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No restrictions. Open for research.

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 Griffith J. McRee Papers, #479, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Prior to 1940; 1941.

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.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, March 2011

This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.

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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Caruthers, E. W. (Eli Washington), 1793-1865.
• Historians--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Iredell, James, 1751-1799.
• McRee, Griffith J. (Griffith John), 1820-1872.
• McRee, Griffith John, 1758-1801.
• North Carolina--Biography.
• North Carolina--History--1775-1865.
• Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868.

• See also David L. Swain Papers (#706); Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Alexander Lillington Papers (#3461); in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Griffith John McRee (1820-1872) was a North Carolina historian, author, attorney, and plantation owner. McRee was educated at W. H. Hardin's academy in Pittsboro, N.C., and graduated from Princeton in 1838. He later married Penelope Iredell, daughter of North Carolina governor and senator James Iredell.

The collection includes incoming correspondence, bills, receipts, legal papers, newspaper clippings, and other papers of McRee. Also included are letters and papers relating to McRee's biography, 1857-1858, of James Iredell, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and to the history of the American Revolution and the Civil War. Correspondents include David L. Swain and Eli Washington Caruthers, who wrote concerning historical events, sources, and historiography. Also included is a notebook containing the biography of an earlier Griffith John McRee (1758-1801), Revolutionary War officer and rice planter on the Cape Fear River of North Carolina.