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This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 163 items) |
Abstract | Mrs. Perrin Quarles was the mother of Lieutenant James Perrin Quarles Jr. (1919-1944) of Charlotte, N.C., who was killed in World War II. The collection was created by Mrs. Perrin Quarles as a memorial and includes papers, collected by Mrs. Perrin Quarles, on varied subjects and from varied locations, chiefly legal and personal correspondence, 1869-1913, of Houston S. Gilleylen (1852-1913), lawyer of Aberdeen, Monroe County, Miss., and his father-in-law, William Frank Dowd (1832-1910), lawyer and Confederate colonel. Also included are papers relating to lands ceded by the Chickasaw Indians; two letters from Jefferson Davis, 1849 and 1857; and a variety of scattered papers relating to antebellum North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi. |
Creator | Quarles, Perrin, Mrs. |
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: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 2009
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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Lieutenant James Perrin Quarles Jr. (1919-1944) of Charlotte, N.C., was killed in World War II. The collection was created by his mother, Mrs. Perrin Quarles, as a memorial.
Back to TopThe collection includes papers, collected by Mrs. Perrin Quarles, on varied subjects and from varied locations, chiefly legal and personal correspondence, 1869-1913, of Houston S. Gilleylen (1852-1913), lawyer of Aberdeen, Monroe County, Miss., and his father-in-law, William Frank Dowd (1832-1910), lawyer and Confederate colonel. Also included are papers relating to lands ceded by the Chickasaw Indians; two letters from Jefferson Davis, 1849 and 1857; and a variety of scattered papers relating to antebellum North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi.
Back to TopFolder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
McClelland material, 1773-1835Chiefly land grants and plats of John McClelland including items from Iredell, Rowan, and Burke counties, N.C. |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-985/1 |
McClelland land grants |
Folder 2 |
South Carolina and Alabama material, 1825-1884Scattered letters relating to banking, slavery, and a few other matters. |
Folder 3 |
Mississippi general material, 1826-1866Varied papers, chiefly antebellum, relating primarily to legal matters surrounding lands ceded to the United States by the Chickasaw Indians. These land papers are chiefly related to the Surget family of Natchez, Miss. Also papers of General and Chancellor Stephen Cocke of Mississippi, including letters from Jefferson Davis and Joseph Emory Davis. |
Folder 4-11
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Gilleyen-Dowd material,1869-1913 and undatedLetters received and legal papers of Houston S. Gilleyen, lawyer of Aberdeen, Monroe County, Miss., with a few of his father-in-law, Colonel William Frank Dowd. Also material about Connor Dowd of North Carolina, a loyalist in the American Revolution; his son, William M. Dowd, soldier in the War of 1812 and Baptist missionary; their descendants, and the related Gillespie and Brown families. |
Folder 12 |
North Carolina genealogy materialIncludes Jackson, Connerly, and Arendall genealogy. |
Folder 13 |
Miscellaneous |