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Size | About 200 items. |
Abstract | MICROFILM ONLY. Correspondence, indentures and legal agreements, circulars, pamphlets, and other papers of a North Carolina family, whose members included Leonidas Polk and President James Knox Polk. The bulk of the collection consists of letters to William Polk (1758-1834) concerning the University of North Carolina, elections of 1824 and 1828, the Bank of the United States, and the politics of Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford, John Q. Adams, and Henry Clay. Included are copies of documents relating to the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence and a biography, 1859, of William Polk. Correspondents include John Q. Adams, Alfred Balch, John Branch, Joseph Caldwell, Andrew Jackson Donelson, John H. Eaton, Daniel Graham, Andrew Jackson, William B. Lewis, Willie P. Mangum, and Thomas Ruffin. |
Creator | Polk (Family : Polk, Frances Ann Devereux, 1807-1875) |
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: Jodi Berkowitz, January 2022
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MICROFILM ONLY. Correspondence, indentures and legal agreements, circulars, pamphlets, and other papers of a North Carolina family, whose members included Leonidas Polk and President James Knox Polk. The bulk of the collection consists of letters to William Polk (1758-1834) concerning the University of North Carolina, elections of 1824 and 1828, the Bank of the United States, and the politics of Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford, John Q. Adams, and Henry Clay. Included are copies of documents relating to the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence and a biography, 1859, of William Polk. Correspondents include John Q. Adams, Alfred Balch, John Branch, Joseph Caldwell, Andrew Jackson Donelson, John H. Eaton, Daniel Graham, Andrew Jackson, William B. Lewis, Willie P. Mangum, and Thomas Ruffin.
Back to TopM-4098/1 |
Microfilm |