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Works about or by John (2nd Baron Carteret and 2nd Earl Granville) Carteret. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
Dispatches from Josiah Martin to the Earl of Dartmouth numbered 21-24, enclosing copies of legislation
2019 · Adam Matthew Digital
Governor Josiah Martin's numbered dispatches 21 through 24 to the Earl of Dartmouth, with copies of North Carolina legislation enclosed, reproduced by Adam Matthew Digital in 2019 from Colonial Office file CO 5/303 part 2. Subjects include finance and currency, debt and the courts, judges' wages, the council and assembly, voting and taxes, oaths, litigation, sheriffs, inheritance, prisoners, Irish settlers, customs, quitrents, land grants, surveying and mortgages. Names include Arthur Dobbs, William Dry, Willie Jones, John Rutherford and Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Carteret, John (2nd Baron Carteret and 2nd Earl Granville).
Letters and dispatches from William Tryon to the Earl of Hillsborough, October 1768 - May 1769
2019 · Adam Matthew Digital
Governor William Tryon's correspondence with the Earl of Hillsborough for the months from October 1768 to May 1769, just after Tryon marched militia to Hillsborough to protect the court from the Regulators. Adam Matthew Digital reproduced the file, Colonial Office CO 5/301, in 2019. Topics include legislation, Anglican clergy, soldiers' wages, sheriffs, land and quitrents, trade and currency, taxes and education, the Catawba and the boundary line, roads, a murder case, punishment and prison, and people such as Richard Caswell, James Hasell and John Rutherford.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Carteret, John (2nd Baron Carteret and 2nd Earl Granville).
Letters from William Tryon to the Lords Commissioners, enclosing legislation and accounts of the ship 'Brigantine Fox'
2019 · Adam Matthew Digital
Letters from Governor William Tryon to the Lords Commissioners in London, with enclosed legislation and the accounts of the ship Brigantine Fox, reproduced by Adam Matthew Digital in 2019 from Colonial Office file CO 5/300. They show the range of a governor's business: council appointments, judges and courts, assembly acts, cotton manufacturing, poverty, naval stores, rice, tobacco and indigo, currency, the Tuscarora, education, marriage, debt and customs. Hillsborough is among the places named, and people include William Johnston, Richard Henderson, Cornelius Harnett and Samuel Strudwick.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Carteret, John (2nd Baron Carteret and 2nd Earl Granville).
Dispatches from Josiah Martin to the Earl of Dartmouth, enclosing copies of petitions and legislation
1773
Dispatches of 1773 from Governor Josiah Martin to the Earl of Dartmouth, enclosing copies of petitions and acts. The topics range widely: dissenting clergy and marriage, courts and debt, land sales, a church building, indigo, prisons, bridges, epidemics and schooling. Charlotte, Salisbury, Halifax and Wilmington are among the places. The Orange County thread is the Earl of Hillsborough's name, which the town carries.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Carteret, John (2nd Baron Carteret and 2nd Earl Granville).
Dispatch from Josiah Martin to the Earl of Dartmouth, enclosing depositions
1772
Josiah Martin sent a dispatch to the Earl of Dartmouth in 1772 with depositions enclosed, touching on seizures of ships, sheriffs, magistrates, wages and the Regulators. Earl Granville and Ichabod Simpson also appear, with Veracruz among the places. Orange County comes in through the Earl of Hillsborough, for whom the town was named.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Carteret, John (2nd Baron Carteret and 2nd Earl Granville).
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