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1750–1828 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
4 indexed works are connected with this person.
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William Hawkins, governor from 1811 to 1814, who had studied at Princeton, kept these letters from January 1814. Among the 45 images are letters of John P. Leonard, with topics such as the militia, military supplies, extradition and public printing. Chapel Hill and Hillsborough appear with Beaufort, Brunswick and Wake counties.
October 1813 letters to and from Governor William Hawkins, 41 images, with Francis K. Huger and Thomas Pinckney among the names. Inland navigation and the Dismal Swamp Canal come up beside boundaries, the militia and supplies, and Chapel Hill appears with Ocracoke and Brunswick and Caswell counties.
July 1788, the month a state convention met at Hillsborough to weigh the federal Constitution, fills 62 images of Governor Samuel Johnston's papers. Correspondents include Henry Knox, Thomas Pinckney, Montfort Stokes, Joseph Martin and Stockley Donelson, and the State of Franklin and Cherokee, Chickasaw and Creek affairs recur.
John Sevier, leader of the State of Franklin, is among the writers in Samuel Johnston's March 1788 papers. Other names include John Baptista Ashe, Benjamin Hawkins, Thomas Pinckney, James White and Richard Winn, with Cherokee, Chickasaw and Creek affairs and Hillsborough also present. Thirty-four images.
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