Letters, 1845-1885.

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Letters, 1845-1885.

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Fifteen letters to David L. Swain, president of the University of North Carolina, relating to the history of the state. Topics include the Regulators, Loyalists, Mecklenburg Declaration, Governors William Tryon and Alexander Martin, and Hermon Husbands and Edmund Fanning. Original items include a letter to C.C. Jones on the employment of women and children in Germany and a note, 1885, of thanks for Jones's article on Richard H. Wilde; a letter from H.C. Van Schaack regarding the publication of his pamphlet on Henry Cruger; and notes relating to appointments by Bancroft as Secretary of the Navy, and to payment from publishers.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Swain, David Lowry, 1801-1868

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David Lowry Swain, lawyer, governor, and educator, was born near Asheville, N.C., in Buncombe County. His father, George Swain, was a Massachusetts native who settled in Georgia and served in the Georgia legislature and constitutional convention of 1795 before moving to the North Carolina mountains. Caroline Swain, his mother, was the daughter of Jesse Lane. Caroline Swain had four children with her first husband, David Lowry. She and George Swain had seven children, of whom David ...

Bancroft, George, 1800-1891

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George Bancroft was an American historian and statesman, and an active promoter of secondary education both in his home state and at the national level. As U. S. Secretary of the Navy under James K. Polk, Bancroft established the Naval Academy at Annapolis and later served as U.S. Minister to Great Britain (1846-1849), Prussia (1867-1871), and the German Empire (1871-1874). He is best remembered however for his 10-volume History of the United States, a work which fellow historian Leop...

Van Schaack, Henry Cruger, 1802-1887

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Lawyer and antiquarian from Manlius, N.Y. Van Schaack was the son of Peter Van Schaack of Kinderhook, N.Y. From the description of Papers, 1725-1844. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122434029 Attorney, author, antiquarian. Born in Kinderhook, N.Y. Lived at Black Rock, near Buffalo, from 1823-1827, then moved to Manlius, N.Y. From the description of Reminiscences of a four years residence on the Niagara Frontier, 1823 to 1827, 1882 / by Henry C. Van Schaack. (Buffa...

Cruger, Henry, 1739-1827

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Martin, Alexander, 1738-1807

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Alexander Martin (1738-1807) was a merchant, lawyer, delegate of the U.S. Continental Congress, U.S. senator, and governor of North Carolina, and army officer. ...

United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Jones, Charles C. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893

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"Known as the "Macaulay of the South," Charles C. Jones Jr. was the foremost Georgia historian of the nineteenth century. Also a noted autograph and manuscript collector and an accomplished amateur archaeologist, Jones in later years became a prominent memorialist of the Lost Cause and critic of the New South." - "Charles C. Jones Jr." New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org (Retrieved August 21, 2008) From the description of Charles Colcock Jones letters, 1866-1...

Mecklenburg County (N.C.).

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Husbands, Hermon, 1724-1795

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Fanning, Edmund, 1739-1818

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Henry Eustace McCulloh (died circa 1810), resident of Edenton, N.C., was a royal official and large landholder in North Carolina. He served as his father's agent and as attorney for G. A. Selwyn, both owners of large tracts of land in North Carolina. Edmund Fanning (1739-1818) was a lawyer and colonial official in Hillsborough, N.C. Fanning was a member of the Assembly, a judge of the Superior Court, and a militia colonel. From the guide to the Fanning and Mc...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Wilde, Richard Henry, 1789-1847

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U.S. representative from Georgia, lawyer, and poet. From the description of Richard Henry Wilde papers, 1807-1867. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981955 Member of Congress, poet and literary scholar, and professor of law at the University of Louisiana (now Tulane University), New Orleans, La. From the description of Papers, 1812-1885. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 39522050 Irish born American poet, Italian scholar, lawyer, congressman ...

Tryon, William, 1729-1788

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Colonial governor of North Carolina, 1764-1771, and New York, 1771-1780. From the description of William Tryon papers, 1772-1784. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58779879 British army officer and colonial lt. governor and governor of North Carolina. From the description of Correspondence of William Tryon, 1773-1774. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82551846 Colonial gov. of New York. From the description of Letter si...