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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Eccles Family Papers, #3504, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Catherine Jones pierce of Durham and Charlotte, N.C., 1960-1970.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, September 2009; Nancy Kaiser, December 2021

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Blankes family.
• Carroll County (Miss.)--History.
• Chatham County (N.C.)--History.
• Cumberland County (N.C.)--History.
• DeBerniere family.
• Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844.
• Eccles family.
• Eccles, John Dicks, 1792-1856.
• Family--Mississippi--Social life and customs.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Fayetteville (N.C.)--History.
• Federalist Party (N.C.)
• Genealogists--North Carolina--Correspondence.
• Health resorts--New York (State)--History--19th century.
• Holmes family.
• Irish Americans--North Carolina--History.
• Jones family.
• Jones, Edward, 1762-1841.
• McLaurin family.
• Merchants--North Carolina--History.
• New Hanover County (N.C.)--History.
• North Carolina--Genealogy.
• North Carolina--Politics and government--1775-1865.
• Parsley family.
• Pierce, Catherine Jones.
• Sampson County (N.C.)--History.
• Saratoga Springs (N.Y.)--Description and travel.
• Wilmington (N.C.)--History.
• Women--Mississippi--Social conditions.
• Women--North Carolina--Social conditions.

• Abram Rencher Papers (#627).

Edward Jones (1762-1841) of Wilmington and Fayetteville, N.C., native of Ireland, was a merchant, lawyer, and solicitor-general of North Carolina. His son-in-law, John Dick Eccles (died 1856), was also of Fayetteville.

The collection includes correspondence and other papers of Edward Jones (1762-1841) of Wilmington and Fayetteville, N.C., native of Ireland, merchant, lawyer, and solicitor-general of North Carolina; and of his son-in-law, John Dick Eccles (died 1856), also of Fayetteville. Included are a series of letters written from Saratoga Springs, N.Y., in 1843, describing medical treatment and the declining health of Edward J. Eccles (died circa 1843); and a letter, 18 November 1847, describing a visit to the Peale home in Philadelphia. Also included is correspondence of members of the McLaurin, Hooper, DeBerniere, Holmes, and other families of Cumberland, New Hanover, Chatham, and Sampson counties, N.C., Carroll County, Miss., New Orleans, La., and other places. Edward Jones's correspondence, beginning in the 1780s, includes letters from his friend Peter Stephen Du Ponceau, Philadelphia lawyer and author, and from several North Carolina Federalist leaders concerning state and national politics. Also included in the collection are two other series of letters, one from the Holmes family (copies only) of Fayetteville and Wilmington, N.C., and Carroll County, Miss., the majority of which were written by women during the antebellum period, discussing Holmes and Blankes family life, economic conditions, and the splintering of the family; and the other of the Parsley family of Wilmington. Also included are transcript copies and extensive notes on these letters and on family history by Catherine Holmes (Jones) Pierce of Durham, N.C.

Oversize papers (OPF-3504/1).