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Will White diary and notebook
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Will White diary and notebook, 1786-1797 (inclusive), [microform].
Physical Description
1 reel.
Language
English
Notes
Microfilm. Raleigh, North Carolina, North Carolina Division of Archives and History. 1989. 1 reel, 35mm.
The original is in the North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Biographical / Historical Note
William White was a government clerk, legislator form Lenoir County (1792-1798), and secretary of state (1798-1811).
Summary
A notebook kept by William White including a brief diary of a trip from Kinston to the General Assembly at Fayetteville (November 1786), describing weather, accomodations, and clothes taken; notes on grants and deeds, accounts to be settled, business with Governor Caswell, items to be bought, and livestock; receipt for sum earned by Jesse Wingate, quartermaster (1787); and dates (1787-1793) of his marriage, daughter's birth, and slave births.
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Archives or Manuscripts / Microforms
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
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