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[Identification of item], in the W. S. Hamilton Papers, #1471, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Baptist State Convention of North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Claims against decedents' estates--Louisiana--History--19th century.
• College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.)--Students--Social life and customs.
• Diaries.
• Edenton (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Elizabeth City (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Fathers and sons--Louisiana.
• Hamilton, John, 1784-1822.
• Hamilton, W. S. (William Southerland), b. 1789.
• Hampton, Wade, 1752-1835.
• Law--Study and teaching--Scotland--History--19th century.
• Lawyers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Louisiana--History--War of 1812.
• Louisiana--Politics and government.
• Migration, Internal--Southern States--History--19th century.
• North Carolina--Politics and government--1775-1865.
• Plantation owners--Louisiana--Correspondence.
• Plantations--Louisiana.
• Scottish Americans--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Smith, Samuel Stanhope, 1750-1819.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• United States. Army--Military life.
• United States. Army--Records and correspondence.
• Washington (N.C.)--History.

Papers of John Hamilton (1784-1822) and his son, W. S. Hamilton, pertaining to J. Hamilton's study of law in Scotland, his move to the United States, his life in Edenton and Elizabeth City, N.C., as a lawyer, state legislator, and active Baptist, and his move to Louisiana; and to W. S. Hamilton's study at Princeton College, his friendship and correspondence with Samuel Stanhope Smith, president of Princeton, his service as a United States Army officer, 1808-1817, chiefly in Louisiana under General Wade Hampton (1754-1835), 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 J. 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.