Inventory of the William Francis Martin Papers, 1787-1884
Collection Number 493
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Martin, William Francis, 1821-1880.
- Title
- William Francis Martin Papers, 1787-1884.
- Call Number
- 493
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 1,900 items (3.0 linear feet.).
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Administrative Information
- Additional Descriptive Resources
- A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the William Francis Martin Papers, #493, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Account books.
- Customs administration--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Elizabeth City (N.C.)--History--19th century.
- Elliott, Gilbert, b. 1843.
- Lawyers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Manteo (N.C.)--History--19th century.
- Martin, J. G. (James Green), 1819-1878.
- Martin, William Francis, 1821-1880.
- Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- North Carolina--Commerce--History--19th century.
- Pasquotank County (N.C.)--Economic conditions--19th century.
- Plymouth (N.C.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations.
- United States. Life-Saving Service--History--19th century.
Related Material
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Starke, Marchant, and Martin family papers (#1549), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.
Biographical Note
William Francis Martin (1821-1880) was a lawyer and Confederate Army officer from Elizabeth City, N.C. He was the brother of James G. Martin, adjutant general of North Carolina and Confederate brigadier general
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The collection includes correspondence and business papers, including 21 volumes, chiefly of Martin and his brother, James G. Martin, adjutant general of North Carolina and Confederate brigadier general. Much of the collection consists of legal papers, law account books, and other papers of W. F. Martin's law practice in northeastern North Carolina before and after the Civil War. Also included are Civil War papers of his agent, Gilbert Elliott (born 1843), who was involved in the construction of Confederate gunboats on the North Carolina coast; students' notebooks; volumes of accounts of or with the United States customs house for the Camden District, 1837-1843; journal of the schooner Bancroft mapping North Carolina coastal waters, 1852-1853; general merchandise accounts, 1855-1856 and 1865-1870, at Plymouth, N.C., and 1860-1861 at Elizabeth City; record of local and state taxes, [Pasquotank County?, N.C.], 1860; merchandise accounts with ships, 1860-1862 and 1865-1867; order book and journal of a United States revenue sloop off the North Carolina coast, 1872-1875 and 1877-1879; letter book of the United States Life Saving Service at Elizabeth City and Manteo, 1878-1881; and other items.