David A. Barnes papers, 1806-1892 (bulk 1850-1890).

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David A. Barnes papers, 1806-1892 (bulk 1850-1890).

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The collection includes personal and business correspondence, chiefly 1850-1890; bills and receipts; bills of sale; wills; deeds; indentures; and other legal papers of David A. Barnes. The papers concerning legal matters handled by Barnes are largely relate to members of the Burgwyn and McRae families. They include letters concerning Alveston, the Burgwyn plantation in Occoneechie Neck, Northampton County, N.C.; George Pollock Burgwyn's bankruptcy case; and the affairs of T. Pollock Burgwyn and his sister Emily. There are scattered items relating to Barnes's service as aide-de-camp to North Carolina governor Zebulan B. Vance during the Civil War and to his postwar railroad interests as a director and attorney of the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad. Postwar political correspondence includes letters to and from Jonathan Worth, William C. Bagley, and others. Personal correspondence includes letters between Bettie Vaughan Barnes, the Vaughan family, and her husband and children, especially son David Collin Barnes while he was a student at Horner Academy, Oxford, N.C. Volumes include Collin William Barnes's ledger for provisions, shoe shop, and labor, 1820-1832; an account book and ledger for whiskey and bacon, 1833; Boons Mill day books, 1836-1839; other account books; proceedings of the Jackson Lyceum Society, Jackson, N.C., 1838-1839; and the 1840 diary Barnes kept while he was a student at the University of North Carolina.

ca. 350 items (1.5 linear feet)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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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...

McRae family.

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Barnes family.

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Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad Company

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Worth, Jonathan, 1802-1869

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Governor of North Carolina and lawyer. From the description of Pardon of Jonathan Worth, 1865 August 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067019 Jonathan Worth, 1802-1869, was the son of David Worth of Guilford County, N.C. He studied law under Archibald D. Murphy, married Martitia Daniel, and started practicing law at Asheboro, N.C., in 1825. Worth was a member of the North Carolina state legislature in 1830, 1831, 1840, 1858, and 1860-1863, and was...

Vaughan family.

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Burgwyn family.

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Barnes, David A. (David Alexander), 1819-1892

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David Alexander Barnes graduated from the University of North Carolina with an A.B. in 1840. He lived at Jackson (Northampton County), N.C., and was a member of the state House of Commons in 1844, 1846, 1850, and of the Convention of 1861. He was a superior court judge from 1865 to 1868 and a university trustee in 1868. In 1873, he married Bettie Vaughan. From the description of David A. Barnes papers, 1806-1892 (bulk 1850-1890). WorldCat record id: 25327584 Dav...

Bagley, William C. (William Chandler), 1874-1946

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Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894

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Confederate general; governor of North Carolina, and U.S. senator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Washington], to William F. Vilas, 1888 May 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270574072 Confederate Army officer, governor of North Carolina, and U.S. senator from North Carolina. From the description of Papers, 1857-1893. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20460648 Zebulon Baird Vance, a native of Buncombe County, N.C., was go...

Horner Academy (Oxford, N.C.)

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