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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Ezekiel Henry McCluire Papers, #3559, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased from Munroe D'Antignac of Griffin, Ga., November 1961.

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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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, June 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.

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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• Buncombe County (N.C.)--History.
• Lawyers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• McCluire, Ezekiel Henry, fl. 1830-1860.
• Postal service--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Practice of law--North Carolina--History--19th century.

Ezekiel Henry McCluire (fl. 1830-1860) was a lawyer, deputy marshal of the United States, and clerk and master of the Superior Court of Equity for Buncombe County, N.C. His wife was Tabitha Savage McCluire, who taught at Iola Academy in Franklin, N.C., prior to their marriage.

The collection includes deeds, accounts, bills, receipts, and legal proceedings of various persons in Buncombe County, N.C., accumulated by Ezekiel Henry McCluire through his law practice, chiefly 1830-1860; some legal and personal correspondence of McCluire; and postmaster's accounts, Reems Creek, Buncombe County, 1858-1864. Persons mentioned in the legal papers include Zebulon Baird, Daniel Blake, Solomon Brigman, G. K. Cessna, G. D. Phillips, James W. Patton, Walter Beatty, James Greenlee, William Mills, John H. Pearson, Samuel W. Davidson, John D. Poteet, and David L. Swain. There are also some fragmentary notes on travels and accounts and a few letters to other members of the extended McCluire family.