Edenton (N.C.) papers, 1717-1937 [manuscript].

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Edenton (N.C.) papers, 1717-1937 [manuscript].

Miscellaneous papers, chiefly bills, receipts, deeds, court proceedings, wills, estate settlements (including the division of slaves), and other legal and business papers of Edenton and Chowan County, N.C., citizens, mainly before 1820. There are few letters. Several items concern the awarding of prizes by the Admiralty Court during the Revolution. Persons represented in the collection include: Nathaniel Allen, William Badham, John Barefield, Thomas Barker, Nehemiah Bateman, John Beasley, Thomas Benbury, William Blair, Charles Blount, Joseph Blount, William Branch, Stephen Cabarrus, William Cathcart, Josiah Collins, James Craven, Samuel Dickinson, Charles Eden, Henry Eelbeck, Montfort Eelbeck, William Eelbeck, William Hill, John Hodgson, Samuel Hodgson, Thomas Holland, Arthur Johnston, Samuel Johnston, Peter Malbone, Jeremiah Michener, Elisha Norfleet, Samuel Pagett, John Palin, Thomas Parris, and Thomas Pollock.

About 300 items (0.5 linear ft.).

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Johnston, Samuel, 1733-1816

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Samuel Johnston (December 15, 1733 – August 17, 1816) was an American planter, lawyer, and statesman from Chowan County, North Carolina. He represented North Carolina in both the Continental Congress and as one of the state's first two United States Senators, and he was the sixth Governor of North Carolina. Born in Dundee, Scotland, he came to America with his family in 1736 after his father settled in Onslow County in the Province of North Carolina. Educated in New England, Johnston read law...

Michener, Jeremiah.

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Blount, Charles.

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Epithet: Baron Mountjoy, Earl of Devonshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000974.0x000329 ...

Holland, Thomas P.

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Pollock, Thomas C.

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Malbone, Peter

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Eelbeck, Montfort, d. 1790.

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Benbury, Thomas, 1736-1793.

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Cathcart, William, ca. 1710-1773.

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Palin, John.

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Beasley, John

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Collins, Josiah, 1735-1819

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Edenton (Chowan Co.), N.C. resident. From the description of Papers, 1819-1850. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36854575 ...

Pagett, Samuel.

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Craven, James, d. 1755.

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Eden, Charles, 1673-1722

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Hodgson, John

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Epithet: Chief Clerk in Westminster Court of Requests British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000750.0x000257 ...

Branch, William B.

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Norfleet, Elisha, 1800-1869

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Cabarrus, Stephen, 1754-1808.

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Blair, William F.

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Barefield, John

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Hill, William, 1737-1783.

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Eelbeck, Henry

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Epithet: Ludi Magister British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000817.0x000164 ...

Badham, William, b. 1735.

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Bateman, Nehemiah.

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Johnston, Arthur, 1778-1824

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Parris, Thomas.

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Barker, Thomas, 1713-1789.

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Dickinson, Samuel N. (Samuel Nelson), 1801-1848

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Samuel Nelson Dickinson (1801-1848) was a printer and type founder in Boston during the 1830s and 1840s. The Boston directories from 1830 to 1845 list Dickinson as a printer at 52 Washington St. The 1846 directory lists a printing firm called S.N. Dickinson & Co. and a Type & Stereotype Foundry, which belonged to that company. At this time, Charles C. P. Moody was Dickinson's junior partner in business. In the 1847 directory Dickinson is listed as a printer but his company is called Dick...

Blount, Joseph H.

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Eelbeck, William.

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Hodgson, Samuel

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Allen, Nathaniel, ca. 1755-1805.

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