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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Thaddeus Banks Papers, #43, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. Houston Hiatt of High Point, N.C., prior to 1940.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 2010

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• Banks family.
• Banks, Delia Jones Reynolds, fl. 1839-1864.
• Banks, Thaddeus, 1815-1880.
• Cecil County (Md.)--History.
• Cherokee Indians--Government relations.
• Creswell Reynolds & Company.
• Fox Indians--Government relations.
• Hollidaysburg (Pa.)--History.
• Indians of North America--Government relations--1789-1869.
• Lawyers--Pennsylvania--History--19th century.
• Mammoth Cave (Ky.)--Description and travel.
• Quakers--Maryland--History--19th century.
• Reynolds family.
• Reynolds, John C.
• Reynolds, Reuben.
• Sauk Indians--Government relations.
• Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842.
• United States. Office of Indian Affairs.

Thaddeus Banks (1815-1879) was a lawyer of Hollidaysburg, Pa.

The collection includes chiefly correspondence and business papers of Thaddeus Banks, consisting mostly of letters, 1839-1841, from Banks to his fiancee, Delia Jane Reynolds, and scattered letters to her, 1842-1864, after their marriage. Also included are letters of the Banks family of Pennsylvania; the Reynolds family, Quakers, of Cecil County, Md.; and John C. Reynolds, who was with the United States Office of Indian Affairs. Letters of John C. Reynolds concern fighting in the Second Seminole War and dealings with the Cherokee, Sac, and Fox Indians, and include a letter describing a trip, 1840, through Mammoth Cave. There are also some genealogical items concerning the Banks, Reynolds, Watkins, and Patterson families, and receipt book, 1807-1817, showing amounts paid for various expenses by Creswell Reynolds & Company, Reuben Reynolds, and others.