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W. W. Holden

Also found in catalogs as W. W. (William Woods) Holden.

1818–1892 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. The Recorder endorses Vance but refuses to print soldiers' charges against Holden Dennis Heartt printed resolutions from the men of Dickson's Battery backing Governor Vance but left out two: one that denounced W. W. Holden and one he read as scorning every man not in the army as a coward. He wrote that Holden sought an honorable peace and that no evidence made him a traitor, and he kept that stand when Raleigh papers objected. People: Dennis Heartt, W. W. Holden, Zebulon B. Vance Place: Recorder office, HillsboroughHillsborough Recorder, April 20, 1864, p. 2
  2. Three justices, one of them Black, investigate a fight and a shooting at Durham's Governor W. W. Holden sent Lt. Thomas H. Hay and J.P. W. F. Strayhorn the complaint of freedman Henry Goss that Samuel Rodgers, a white man, had struck him and that he struck back in self-defense. On October 30, 1868 Strayhorn, Hay and Richard Mayo, a Black justice of the peace, found an affray in which both men were to blame and Rodgers was worst hurt, and sent it to superior court; when Rodgers had been reported killed, a party set out to arrest Goss and Theophilus Chavis, and someone fired a pistol as Chavis ran, but who fired, or at whom, could not be learned, and Hay saw no need for troops at Durham's. People: W. W. Holden Place: Durham's Station, Orange County (now Durham) · Also named: Henry Goss, Samuel Rodgers, Theophilus Chavis, W. F. Strayhorn, Richard Mayo, Thomas H. HaySearch the index · Freedmen's Bureau, North Carolina Field Offices, Hillsboro: Endorsements Sent and Received, Vol. 131, July 1867–Dec. 1868, transcription p. 72
  3. Governor Holden reports fifty state troops posted at Hillsborough In a letter of July 20, 1870 asking President Grant for federal troops, Governor W. W. Holden counted his state forces and listed fifty white men at Hillsborough, with Kirk's 350 in Alamance and Caswell and others at Raleigh and in Gaston County. The letter survives here as a War Department abstract printed in the appendix of the Senate select committee's report. People: W. W. Holden Place: HillsboroughU.S. Senate, Select Committee, Report on the Alleged Outrages in the Southern States (1871), p. XLV
  4. Josiah Turner Jr. asks Justices Dick and Settle for a bench warrant against Holden, Kirk and Bergen After Kirk's men arrested him at Hillsborough, Josiah Turner Jr. filed an affidavit and applied to Justices Dick and Settle of the state supreme court for a bench warrant against Governor Holden and Colonels Kirk and Bergen. The justices had counsel argue whether a warrant could issue against the governor and whether the colonels could be taken outside the insurrection counties, with Mr. Bailey on one side and William H. Battle on the other, according to Battle's testimony before the Senate committee on February 13, 1871; he read his argument from the Daily Sentinel of October 7, 1870. People: Josiah Turner Jr., W. W. Holden, William Horn Battle Place: before the state supreme court justices (place not stated) · Also named: George W. KirkU.S. Senate, Select Committee, Report on the Alleged Outrages in the Southern States (1871), p. 162
  5. Orange Superior Court dismisses the assault case against W. W. Holden under the amnesty act Judge Tourgee dismissed the indictment of former Governor W. W. Holden for the 1870 arrest of Josiah Turner Jr. by Lt. John Hunnicutt of the state troops, ruling it covered by the amnesty and pardon act of March 3, 1873; Turner, the prosecutor, was first denied an appeal and then granted one. People: W. W. Holden, Josiah Turner Jr., Albion W. Tourgee Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: John HunnicuttHillsborough Recorder, November 5, 1873, p. 3

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Letter: George A. Williams to his family, April 5, 1864

Williams, George A. · 1864

George A. Williams of the 7th North Carolina Infantry wrote his parents and children on 5 April 1864 that he was safely back in camp and the men were faring well. He reports days of cold, rain and snow and hopes for a move to Camp Holmes. Governor Vance, W. W. Holden, food, health and talk of peace also come up.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Holden, W. W. (William Woods), 1818-1892.

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John H. Wheeler (1806-1882) Diaries and Papers

Wheeler, John H. · 1854

Diaries and papers of John Hill Wheeler of Hertford County, historian, legislator, state treasurer from 1843 to 1845 and minister to Nicaragua from 1854 to 1857. The diaries, a broken run from 1854 to 1882, follow his social and political life in Washington, D.C. University commencements at Chapel Hill and his work on North Carolina history also come up. State Archives of North Carolina, MfP.51.

Included because: Catalog heading in the State Archives of NC record: Holden, W. W. (William Woods), 1818-1892.

State Archives of NC

Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick papers,

Hedrick, Benjamin Sherwood · 1848

Papers of Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, the UNC chemistry professor dismissed in 1856 for opposing slavery and backing the Republican candidate John C. Fremont. Most of the 6,037 items, from 1848, are letters to Hedrick: early ones exchanged with Mary Ellen Thompson before their marriage, then others on university life at Chapel Hill, his dismissal, and his later career in Washington with the Patent Office. Correspondents include David L. Swain and Kemp P. Battle.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Holden, W. W. -- 1818-1892.

Duke

Calvin J. Cowles (1821-1907) Papers

Cowles, Calvin J. (Calvin Josiah), 1821-1907 · 1817

Papers of Calvin J. Cowles, 1817 to 1885. A Wilkes County merchant, Cowles was a Unionist Whig and later a Republican, presided over the Constitutional Convention of 1868 and ran the United States Branch Mint at Charlotte from 1869 to 1884. Early letters involve his father and business partner Josiah of Surry County. Reconstruction, Governor W. W. Holden and Orange County come up. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.111.

Included because: Catalog heading in the State Archives of NC record: Holden, W. W. (William Woods), 1818-1892.

State Archives of NC

David L. Swain papers, 1807-1877 (bulk 1833-1868)

Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868 · 1807

David L. Swain, 1801 to 1868, served as governor of North Carolina and then as president of the university at Chapel Hill. His papers span 1807 to 1877 with the bulk from 1833 to 1868. Subjects include Cornelia Phillips Spencer, Elisha Mitchell, W. W. Holden and Thomas Ruffin, and cover state politics, railroads, and records of enslaved people. Microfilm reels were made in 1949 and 1974.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Holden, W. W. (William Woods), 1818-1892.

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William Andrew Jeffreys (1817-1845) and Family Papers

Jeffreys family · 1786

Papers of William Andrew Jeffreys, Franklin County lawyer and state senator, and his uncle Robert N. Jeffreys of Wake County, 1786 to 1883. They include grand jury indictments and road reports from 1839 to 1842, an 1844 plan for a literary, scientific and military academy in Raleigh, and family letters on plantations, slavery, politics and travel. Chapel Hill and the Hillsborough Military Academy come up. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.66.

Included because: Catalog heading in the State Archives of NC record: Holden, W. W. (William Woods), 1818-1892.

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Crabtree Jones Papers

Jones family · 1771

Papers of the Jones family of Crabtree in Wake County, 1771 to 1940: planter and legislator Nathaniel Jones (died 1828), his son Kimbrough Jones (died 1866), Mary Warren Jones, and Kimbrough Jones Jr. and his wife Mary Green Jones. Topics include plantations and enslaved people, cotton, politics and the Civil War. Chapel Hill also comes up. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.105.

Included because: Catalog heading in the State Archives of NC record: Holden, W. W. (William Woods), 1818-1892.

State Archives of NC

Pollock-Devereux Papers

Devereux family · 1730

Property and legal papers of the Pollock and Devereux families, 1730 to 1866: deeds for land in Bertie, Halifax, Martin, Franklin and Northampton counties, plats of the family's Hawfields land in Orange County, and papers on lawsuits and tenants. Bills of sale and other documents record enslaved people owned by the families. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.32.

Included because: Catalog heading in the State Archives of NC record: Holden, W. W. (William Woods), 1818-1892.

State Archives of NC

John Heritage Bryan (1798-1870) Collection

Bryan, John Heritage, 1798-1870 · 1716

Papers of John Heritage Bryan (1798 to 1870), New Bern lawyer, legislator and Whig congressman from 1825 to 1829, dating 1716 to 1907. His letters mostly follow social life in the towns and plantations of eastern North Carolina, chiefly New Bern and Raleigh, from the 1820s to the 1860s, and touch the university at Chapel Hill and the Hillsborough Academy.

Included because: Catalog heading in the State Archives of NC record: Holden, W. W. (William Woods), 1818-1892.

State Archives of NC

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