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James Reed

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  1. Senator James A. Reed of Missouri speaks in Memorial Hall Senator James A. Reed, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, spoke in Memorial Hall at the invitation of the student paper, the Tar Heel. The Weekly reported a long review of American history followed by a fierce attack on Republican corruption and a call to drop prohibition statutes for moral suasion. Place: Memorial Hall, UNC campus, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 30, 1928, p. 1

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Joint Papers (April-May, 1780): Joint Select Committee Reports and Papers

North Carolina. General Assembly · 1780

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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Reed, James, -1777.

NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

Session of November-December, 1771: Joint Resolutions, November 28-December 23

North Carolina. General Assembly · 1771

Joint resolutions of the General Assembly, 28 November to 23 December 1771, passed in the months after the Battle of Alamance. They favor claimants such as James Alford of Wake County, Robert Howe, Wilmington jailer David Pollock and John Fulford, whose money had burned, and touch on disabled veterans and widows. Seventy-one images.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Reed, James, -1777.

NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

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