actively participating in local and state politics. Family members include Waightstill Avery, who served on the committee that drew up the first North Carolina constitution and was the state's first attorney general; his wife, Leah Probart Franck Avery; their son, Isaac Thomas Avery; his wife, Harriet Erwin Avery; and their children, William Waightstill Avery, Clarke Moulton Avery...

Avery, Alphonso Calhoun, 1835-1913

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Alphonso Calhoun Avery of Burke County, N.C., was a lawyer, a judge in the North Carolina Superior Courts, a North Carolina Supreme Court justice, and a major in the 6th North Carolina Regiment during the Civil War. He married Susan Washington Morrison in 1861 and Sallie Love Thomas in 1888. He had eleven children, including Isaac Erwin Avery and Gladys Avery Tillett. From the description of Alphonso Calhoun Avery papers, 1761-1977 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 27183539 ...

Probart family.

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Avery, Isaac Erwin, 1828-1863

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Confederate states of America. Army

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The Savannah Ordnance Depot, Savannah, Georgia, was organized as a field depot during the Civil War. In April 1864, it became the Savannah Arsenal under the supervision of the Chief of Ordnance. From the description of Savannah Ordnance Depot employment roll, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477938 The Confederate States of America Army may have created the position of Purchasing Commissary of Subsistence to oversee the distribution of food and other supplies to the Co...