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1732–1807 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
4 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes one work by Thomas Jefferson.
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July 1807 correspondence of Governor Nathaniel Alexander, 115 images, including a letter from President Thomas Jefferson. The month's business ranges over Bertie, Chatham, Northampton, Pasquotank and Orange counties.
Governor Abner Nash's letters for August 1780, the month of the American defeat at Camden, in 51 images. William Williams is among the writers, and Richard Caswell, Alexander Martin, Thomas Jefferson and the Continental Congress are named, as are Hillsborough and Chatham, Hyde and Pasquotank counties.
Correspondence of Governor Abner Nash for October 1780, in 35 images, with Robert Salter among the writers. Names include Robert Howe, Samuel Huntington, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Caswell and Alexander Martin, and Hillsborough, Hyde and Pitt counties also appear.
September 1780 letters of Governor Abner Nash, 40 images, from the weeks after the defeat at Camden. Francis Brice is among the writers, and Horatio Gates, William Lee Davidson, Thomas Jefferson and the Continental Congress are named, together with Hillsborough and Orange County.
Reports and papers of the joint select committees of the North Carolina General Assembly from its April to May 1780 session, in 223 images. Items include a Virginia governor's letter on naval officers and duties at the Ocracoke channel, committee appointments, and Henry Mounger's petition on where Montgomery County's public buildings should stand. Orange County is among the many counties touched.
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