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[Identification of item], in the William Henry Hoyt Papers, #3410, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Bequest 1958

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• Hoyt, William Henry.
• Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.
• Ney, Michel, 1769-1815.
• Ney, Peter Stuart, d. 1846.
• North Carolina--Biography.
• North Carolina--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

• Mecklenburg Declaration Papers (#501); Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Lawyer, of New York, N.Y., and amateur historian.

Hoyt's papers include correspondence and notes, pictures, and copies of documents from repositories in France, Italy, Great Britain, and the United States, all related to his research into the legend of Peter Stewart Ney, a 19th-century North Carolina schoolmaster alleged to be Michel Ney (1765-1815), marshal of France; and concerning the declaration of independence signed in Mecklenburg County, N.C., 20 May 1775. In 1907, Hoyt published a book on the Mecklenburg declaration.