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No restrictions. Open for research.

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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the James Iredell Papers, #365, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Selected volumes are available on microfilm.

Additional Descriptive Resources

Original finding aid filed in folder 1.

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.

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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Court records--Pennsylvania.
• Court records--New Jersey.
• Court records--Rhode Island.
• Court records--South Carolina.
• Court records--Virginia.
• Edenton (N.C.)--History--18th century.
• Harbors--North Carolina.
• Harbors--Port charges.
• Iredell, James, 1751-1799.
• Judges--Correspondence.
• Lawyers--Correspondence.
• Port of Roanoke (N.C.)
• Shipping--North Carolina--History--18th century.
• United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Causes.

James Iredell (1751-1799) was a lawyer, colonial customs collector, state official, and United States Supreme Court justice, of Edenton, N.C.

The collection includes Port of Roanoke (N.C.) customs records, 1771-1776; legal fee books, 1774-1799, and case book, 1786-1790; case books, 1793-1799, of Federal circuit courts in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia; and personal accounts, law notes, and legal writings, and an essay on the causes of the American Revolution (on microfilm).

• Oversize volumes (SV-365/1-5, 17)