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From the state marker“Governor, 1830-1832; U.S. Senator; Federal Indian Commissioner. Home stood 1 mi. N.”
State historical marker: M-2: Montfort Stokes 1762-1842
1762–1842 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
4 works about Montfort Stokes are indexed here, as is one work by Stokes.
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August 1788 papers of Governor Samuel Johnston, 42 images. Montfort Stokes, Hugh Williamson, Richard Winn and Charles Thomson are among the correspondents. Relations with the Cherokee, Chickasaw and Creek peoples and the State of Franklin run through the month, and Hillsborough is named.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Legislative documents the North Carolina General Assembly ordered printed for its sessions of 1831 to 1835, with reports on canals, roads, railroads, banks, the militia, schools and the university, the Cherokee and slavery, among other business. Governors Montfort Stokes and David L. Swain figure in them; Swain later became president of the University of North Carolina. 602 images.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Stokes, Montfort, 1762-1842.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
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.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Stokes, Montfort, 1762-1842.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
About 125 items from William Lytle, 1755 to 1829, dated 1773 to 1841 with the bulk before 1805, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 445-z. Topics include the North Carolina militia in the Revolution, land tenure in Tennessee, migration out of the southern states, and Cherokee relations with government in the eighteenth century. Hillsborough history is the Orange County link.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Stokes, Montfort, 1762-1842.
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