Indexed works
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House Joint Resolutions: Apr. 21-30
North Carolina. General Assembly · 1783
Joint resolutions of the House of Commons, April 21 to 30, 1783, from the session at Hillsborough. They include pardons for people sentenced to death, the accounts of Waightstill Avery, supplies credited to Matthew Rabun by the Halifax district auditors, and questions of loyalists and treason. 64 images.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Avery, Waightstill, 1741-1821.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
House Joint Resolutions: May 1-17, 1783
North Carolina. General Assembly · 1783
House joint resolutions of May 1 to 17, 1783, from the Assembly's Hillsborough session. They settle what was owed to Samuel Johnston and Whitmell Hill, former delegates to Congress, review the court-martial of Chowan County's Colonel James Blount, and touch on Moravians, Quakers, Mennonites and Cherokee affairs. 73 images.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Avery, Waightstill, 1741-1821.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Joint Select Committees: reports and papers Apr. 19-May 2
North Carolina. General Assembly · 1783
Committee reports and papers of the North Carolina General Assembly from 19 April to 2 May 1783, in 84 images. Petitions came from John Fleetwood of Wayne County and David Dodd of Duplin County, with reports on the militia law and on the claim of Basel Smith. Hillsborough, confiscations, prisoners of war and Continental Army pay also figure in the session.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Avery, Waightstill, 1741-1821.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
May 13: House bill to open land office for the redemption of specie and other certificates (protest only)
North Carolina. General Assembly · 1783
Protest against a May 1783 House bill opening a land office for the redemption of specie and other certificates. Waightstill Avery, Cherokee lands and the Holston River are connected to it. Two images from the General Assembly's session at Hillsborough.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Avery, Waightstill, 1741-1821.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
House Joint Resolutions, May 10 - May 17
North Carolina. General Assembly · 1782
House joint resolutions of May 10 to 17, 1782, with petitions and committee reports, from the General Assembly session at Hillsborough. Subjects run from loyalists, treason and disabled veterans to land grants and public finance; Nathanael Greene, Waightstill Avery and Joseph Dickson are among the names. 89 images.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Avery, Waightstill, 1741-1821.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
House Joint Resolutions, May 3 - May 9
North Carolina. General Assembly · 1782
House joint resolutions of May 3 to 9, 1782, largely acting on petitions from individuals, among them Timothy Bloodworth and Henry Williams. Matters include poll tax exemptions, disabled veterans, sheriffs and clerks, confiscations and militia drafts. From the Hillsborough session; 107 images.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Avery, Waightstill, 1741-1821.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
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May 1: Senate bill to confirm certain patents therein specified, issued in Va. (petition and protest only)
North Carolina. General Assembly · 1782
Petition and protest on a Senate bill of 1 May 1782 confirming certain land patents issued by Virginia. Waightstill Avery and Sullivan County, in what is now Tennessee, are connected to it. Six images from the General Assembly's session at Hillsborough.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Avery, Waightstill, 1741-1821.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Senate Joint Resolutions, May 7 - May 15
North Carolina. General Assembly · 1782
Senate joint resolutions of 7 to 15 May 1782, 76 images with messages, a committee report and petitions. Among them: Francis Newby of Franklin County, David Marshall of New Bern, and Dennis O'Bryan, George Duncan and Joseph Pitman of Granville County. Thomas Burke, Willie Jones and Waightstill Avery figure in the papers, and Hillsborough is among the places tied to them.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Avery, Waightstill, 1741-1821.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Governors' Papers: Richard Caswell, Correspondence, August 1777
Caswell, Richard, 1729-1789 · 1777
Richard Caswell's correspondence for August 1777, in 81 images, from his first year as governor of the new state. He wrote some of the letters himself. Waightstill Avery, John Hancock, Charles Lee, Hardy Murfree and Charles Thomson are named, and the counties concerned include Anson, Bladen, Camden, Chatham, Dobbs and Orange.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Avery, Waightstill, 1741-1821.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Lenoir family papers, 1763-1936, 1975 (Series 1.1.b).
Lenoir (Family : Lenoir, William, 1751-1839) · 1763
Series 1.1.b of the Lenoir family papers, drawn from 13,200 items in 24.5 linear feet dated 1763 to 1936 with a 1975 addition, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. The family seat was Fort Defiance, and topics include the American Revolution and the Battle of King's Mountain, plantations in North Carolina and Tennessee, slavery in Tennessee, and schooling at the Bingham School and Salem Academy.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Avery, Waightstill, 1741-1821.
