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Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 123 items) |
Abstract | Bartlett Yancey was a lawyer and politician of Caswell County, N.C., U.S representative, 1813-1817, and member and speaker of the North Carolina Senate, 1817-1828. The collection includes frequent letters to Bartlett Yancey from Nathaniel Macon, Romulus Mitchell Saunders, and Lewis Williams, and scattered letters from John C. Calhoun, William H. Crawford, Willie P. Mangum, Archibald D. Murphey, Thomas Ruffin, and other prominent men, particularly concerning the preliminaries of the elections of 1824 and 1828, reflecting the viewpoint of the "Old Republican" group which supported William H. Crawford for the presidency in 1824 and Andrew Jackson in 1828. |
Creator | Yancey, Bartlett, 1785-1828. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, October 2010
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Bartlett Yancey (1785-1828) was a lawyer and politician of Caswell County, N.C.; a U.S representative, 1813-1817; and a member and speaker of the North Carolina Senate, 1817-1828.
Back to TopThe collection includes frequent letters to Bartlett Yancey from Nathaniel Macon, Romulus Mitchell Saunders, and Lewis Williams, and scattered letters from John C. Calhoun, William H. Crawford, Willie P. Mangum, Archibald D. Murphey, Thomas Ruffin, and other prominent men, particularly concerning the preliminaries of the elections of 1824 and 1828, reflecting the viewpoint of the "Old Republican" group which supported William H. Crawford for the presidency in 1824 and Andrew Jackson in 1828.
Many of the letters have been published in several volumes of the James Sprunt Historical Publications and in the North Carolina Historical Review.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
Folder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
1800; 1813-1818 |
Folder 2 |
1819-1822 |
Folder 3 |
1823 |
Folder 4 |
January-July 1824 |
Folder 5 |
August-December 1824 |
Folder 6 |
1825 |
Folder 7 |
1826 |
Folder 8 |
1827-1828 |
Reel M-805/1 |
Microfilm |