Eccles family papers, 1783-1968 [manuscript].

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Eccles family papers, 1783-1968 [manuscript].

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Correspondence and other papers of Edward Jones (1762-1841) of Wilmington and Fayetteville, N.C., native of Ireland, merchant, lawyer, and solicitor-general of North Carolina; and of his son-in-law, John Dick Eccles (d. 1856), also of Fayetteville. Included are a series of letters written from Saratoga Springs, N.Y., in 1843, describing medical treatment and the declining health of Edward J. Eccles (d. ca. 1843); and a letter, 18 November 1847, describing a visit to the Peale home in Philadelphia. Also included is correspondence of members of the McLaurin, Hooper, DeBerniere, Holmes, and other families of Cumberland, New Hanover, Chatham, and Sampson counties, N.C., Carroll County, Miss., New Orleans, La., and other places. Edward Jones's correspondence, beginning in the 1780s, includes letters from his friend Peter Stephen Du Ponceau, Philadelphia lawyer and author, and from several North Carolina Federalist leaders concerning state and national politics. Also included in the collection are two other series of letters, one from the Holmes family (copies only) of Fayetteville and Wilmington, N.C., and Carroll County, Miss., the majority of which were written by women during the antebellum period, discussing Holmes and Blankes family life, economic conditions, and the splintering of the family; and the other of the Parsley family of Wilmington. Also included are transcript copies and extensive notes on these letters and on family history by Catherine Holmes (Jones) Pierce of Durham, N.C.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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