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Political campaign literature from the Populist and Democratic Parties.

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The College Museum Collection dates from 1712 to 1918 and contains letters, broadsides, pamphlets, currency, stamps, land records, wills, tax receipts, and other miscellaneous legal documents, as well as a diary.

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North Carolina colonial currency, some printed by James Davis; confederate stamps; confederate currency; foreign currency.

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The College Museum Collection dates from 1712 to 1918 and contains letters, broadsides, pamphlets, currency, stamps, land records, wills, tax receipts, and other miscellaneous legal documents, as well as a diary.

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Correspondence between Miss Fort and a Belgian soldier in a German prison.

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Includes signatures of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson.

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Deeds, grants, plats and surveys from Beaufort, Duplin, Greene, Randolph, Guilford and Rutherford counties, and Perquimans Province.

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Wills, tax receipts, notes, marriage bond and license.

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The College Museum Collection dates from 1712 to 1918 and contains letters, broadsides, pamphlets, currency, stamps, land records, wills, tax receipts, and other miscellaneous legal documents, as well as a diary.

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Five personal letters, one written in New Bern and one mailed to Warren County, 1855-1864, chiefly Civil War letters. Photocopy of letter (incomplete) describing the battle of the Monitor and Merrimac, March 12, 1862.

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The College Museum Collection dates from 1712 to 1918 and contains letters, broadsides, pamphlets, currency, stamps, land records, wills, tax receipts, and other miscellaneous legal documents, as well as a diary.

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Paper made in North Carolina during the Civil War.

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The College Museum Collection dates from 1712 to 1918 and contains letters, broadsides, pamphlets, currency, stamps, land records, wills, tax receipts, and other miscellaneous legal documents, as well as a diary.

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Five personal letters dealing with family affairs. Rector apparently lived in Georgia. Two letters were written from North Carolina, including one describing the female school in Salem, North Carolina.

Scope and Contents Ten handwritten pages, two notes. This is not a day-by-day diary, entries were apparently made on a yearly basis; however, the writer likely kept notes throughout the year to add to the diary. Subjects include the weather, success of crops and some personal items. Speight records his filing for the NC Senate race at Kinston, his election in 1852, and his defeats in 1866 and 1875. During the war he mentions skirmishes near his home and news of other battles. He records the death of various...