Indexed works
Works about or by William Boylan. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
Walter Alves papers, 1771-1858, Orange County, North Carolina : also Kentucky and Tennessee.
Alves, Walter, 1768-1819 · 1993 · University Publications of America
University Publications of America issued this two reel microfilm edition in 1993, reproducing the Walter Alves papers of 1771 to 1858 with a printed reel guide. Alves, 1768 to 1819, was an Orange County landowner, and the material runs to real estate investment in North Carolina and Tennessee, Scottish American families, and letters with Richard Bennehan, William Boylan and John Wickham.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Boylan, William, 1777-1861.
Correspondence of David Paton, superintendent of construction and architect of the State Capitol in Raleigh, N.C.
Town, Ithiel, 1784-1844 · 1834
Letters of David Paton, the architect who superintended construction of the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh, 1834 to 1850. Ithiel Town writes about the building commissioners, Paton's changes to Town's plan and his own work in Indianapolis. Other correspondents include Loammi Baldwin, William Boylan, Romulus M. Saunders and James C. Dobbin, and the letters touch on building materials and a horse railroad. Chapel Hill appears. 137 pages.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Boylan, William, 1777-1861.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
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Collections and databases
- NC LIVE: prepared search for William Boylan Library card Search NC LIVE for this subject and Orange County. You can change the search terms. Sign in through your North Carolina library to access the materials.
- Ancestry Library Edition In the libraryOrange County Public Library Census, birth, death and marriage records, and more, free on the public computers at OCPL libraries
