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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Mecklenburg Declaration Papers, #501, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Alexander, Joseph McKnitt, fl. 1819-1831.
• Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.
• North Carolina--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Causes.

• William Henry Hoyt Papers (#3410), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The collection contains papers, chiefly 1775-1853, accumulated by Joseph McKnitt Alexander and others relating to the Mecklenburg Declaration and Resolves of May 1775, and the controversy over them, including later testimony of witnesses and copies of documents, papers of North Carolina officials concerning the publication of a pamphlet on the subject in 1831, and later letters related to aspects of the controversy.