John D. Hawkins Paper
Photocopy of letter from Hawkins of Granville Co. to Secretary of the Navy John Y. Mason about arrangements for visit of President James K. Polk to Gaston, Raleigh, and Chapel Hill for the university commencement.
Person in the county’s record
“U.S. President, 1845-49. Born nearby in house no longer standing. Land & reconstructed buildings now State Historic Site.”
State historical marker: L-78: James K. Polk 1795-1849
5 works in the index name this person, and 1 more are by them.
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Photocopy of letter from Hawkins of Granville Co. to Secretary of the Navy John Y. Mason about arrangements for visit of President James K. Polk to Gaston, Raleigh, and Chapel Hill for the university commencement.
Paper of the Webb family of Granville and Orange couties. Correspondence (1839-1881) includes letters from relatives in Tennessee, New York (1858), and North Carolina, with comments on President Polk's visit to UNC (185…
The Nathaniel Jones of Crabtree Papers document Nathaniel Jones (d. 1828), his son Kimbrough Jones (d. 1866), members of a Wake County, North Carolina family of planters, legislators, and Council of State members; Mary …
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