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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 Joshua Sharpe Papers, #3255-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased 1956.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is 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.

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• Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763.
• Colonial agents--England--History--18th century.
• Dobbs, Arthur, 1689-1765.
• George 1683-1760.
• Governors--North Carolina--History--18th century.
• Great Britain--Colonies--America--Administration.
• Land grants--North Carolina--History--18th century.
• Legislative bodies--North Carolina--History--18th century.
• McCulloh, Henry E. (Henry Eustace), d. ca. 1810.
• North Carolina--Politics and government--To 1775.
• North Carolina. General Assembly--History--18th century.
• Sharpe, Joshua, fl. 1747-1750.

• Fanning and McCulloh papers (#252-z).

Joshua Sharpe (fl. 1747-1750) of London was solicitor for the Hudson's Bay Company and his practice was largely in American legal business.

The collection includes petitions, letters, memoranda, and affidavits (mostly draft copies) related to the colonial government of North Carolina. Fourteen items, 1747-1750, are papers of the London solicitor Joshua Sharpe concerning a dispute over the apportionment of the North Carolina General Assembly. Six items, 1756-1760, concern Henry E. McCulloh's difficulties with the Crown and John Carteret, Earl Granville, over the terms under which he had been granted lands. Two items, 1760-1761, concern a dispute between Governor Arthur Dobbs and the General Assembly over choosing a colonial agent in London.

Oversize papers (OPF-3255/1).