Indexed works
Works about or by John Rutledge. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
Governors' Papers: Richard Caswell, Correspondence, March 1780
Lillington, John A. · 1780
March 1780 letters of Governor Richard Caswell, in 63 images, from the last weeks of his first run as governor. John A. Lillington is among the writers, and Benjamin Lincoln, Samuel Huntington, John Rutledge and Charles Thomson are named, with Camden, Duplin, Hertford, Wayne and Orange counties.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Rutledge, John, 1739-1800.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
October-November, 1779: Joint Select Committees (Chiefly appointments and referrals)
North Carolina. General Assembly · 1779
Messages, reports and referrals of the General Assembly's joint select committees from October and November 1779, 97 pages in all. Business ranges over public money and depreciation, army supply, militia, taxation, land titles and appointments, and names include Governor Richard Caswell, Abner Nash, Edmund Fanning and the printer James Davis. Orange County is among the counties touched.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Rutledge, John, 1739-1800.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Governors' Papers: Richard Caswell, Correspondence, July 1777
Bonner, Henry · 1777
Governor Richard Caswell's letters for July 1777, 115 images, with Henry Bonner among the writers. William Hooper, William Churchill Houston, Hardy Murfree and John Rutledge are named, and the counties concerned include Anson, Bladen, Camden, Chatham and Orange.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Rutledge, John, 1739-1800.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
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