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Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1,000 items) |
Abstract | W.S. Hamilton (b. 1789) studied at Princeton College, served as a United States Army officer, 1808-1817, and was a planter and legislator in Louisiana. His father, John Hamilton, studied law in Scotland before moving to the United States to be a lawyer, state legislator, and active Baptist in Edenton and Elizabeth City, N.C. John Hamilton later moved to Louisiana. W.S. Hamilton and his stepmother became involved in a controversy over property due to him from his mother's estate after John Hamilton's death. Collection materials pertain to John Hamilton's education, emigration, life in North Carolina, and move to Louisiana. Later papers detail W.S. Hamilton's education, his friendship and correspondence with Samuel Stanhope Smith, president of Princeton, his service as a United States Army officer, and his controversy with his father and stepmother over property due him from his mother's estate. Volumes, 1785-1802, are irregular diaries and brief memoranda books of John Hamilton. Also available are military papers and orderly books of W.S. Hamilton and his later papers as a planter and legislator in Louisiana; correspondence with his sons, especially Douglas M. and William B. Hamilton, students in Louisiana and at the University of Virginia and soldiers in the Confederate Army in Virginia; and a Louisiana cotton plantation journal, 1861-1862. Pages from a record of daily work performed by slaves are available on microfilm. |
Creator | Hamilton, W. S. (William Southerland), b. 1789. |
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 Jordan, April 2011
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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W.S. Hamilton (b. 1789) studied at Princeton College, served as a United States Army officer, 1808-1817, and was a planter and legislator in Louisiana. His father, John Hamilton, studied law in Scotland before moving to the United States to be a lawyer, state legislator, and active Baptist in Edenton and Elizabeth City, N.C. John Hamilton later moved to Louisiana. W.S. Hamilton and his stepmother became involved in a controversy over property due to him from his mother's estate after John Hamilton's death.
Back to TopThe collection is the papers of W.S. Hamilton and John Hamilton (1784-1822). Materials pertain to John Hamilton's education, emigration, life in North Carolina, and move to Louisiana. Later papers detail W.S. Hamilton's education, his friendship and correspondence with Samuel Stanhope Smith, president of Princeton, his service as a United States Army officer, and his controversy with his father and stepmother over property due him from his mother's estate. Volumes, 1785-1802, are irregular diaries and brief memoranda books of John Hamilton.
Also available are military papers and orderly books of W.S. Hamilton and his later papers as a planter and legislator in Louisiana; correspondence with his sons, especially Douglas M. and William B. Hamilton, students in Louisiana and at the University of Virginia and soldiers in the Confederate Army in Virginia; and a Louisiana cotton plantation journal, 1861-1862. Pages from a record of daily work performed by slaves are available on microfilm.
Back to TopFolder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
1770-1794 |
Folder 2 |
1795-1807 |
Folder 3 |
1808 |
Folder 4 |
1809-1810 |
Folder 5 |
1811-1817 |
Folder 6 |
1825-1830 |
Folder 7 |
Volume 1: 1785 |
Folder 8 |
Volume 2: 1787-1788 |
Folder 9 |
Volume 3: 1791-1792 |
Folder 10 |
Volume 4: 1793-1795 |
Folder 11 |
Volume 5: 1796-1797 |
Folder 12 |
Volume 6: 1798 |
Folder 13 |
Volume 7: 1799-1800 |
Folder 14 |
Volume 8: 1801-1802 |
Folder 15 |
1805 |
Folder 16 |
May 1827 |
Reel M-1471/1 |
September 1783-December 1827 |
Reel M-1471/2 |
January 1828-December 1832 |
Reel M-1471/3 |
January 1833-February 1853 |
Reel M-1471/4 |
March 1853-January 1860 |
Reel M-1471/5 |
February 1860-June 1861 |
Reel M-1471/6 |
July 1861-1888; 1924 |
Reel M-1471/7 |
1825-1870; 1881 |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-1471/1 |
General Assembly campaign poster for John Hamilton, Tyrrell County, N.C., August 1787 |