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Collection Number: 02194-z

Collection Title: Revolutionary War Papers, 1774-1782.

This collection has access restrictions. For details, please see the restrictions.

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available through the World Wide Web. See the Duplication Policy section for more information.


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.

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Size About 75 items
Abstract The collection contains miscellaneous Revolutionary War papers, chiefly relating to North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, 1781-1782. The collection includes letters, reports, invoices, and other papers of the North Carolina General Assembly and of Governor Richard Caswell concerning military activities and supplies, records of local proceedings, and other items.
Creator Caswell, Richard, 1729-1789.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
This collection contains additional materials that are not available for immediate or same day access. Please contact Research and Instructional Service staff at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu to discuss options for consulting these materials.
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 Revolutionary War Papers, #2194-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Alternate Form of Material
Typed transcriptions of many items available; microfilm copy of entire collection available.
Additional Descriptive Resources
A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.
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: Kathryn Michaelis, February 2011; Nancy Kaiser, May 2021

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.

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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.

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

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The collection contains miscellaneous Revolutionary War papers, chiefly relating to North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, 1781-1782. The collection includes letters, reports, invoices, and other papers of the North Carolina General Assembly and of Governor Richard Caswell concerning military activities and supplies, records of local proceedings, and other items.

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Contents list

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About 75 items.
Folder 1

1774-1779

Folder 2

1780

Folder 3

1781

Folder 4

1782-1785 and undated

Oversize Paper OP-2194/1

Map of battlefield at Stono Ferry, S.C., 1779

The map is inscribed, "Donated by W. W. Huske, Fayetteville, N.C."

Oversize Paper OP-2194/2

"Report of the legislative committee appointed to inquire into the expediency of keeping a body of militia on the frontier...," 1777

Reel M-2194/1

Microfilm

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