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    <title>Polk family papers, 1767-1859</title>
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  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>2</extent>
    <extent>1</extent>
    <extent>1</extent>
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  <abstract>Two volumes (circa 200 items) containing correspondence, indentures and legal agreements, circulars, pamphlets, and other papers.  Consists chiefly of letters to William Polk concerning the University of North Carolina, elections of 1824 and 1828, Bank of the United States, and the politics of John Quincy Adams, William Harris Crawford, and Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson.  Includes copies of documents relating to the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence and a biography (1859) of William Polk.  Polk family members represented include Leonidas Polk and James K. Polk.  Correspondents include John Quincy Adams, Alfred Balch, John Branch, Joseph Caldwell, Andrew Jackson Donelson, John Henry Eaton, Daniel Graham, Andrew Jackson, William Berkeley Lewis, Willie Person Mangum, and Thomas Ruffin.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 16,734.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1976.</note>
  <note>Family of North Carolina.  Family members represented include James K. Polk, Leonidas Polk, and William Polk.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Adams, John Quincy</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1767-1848</namePart>
    </name>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Adams, John Quincy</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1767-1848</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Balch, Alfred</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Branch, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1782-1863</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Caldwell, Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1773-1835</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Clay, Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1777-1852</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Crawford, William Harris</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1772-1834</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Donelson, Andrew Jackson</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1799-1871</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Eaton, John Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1790-1856</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Graham, Daniel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1789-1869</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jackson, Andrew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1767-1845</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jackson, Andrew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1767-1845</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lewis, William Berkeley</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1784-1866</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Mangum, Willie Person</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1792-1861</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Polk, James K. (James Knox)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1795-1849</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Polk, Leonidas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1806-1864</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Polk, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1758-1834</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Polk, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1758-1834</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ruffin, Thomas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1787-1870</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Polk family</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Bank of the United States (1816-1836)</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence</title>
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  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Elections</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <temporal>1824</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Elections</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <temporal>1828</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Presidents</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Election</topic>
    <temporal>1824</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Presidents</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Election</topic>
    <temporal>1828</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Universities and colleges</topic>
    <geographic>North Carolina</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>North Carolina</geographic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
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