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Collection Number: 00366

Collection Title: James Iredell Collection, 1807-1841.

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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.

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Size 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 30 items)
Abstract James Iredell (1788-1853) was a lawyer, North Carolina governor, and United States senator. The collection is legal fee books of James Iredell, 1807-1832 and 1841, at Edenton and Raleigh, N.C., and slides and negatives.
Creator Iredell, James, 1788-1853.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the James Iredell Account Books, #366, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Information about the acquisition of the account books not available. The slides and negatives were received in June 2007 from the Presbyterian Historical Society (Acc. 100702).
Additional Descriptive Resources
A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009

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.

Finding aid updated in December 2018 because of addition.

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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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1788 James Iredell, Jr. born in Edenton, N.C.
1806 Graduated Princeton University
1807 Began practicing law in Edenton, N.C.
1812 Served as captain, United States army, War of 1812
1813, 1816-1828 Served in North Carolina State House of Commons
1819- Judge for Superior Court
1827-1828 Governor of North Carolina
1828-1831 United States senator
1836-1837 Member of commission to revise state laws
1840-1852 Reporter for Supreme Court
1853 Died, Edenton, N.C.
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The collection is two legal fee books, 1807-1832 and 1841, at Edenton and Raleigh, N.C., of Iredell, and slides and negatives.

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Contents list

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Approximately 26 items.

Acquisitions Information: Accession 100702

These are all color transparencies on sheet film of painted portraits.

Image Folder PF-00366/1

Arthur Iredell (James Iredell’s brother)

Image Folder PF-00366/2

Judge James Iredell’s mother

Image Folder PF-00366/3

James Iredell (son of Governor James Iredell)

Image Folder PF-00366/4

Samuel Johnson Iredell (son of Governor James Iredell)

Image Folder PF-00366/5

Max Patch, North Carolina (pastel by Johnson, Sr.)

Image Folder PF-00366/6

"Johnson Homeplace, Raleigh, North Carolina (watercolor by some returned missionary friend of Johnson, Sr. [China])"

Image Folder PF-00366/7

Governor Samuel Johnson and Judge James Iredell (Pelle miniatures)

Image Folder PF-00366/8

Mark Johnson (pencil sketch by Johnson, Sr.)

Image Folder PF-00366/9

Mrs. James Iredell

Image Folder PF-00366/10

Governor James Iredell

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