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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Henry William Harrington Papers, #314, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

1935-1958

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• Auld, John.
• Diaries.
• Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806.
• Goldsborough, Charles W. (Charles Washington), 1779-1843.
• Grove, William Barry, 1764-1818.
• Hamilton, Paul, 1762-1816.
• Harrington family.
• Harrington, Henry William, 1748-1809.
• Harrington, Henry William, b. 1793.
• Henry, John.
• Hopper, A. M.
• North Carolina--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
• Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 1746-1825.
• Plantation life--North Carolina.
• Plantation owners--North Carolina.
• Richmond County (N.C.)--History.
• Richmond County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• South Carolina--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
• Southern States--Description and travel.
• United States--History--War of 1812.
• Williams, Benjamin W.

Henry William Harrington (1748-1809) was a North Carolina state senator, South Carolina militia officer during the Revolutionary War, and land owner.

The collection includes political and military correspondence, 1775-1797, and family letters, 1811-1846, of Revolutionary General Henry William Harrington. Early papers concern military and political aspects of the Revolution in the Carolinas and its aftermath. Correspondents include John Auld, Horatio Gates, Charles W. Goldsborough, William Barry Grove, Paul Hamilton, John Henry, A. M. Hopper, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and Benjamin W. Williams. Later items include papers of Henry W. Harrington Junior (born 1793), Richmond County, N.C., planter who served in the United States Navy during the War of 1812 and was a state legislator. Present is a transcript of excerpts from his diary, 1826-1864, with scattered entries focusing on daily business and financial transactions, plantation and social activities, travels, including a trip through the South, 1833-1834, and hunting expeditions.