Person in the county’s record
1798–1866 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster as Francis L. Hawks → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
The index holds 2 works for Francis L. (Francis Lister) Hawks so far. Search further, by the Library of Congress heading: WorldCat · OCPL. If you know a source, tell us.
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Kron family letters of Stanly County, 1827 to 1901: Dr. Francis Joseph Kron's correspondence with Francis L. Hawks, Nicholas Marcellus Hentz and Governor Thomas Bragg, and later letters from Adelaide and Elizabeth Kron written after his death. Among them is his letter declining an appointment as a trustee, and the University of North Carolina figures in the correspondence. Part of North Carolina Memory.
Moses Ashley Curtis, a botanist, works through the natural history in Francis L. Hawks's History of North Carolina and comments on what he finds there. John B. Neathery printed it at Chapel Hill, probably about 1860.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Hawks, Francis L. (Francis Lister), 1798-1866.
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