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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Starke, Marchant, and Martin Family Papers, #1549, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Marianne Martin of Leaksville, N.C., November 1948.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, May 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.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Autobiographies--North Carolina.
• Autobiographies--Virginia.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Elizabeth City (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Judges--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Lawyers--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Marchant family.
• Martin family.
• Martin, J. G. (James Green), 1819-1878.
• Martin, William Bruce, 1846-1921.
• Middle Atlantic States--Description and travel.
• New England--Description and travel.
• Newspaper editors--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Norfolk (Va.)--History--19th century.
• Starke family.
• Starke, Elizabeth Marchant, -1863.
• Starke, Lucien Douglas, 1826-1902.
• Travelers--United States--Diaries.
• United States. Army--Officers--Correspondence.

• William Francis Martin Papers (#493).
• William Francis Martin Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C.

Lucien Douglas Starke (1826-1902) was a newspaper editor at Elizabeth City, N.C., Confederate officer, lawyer at Norfolk, Va., and member of the Virginia leglislature, 1875-1877. His wife was Elizabeth F. Marchant Starke. Their daughter, Elizabeth Starke, married William Bruce Martin (1846-1921), son of J. G. Martin and his first wife, Mary Anne M. Read Martin (1811-1857). J. G. (James Green) Martin (1819-1878) of North Carolina was a United States and Confederate army officer. His other children were Annie H., Marianne R., and James G. Martin.

The collection includes family correspondence and other papers, chiefly 1850s through 1890s, of the Starke, Marchant, and Martin families. Papers of Lucien Douglas Starke include his autobiography (written circa 1900) and letters to Elizabeth Marchant of Virginia, later his wife, written from Elizabeth City, N.C., prior to their marriage and while serving in the Confederate Army at various North Carolina and Virginia posts. Also included are family and some military correspondence of J. G. Martin while he was a United States Army officer and Confederate brigadier general at Plymouth and Weldon, N.C., and Petersburg and Burksville, Va., some of which concern Martin's surrender while commanding the Western District of North Carolina, 1865. There is also some correspondence, 1863, between Martin and his West Point classmate, Brigadier General William I. Palmer, with the United States Army in New Bern, N.C. Later papers are chiefly legal and personal items of William Bruce Martin, many related to his election as judge of the Law and Chancery Court of Norfolk, Va. Scattered other items include a journal of a trip from Delaware through New York, Pennsylvania, and New England, circa 1826; an account book of William Bruce Martin, 1869-1901; and genealogical materials.