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Historical Family Collections |
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A listing of Historical Family Collections with Wilkes County Families found in local libraries |
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Family documents contributed to various institutions, libraries, and universities can be a valuable asset in researching one's ancestors. They can contain many things, including family histories, bibles, plantation records, deeds, slave records of all kinds, personal letters and other correspondence. North Carolina is fortunate to have many such collections, some of which I am listing below along with the time period covered and linked to the institution where it is housed with a more complete description by clicking onto the title of the collection. Note that some of the collections have copies of actual documents attached to them, so I suggest that you look through them thoroughly. As I locate other collections with genealogical material, it will be added to this page. |
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| Hamilton Brown Papers, 1752-1907 | |||||||||||
| Three generations of a prominent family from Wilkes County, N.C., and Maury County, Tenn. Persons represented include John Brown (1738-1812), immigrant from Ulster, early landowner in western North Carolina and in Tennessee; his son, Hamilton (1786-1870), planter, businessman, sheriff, and militia officer of Wilkes County; Hamilton's sons Hugh Thomas Brown (1835-1861) and Hamilton Allen Brown (1837-1917); and Gordon, Gwyn, Finley, Lenoir, and McDowell relatives, including James Byron Gordon (1822-1864), Confederate general. | |||||||||||
| Bryan and Leventhorpe Family Papers, 1797-1940 | |||||||||||
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Represented are members of the related Bryan, Leventhorpe, Davenport, and Avery
families, including Edmund (1791-1874) and Ursilla (Hampton) Bryan of
Rutherfordton, N.C.; their daughters, Ann Eliza (Bryan) Mills and Louise (Bryan)
Leventhorpe; Louise's husband, Collett Leventhorpe (1815-1899), an English-born
officer in the Confederate Army; and their descendants, including members of the
Hampton family of Henry County, Tenn., and the Avery family of North Carolina.
The collection includes personal and business papers of the Bryan, Leventhorpe,
and related families. Material prior to 1860 includes Edmund Bryan's journal
during the Creek Indian War in Alabama, 1814; annual returns addressed to him as
a general in the North Carolina militia, 1827-1838; and nine letters, 1812-1816,
from Israel Pickens discussing the War of 1812, taxes, and Washington, D.C.,
politics. There are also papers pertaining to slaves and to the Leventhorpe
family's iron and gold mining interests. Scattered Civil War items concern the
secession crisis, Collett Leventhorpe's career as a Confederate brigadier
general in eastern North Carolina, and civilian affairs in Rutherfordton. After
1880 the papers relate principally to Judge Alphonso Calhoun Avery (1835-1913)
of Burke County, N.C.; and newspaper editor Johnston Avery. Andrew Bryan
(1756-1808) moved in 1788 from Virginia to Wilkes County, N.C., where he married
Delphia Garnett Jones. The eldest of their nine children was Edmund (1791-1874),
who married Ursilla Hampton and lived in Rutherfordton, N.C. Edmund participated
in the 1814 campaign against the Creek Indians and Alabama and later became a
general in the state militia. The children of Edmund and Ursilla Hampton Bryan
were A. Rufus, who married Sue McCampbell; Eliza, who married first William
Mills and second Ambrose Mills; Louise, who married Collett Leventhorpe
(1815-1889), an English-born officer in the Confederate Army who lived at Holly
Lodge in Happy Valley; Mary, who married William Davenport Jones (1839-1912) and
lived at the Fountain in Happy Valley; and Edmund, who married Lavallett Pierce. |
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| Chang and Eng Bunker Papers, 1832-1874, 1933-1967, 1998 | |||||||||||
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Chang and Eng Bunker, the original Siamese twins, married sisters Sarah and
Adelaide Yates in 1843 and established homes and families in Wilkes County and
later Surry County, N.C. The collection includes correspondence, bills, and
receipts, including slave bills of sale, of Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker
relating to their North Carolina property, planting interests, family matters,
and arrangements for exhibition tours. Also included are an account book,
1833-1839, showing income from public appearances and itinerary; clippings;
photographs; articles about the twins by Worth B. Daniels and Jonathan Daniels
and related material; and Joined at Birth, a 1998 videotape about the twins that
was made by Advanced Medical Productions of Chapel Hill, N.C., for the Discovery
Channel. The Addition of November 2011 is a ledger with entries presumably
penned by Chang and Eng's business manager Charles Harris detailing the
business-related and personal expenses of Chang and Eng during exhibition tours
of Cuba, Europe, and the United States and for a period after they settled in
North Carolina in 1839. Bunker, Chang, 1811-1874 Bunker, Eng, 1811-1874 See also, Eng & Chang Bunker, The Siamese Twins, a Digital Project
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| Calvin J. Cowles Papers, 1773-1941 | |||||||||||
| Calvin Josiah Cowles (1821-1907) of Wilkes County, N.C., was a merchant specializing in roots and herbs who traded with the North and England. Cowles was a Whig and post-war Republican, superintendent of the United States Mint at Charlotte, N.C., 1869-1884, and consistent promoter of land, mining, and railroad development in northwestern North Carolina. The papers consist of letterpress copy books, 1877-1907; mercantile account books; land surveys and papers relating to Cowles's land holdings in North Carolina, Kansas, and South Dakota; papers relating to his copper and mica mines in northwestern North Carolina; business correspondence; and numerous letters exchanged between Cowles and his ten children giving a detailed picture of their education and careers. Correspondents included: Frank Armin, William Brandreth, A. W. Finley, Colonel Julius Gray, George B. Hanna, John Hinsdale, William W. Holden, Phineas Horton, Davenport Jackson, Max Long, Colonel George Polk, Henry Reynolds, Charles Strauss, William T. Sutherlin, William H. Taft, Harvey Terry, Robert Vance, and John A. Young. Also included are letters to and from son Arthur Duval Cowles, who bought his father's business in 1869 and moved it to Ashe County, N.C., and campaign papers of another son, Charles Holden Cowles, Republican United States representative, 1908-1910. The bulk of the material is dated after 1875; there is little pertaining to C. J. Cowles's political activities during Reconstruction. | |||||||||||
| Robert Lee Doughton Papers, 1913-1954 | |||||||||||
| Robert Lee Doughton (1863-1954) of Laurel Springs, Alleghany County, N.C., was a farmer, businessman, state legislator, and United States representative from North Carolina's Ninth District, 1911-1952. The following counties were in Doughton's district for at least part of his tenure in Congress: Madison, Yancey, Mitchell, Avery, Burke, Cleveland, Catawba, Lincoln, Gaston, Mecklenburg, Caldwell, Alexander, Watauga, Iredell, Rowan, Cabarrus, Stanly, Ashe, and Alleghany. Doughton was chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means from 1933 almost continually until 1952. Doughton's congressional office files, including requests from constituents for appointments and services, correspondence with district and state leaders, and letters regarding public questions and pending legislation, especially concerning finance and taxation. Other topics addressed extensively include Democratic Party politics and the Blue Ridge Parkway.In 1911 he became president of the Deposit and Savings Bank, North Wilkesboro, N.C. There are a few scattered personal, financial and business, and legal items, and copies of speeches. The bulk of the papers date between 1928 and 1952. | |||||||||||
| Percy Wright Foote Papers, 1905-1961 | |||||||||||
| Percy Wright Foote (1879-1961) was born in Roaring River, Wilkes County, North Carolina, the son of James Henry Foote, a founder of Wake Forest College, and Susan Hunt Foote. Foote was married to Genevieve Clary of Great Falls, Montana, on 1 October 1910. His son Thomas also pursued a military career (in the Army), and his daughter Diana married a Marine Corps brigadier general. Foote was a career naval officer; aide to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 1918-1921; commander of the U.S.S. "Arkansas," 1931-1933; senior inspector of shipyards in four states during World War II. Foote is best known for his heroic command of the U.S.S. "President Lincoln," which was torpedoed in 1918. The collection includes letters of commendation, writings, clippings, photographs, and other items, chiefly relating to Percy Wright Foote's activities in European waters during World War I. This collection is particularly rich in photographs relating to Foote's career in the Navy. | |||||||||||
| Gordon and Hackett Family Papers, 1752-1942 | |||||||||||
| Two Wilkes County, N.C., families were united through Robert Franklin Hackett (died circa 1889) and his wife, Caroline Louise Gordon Hackett (1828-1891), who were married in 1859 after an extended and secret engagement. Robert Franklin Hackett was an 1849 graduate of Jefferson Medical College and practiced medicine in Wilksboro, N.C. Caroline Louise Gordon Hackett was connected to the Brown, Gwyn, Lenoir, and Stokes families of North Carolina; her brother was Confederate Brigadier General James Byron Gordon (1822-1864). The collection consists chiefly of personal and family letters about household affairs, social activities of young people, and local news from the Yadkin Valley of North Carolina; Unionville, S.C.; Shreveport, La.; and Cherokee County, Ala. Many of the letters are to and from female family members and describe their activities. Early papers include letters to Caroline Louise Gordon at school in Salem, N.C., and to Robert F. Hackett at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Later papers include materials about public education in Wilkes County in the late 1850s and scattered Civil War letters. Included are two letters from Confederate Brigadier General James Byron Gordon. One, dated 22 June 1862, comments on military life, and the other, 3 February 1863, describes camp conditions in Culpepper County, Va. There are also materials relating to Robert and Caroline Hackett's sons, Richard Nathaniel Hackett, who was a student at the University of North Carolina, 1883-1887, and later an attorney and Congressman, and James Gordon Hackett, who was appointed to serve the state of North Carolina on several boards and commissions in the 1920s and 1930s. There are also several items relating to family history. | |||||||||||
| James Gwyn Papers, 1653-1946 | |||||||||||
| James Gwyn I (1768-1850) married Amelia Lenoir (1765-1848). Their son James Gwyn II (1812-1888) was a planter, clerk of court, and merchant of Wilkes County, N.C. He married Mary Anne Lenoir (1819-1899) in 1839, and, in 1852, they moved to Green Hill Plantation near Ronda, in Wilkes County. Amelia Gwyn, daughter of James Gwyn I, married Major Lytle Hickerson (1793-1884), a Wilkes County merchant, and lived at Roundabout. Hickerson and his brother-in-law James Gwyn II were business partners until about 1848, when Gwyn left the business to take charge of the plantation at Green Hill and look after his aging parents. The collection includes personal correspondence, chiefly 1830s to 1880s, financial and legal items, and other papers of the family of James Gwyn and his wife, Mary Ann Lenoir Gwyn of Green Hill Plantation, Wilkes County, N.C., chiefly concerning children's education at various schools, including the University of North Carolina; real estate; North Carolina politics; and news of the Gwyn and related Lenoir and Hickerson families, particularly of Gwyn's brother-in-law Lytle Hickerson. Volumes include diaries, 1852-1884, of James Gwyn and, 1850-1851, of his son Hugh, kept while he was a student at Emory and Henry College, 1850-1851, and while he was teaching at Holly Springs, Miss., 1852; account books for various business activities; and remedies and recipes for home and farm preparations. | |||||||||||
| G. W. F. Harper Papers, 1838-1921 | |||||||||||
| George Washington Finley Harper (1834-1921) of Lenoir, N.C., was born at Fairfield Plantation in Wilkes County, N.C., one of three children of James and Caroline Finley Harper. He was a merchant, Confederate officer, railroad builder, banker, and entrepreneur. The collection includes personal and business papers and diaries of G. W. F. Harper. Correspondence, much of it to and from his wife, Ella A. Rankin Harper, concerns politics, varied business and agricultural interests, and his Civil War career as an officer in the 58th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., serving in the Army of Tennessee. The collection also includes Harper's diaries from many of the years between 1846 and 1921; diaries of his sister-in-law, Emma L. Rankin, 1906-1908; and records of a Lenoir, N.C., literary society, 1873-1879. | |||||||||||
| Thomas F. Hickerson Papers, 1911-1967 | |||||||||||
| Thomas F. (Thomas Felix) Hickerson (1882-1968) was a professor of civil engineering and applied mathematics at the University of North Carolina and an expert in highway design. The collection includes professional and technical correspondence related to Hickerson's work as professor at the University of North Carolina; papers, photographs, and genealogical and other data connected with the writing of his two books about the history and families of the Happy Valley area in Wilkes county and Caldwell county, N.C.; and about fifty items concerning the slaying of William C. Falkner (great-grandfather of the novelist William Faulkner) at Ripley, Miss., in 1889. | |||||||||||
| Alexander Hamilton Horton Papers, 1813; 1854-1925 | |||||||||||
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Alexander Hamilton Horton (d.1890) was a farmer and general merchant of Wilkes
County, N.C. The collection is chiefly business and legal papers of Horton, of
other members of his family, and their neighbors in the areas near Wilkesboro
and Elkinville in Wilkes County. Included are bills, receipts, and accounts
concerning lands and farming in Wilkes and Caldwell counties, and to a lesser extent in Missouri. There are some records of Horton as clerk of the Wilkes County Superior Court, 1875-1887. Papers after 1890 relate to his widow, Mary Jane Vogler Horton, and their son, Hamilton Vogler Horton, Winston-Salem, N.C., with scattered items relating to the latter's dental practice. Volumes include miscellaneous merchants' records, 1868-1871; scattered account books; and legal memoranda. |
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| Jones and Patterson Family Papers, 1777-1933 | |||||||||||
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Patterson family members were merchants, manufacturers, and public officials.
Family members included General Edmund Jones (1771-1844) of Wilkes and Caldwell
counties, N.C.; Samuel Finley Patterson (1799-1874) of Salem, N.C., banker,
merchant, railroad president, state official, and son-in-law of Jones; Rufus
Lenoir Patterson (1830-1879), merchant manufacturer, state official, and son of
S. F. Patterson; Samuel Legerwood Patterson (1850-1918), another son of S. F.
Patterson, farmer and North Carolina commissioner of agriculture; and Lindsay
Patterson (b. 1858), lawyer and son of R. L. Patterson, and of his wife Lucy
(Patterson) Patterson, clubwoman, writer, lecturer, and Republican National
Committeewoman for North Carolina. The collection includes personal, business,
and political papers, chiefly 1800-1880, of the Patterson, Jones, and related
families. Volumes include account books from 1796 of merchandising, lumbering,
and lands of General Edmund Jones; mercantile account books and a variety of
other business records, 1830-1870, of Samuel Finley Patterson; account books, before and after the Civil War, of Rufus Lenoir Patterson, including records of a textile mill in Salem, 1855-1866, of merchandising and personal business, and of dealings with slaves, and with African American laborers and servants after the Civil War; personal account books; a diary, 1887-1894; a notebook of political speeches, 1890, of Samuel Legerwood Patterson; and other family records including a law student's diary at Yale, 1840. Correspondence, chiefly 1833-1880, concerns a wide variety of family and business matters of the Pattersons and of other prominent persons to whom they were related, and their political activity throughout the nineteenth century, including many state and local offices they held. There are a few papers of Lindsay Patterson and of his wife Lucy (Patterson) Patterson. |
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| Lenoir Family Papers, 1763-1940, 1969-1975 | |||||||||||
| Lenoir family members include William Lenoir, Revolutionary War general and N.C. politician of Fort Defiance, Caldwell County, N.C.; Lenoir's friend and father in law of two of Lenoir's sons Waightstill Avery, lawyer, legislator, and signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration; and his son in law Israel Pickens, N.C. congressman, 1811-1817, governor of Alabama, 1821-1825, and U.S. senator from Alabama, 1826. Also important are William Lenoir's children, especially William Ballard Lenoir of Roane County, Tenn.; Thomas and his wife Selina Louisa Avery Lenoir of Fort Defiance; and Walter Raleigh Lenoir of Boone County, Mo. Much material relates to Thomas and Selina's children, especially William Avery Lenoir; Sarah (Sade) Jones Lenoir of Fort Defiance; Walter Waightstill, a lawyer in Lenoir, N.C., and his wife Cornelia Isabella Christian Lenoir; Thomas Isaac and his wife Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Garrett Lenoir of the family plantation at East Fork of Pigeon, Haywood County, N.C.; Rufus Theodore and his wife Sarah Leonora (Sallie) Gwyn Lenoir of Fort Defiance; son in law Joseph Caldwell Norwood, a teacher in Hillsborough, N.C.; and cousin William Bingham of the Bingham School in Orange County, N.C. There is also material relating to the children of Rufus and Sallie, including Thomas Ballard of Fort Defiance; Rufus Theodore, Jr., of Athens, Ga., and his wife Clyde Lyndon Lenoir; and to members of the related Avery, Norwood, and Pickens families. Correspondence chiefly centers on General William Lenoir of Fort Defiance, Caldwell County, N.C., and his children, especially William Ballard Lenoir of Roane County, Tenn.; Thomas and his wife Selina Louisa Avery Lenoir of Fort Defiance; Walter Raleigh Lenoir of Boone County, Mo.; and son in law Israel Pickens, N.C. congressman, 1811-1817, governor of Alabama, 1821-1825, and U.S. senator from Alabama, 1826. | |||||||||||
| McBee Family Papers, 1754-1937 | |||||||||||
| The McBee family of Lincoln County, N.C., and Greenville, S.C., included Vardry McBee (1775-1864), planter, railroad official and promoter, and mill owner of Lincolnton and Greenville; his son, Vardry Alexander McBee (1818-1904), lawyer, planter, and railroad official and promoter, of Lincolnton; and his grandson, Vardry McBee (1860?-1938), Episcopal clergyman and musician in Wilkes County, N.C. The collection consists of family correspondence and business papers including Lincoln County, N.C., deeds; contracts, bills, accounts, promissory notes, and receipts; estate settlements, bankruptcy proceedings, and guardianship papers; records of two Lincoln County clerks of court; and minutes of the Lincoln County Agricultural Society. Family letters written at Greenville, S.C., 1849-1869, give information about the McBees' varied enterprises, building construction, and property there, and activities of members of the family. Other correspondence refers to efforts to establish a college at Lincolnton, college students at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and East Tennessee College in Knoxville, plank road plans, slaves, the Civil War, and postwar conditions in Greenville. Papers, 1872-1900, relate chiefly to business, especially railroads and the development of industrial sites in Greenville, including Camperdown Mills. Twentieth century correspondence, largely personal, includes letters from Silas McBee (1853-1924) and other McBees, North Carolina Episcopal Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire (1850-1932), and one from Sumner McBee, giving a first-hand account of the chase of Pancho Villa by United States cavalry. Also included are diaries, 1857-1860, 1878, of Vardry Alexander McBee, with brief entries concerning plantation and slave work, news of family and friends, court and railroad activities, and weather, and account books, 1852-1872, and papers relating to his position as the treasurer of the Wilmington, Charlotte, and Rutherford Railroad. Vardry McBee (1775-1864) was the son of Captain McBee, a Virginian who settled in what is now upper South Carolina prior to 1770. Captain McBee was constable of Tryon County in 1770 and later fought on the Whig side in the Revolution. He owned valuable lands in the Spartanburg district, including Limestone Springs, but lost them shortly after the Revolution, apparently as the result of poor management. | |||||||||||
| James W. Patton Papers (#1739) 1798-1923, 1999 | |||||||||||
| James W. Patton (1803-1861), contractor and merchant of Asheville, N.C., was born in Wilkes County, N.C., to James, an Irish immigrant, and Anne Reynolds Patton of Wilkes County. The family moved to Buncombe County in about 1807, and James lived in and around Asheville for the remainder of his life. Papers of a 19th-century Asheville, N.C., family and their relatives in South Carolina and Maryland. The collection consists chiefly of personal correspondence, including antebellum letters received by Asheville merchant James W. Patton (1803-1861) and his wife, Henrietta Kerr Patton, mostly from Kerr relatives in Charleston, S.C., about family matters; letters of their son, Thomas Walton Patton (1841-1907), politician and mayor of Asheville, while he was a captain in the 60th North Carolina Regiment during the Civil War in Tennessee and Georgia, and while he was a volunteer officer in the Spanish-American War; and letters from Fannie Patton, a student at Saint Mary's School in Raleigh, N.C., 1862. There are also letters exchanged, 1798-1808, by James Calder (d. 1808), Maryland planter, and his son George Calder (1778-1809), United States Navy officer, relatives of Martha Turner Patton, wife of Thomas Walton Patton, concerning the Calders' Maryland plantation, naval affairs, yellow fever, and other matters. Also included are newspaper clippings of articles about members of the Patton, Turner, and Parker families; an account and notebook, 1892, of Thomas Walton Patton on a European trip; a memorial volume, 1918-1923, by the Asheville chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy; a photograph, ca. 1886, of the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity at the University of North Carolina, one of whose members was Haywood Parker, husband of Thomas Walton Patton's daughter Josie; and a videotape, Thomas Walton Patton: Asheville's Citizen and Soldier. | |||||||||||
| James Larkin Pearson Papers, 1952-1966 | |||||||||||
| James Larkin Pearson (1879-1981) of Wilkes County and Guilford County, N.C., was the North Carolina poet laureate, 1953-1981, and a newspaper publisher. The collection includes mimeographed letters, clippings, and other materials relating to the poems and family life of James Larkin Pearson. This material was apparently accumulated by David Leroy Corbitt. | |||||||||||
| Proffit Family Letters, 1860-1865, 1882 | |||||||||||
| William and Mary Proffit lived near Lewis Fork Post Office, Wilkes County, N.C. The collection is chiefly Civil War letters of the Proffit's four sons, to their parents and sister at home, and to each other. The letters discuss the farm and family and events in Wilkes County, and also army life and activities. All three sons served in North Carolina regiments in the Virginia theatre of the war. William H. Proffit was in Company B, 1st North Carolina Regiment, primarily in northern Virginia. He died in hospital at Gordonsville, Va., in October 1863. Alfred N. and Andrew J. Proffit were both in Company D, 18th North Carolina Regiment. Alfred spent time at hospitals in Richmond, Staunton, and Lynchburg, Va., and participated in most of the major battles in Virginia. Andrew saw action in Maryland and West Virginia in 1862, was captured and exchanged twice, and spent time in a hospital in Richmond. Calvin Luther Proffit was in Company H, 13th North Carolina Regiment, primarily along the Rappahannock River. He died in camp, March 1863. | |||||||||||
| Waugh and Finley Account Books (pdf) | |||||||||||
| The Waugh and Finley general store operated in Wilkesboro [formerly Wilkesborough] in Wilkes County, N.C. from 1815 to 1827. The Waugh family settled first in York County [later Adams County], Pennsylvania. Around 1803, William Pitt Waugh (1775-1852) moved with several brothers to Wilkes County, North Carolina. Waugh obtained slaves and land in Moravian Falls, where he built a house and a mill. His nephew, John Finley (1778-1865), arrived from Virginia a couple of years later and followed his uncle’s lead in the acquisition of property. Together, the two men established a general store in Wilkesboro. They hired Finley’s nephew and Waugh’s great-nephew, Samuel Finley Patterson (1799-1874); Finley married Ellen or Elenor Tate (1782-1852) in Augusta County, Virginia. The proprietors were William Pitt Waugh and his nephew, John Finley. This collection consists of four day books, which itemize transactions by date. In addition, the collection has loose-leaf papers, which have been gathered together in one box of folders. Recorded merchandise includes food staples, cookware, clothing, stationery, books, postage, and hardware. Attached to this finding aid are two tables of customers’ names for the store. (4 volumes). Some names from the books: Jesse Alexander, Richard Allen, James Bagh, John Barnes, Joel Bingham, Wright Bass, Absalom Bowers, Samuel Brooks, [Widow] Brown, William Campbell, William Cargill, Lewis Carlton, Lewis Cash, Gordon Chavers, John Church, Benjamin Clay, Joseph Colvard, George Crouch, John Dancy, William Davis, William Dimit, Solomon Doss, John Dula, Wilborn Ellison, Samuel Fife, John Forrister, Jeremiah Gilreath, John W. Gordon, Nathaniel Gordon, Richmond Gordon, Sarah Gordon, Betsy William Hamby, George Hays, Jeremiah Holdway, Richard Good, Abednego Harp, John Jarvis, Benjamin Jones, John Jones, Joseph Jones, John Judd, Roland Judd, Joseph Laws, Walter Lenoir, Benjamin Martin, John Martin, Ralph McGoe, Al McKenzie, John McNeil, Henry Miller, Ruben Most, Benjamin Newland, Isaac Perleer, Samuel Prophet, John Reynolds, Starling Rose, William Sebastan, John Saintclair, Leonard Sale, John Shoemaker, Joshua Shoemate, Ann Brown Sporder, David Stokes, Mumfort Stokes, A. Tomlinson, Thomas Triplett, Joel Vannoy, Claborn Waddle, John Walker, Allen Webb, James Welborn, John Witherspoon, Gibson Adams, Isaac Cale, Lewis Carlton, Jesse Colvard, Thomas Crumpler, John Elledge, H. Ellis, Ambrose Foster, Nathaniel Gordon, John Grasty, Benjamin Grayson, John Hanley, John Hawkins, M.L. Hill, Henry Holder, Joseph James, Daniel Jennings, Jeffrey Johnson, John Lacey, George V. Massey, Darel McDaniel, J.W. Nicholas, John Nicholas, John Orr, Seth Osborn, John Patterson, Samuel F. Patterson, David Puryear, J. Rickett, H.B. Satterwhite, Jacob Shoe, Allen Underwood, Barnett Wyat, Andrew Young. | |||||||||||
| Wilkes County Miscellaneous Documents, 1782-1868 | |||||||||||
| Miscellaneous papers from Wilkes County, N.C., including land grants, 1782-1802; commissions of local officials, 1804-1868; and the annual returns for the Wilkes County Regiment of the Ninth Brigade of the North Carolina militia, 1801. | |||||||||||
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