Edmund Walter Jones papers, 1789-1917.

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Edmund Walter Jones papers, 1789-1917.

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Early items in the collection are chiefly business and surveying papers of Edmund Walter Jones's father-in-law, William Davenport. The bulk of the papers is business and family correspondence of Jones, including letters from Lenoir, Jones, Patterson, and Avery relatives commenting on personal and public affairs; papers related to E. W. Jones's speculation in military bounty lands in the Midwest; wartime letters from his sons, William Davenport (b. 1839), John Thomas (1842-1864) and Walter L. (d. 1863), both of whom served in the 26th North Carolina Regiment, and Edmund (1848-1920), written from various locations in North Carolina and Virginia; and a few letters from sons John Thomas and Edmund while students at the University of North Carolina. The postwar papers pertain to Edmund (1848-1920), planter in Happy Valley, lawyer in Lenoir, N.C., and state legislator. Volumes include land, surveying, and financial records of William Davenport, including a field survey book (typed transcript only), 1821, of the boundary line between North Carolina and Tennessee; a memorandum book kept by Edmund Jones (1771-1844), father of Edmund Walter Jones, on a trip to Alabama in 1816; miscellaneous accounts and memoranda of E. W. Jones, including accounts of the building of Clover Hill; and a clothing records for Company I, 26th North Carolina Regiment.

372 items (1.0 linear ft.)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Jones, Edmund, 1848-1920

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Davenport, William, 1745-1829

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Lenoir family.

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Jones, Edmund, 1771-1844.

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Jones family.

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Jones, Edmund Walter, 1811-1876

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Edmund Walter Jones was a lawyer and planter at Clover Hill in Happy Valley in Caldwell County, N.C. From the description of Edmund Walter Jones papers, 1789-1917. WorldCat record id: 25327440 Edmund Walter Jones of Clover Hill, situated about six miles north of Lenoir in Caldwell County, N.C., was the son of Edmund Jones and his wife Ann Lenoir Jones of Palmyra. His grandfathers were William Lenoir and George Jones. Edmund Walter Jones married his cousin Sophia Caroline Dav...

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...

Jones, Walter, 1771-1861

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Epithet: DD; Chaplain to George II British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000441.0x00011f Walter Jones was a lawyer and soldier, of Washington, D.C. His daughter, Catherine Ella Jones, was an Episcopal missionary in Shanghai, China. From the description of Walter and Catherine Ella Jones papers, 1819-1880. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122476546 Epithet: Vicar of Wendy-cum-Shingay...

Patterson family.

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Avery family.

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Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 26th

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Jones, John Thomas, 1842-1864.

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Jones, William Davenport, b. 1839.

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