- Descriptive Summary
- Administrative Information
- Biographical Note
- Content and Scope
- Online Catalog Headings
- Detailed Description of the Materials
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Descriptive Summary
| Repository: | Western Carolina University Hunter Library Special Collections |
| Creator: | William Estes |
| Title: | William Estes Collection, 1851 - 1923 |
| Language of Material: | Material in English |
| Location: | For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Hunter Library Special Collections. |
| Abstract: | William Estes |
| William Estes was from Swain County, North Carolina. He served as a judicial official as well as a lieutenant in the North Carolina Militia during the Civil War. The Collection contains Estes' personal documents and correspondence from the period 1851-1923. | |
| Extent: | 11 linear feet |
Administrative Information
Collection is open for research.
Copyright for materials resides with the creators of the items in question, unless otherwise designated.
[Identification of item], William Estes Collection, Special Collections, Western Carolina University Hunter Library, Cullowhee, NC, USA.
Gift.
Processed by George Frizzell,
Encoded by Brian Sealy, November, 2005
Biographical Note
William Estes was from Swain County, North Carolina. He served as a judicial official as well as a lieutenant in the North Carolina militia during the Civil War. The Collection contains Estes' personal documents and correspondence from the period 1851-1923.
Content and Scope
Personal papers of William Estes and related family of Swain County, North Carolina. The papers include personal and/or business correspondence; papers related to Estes' capacity as a judicial official (court summons or court actions; warrants; notices of actions, petitions, and decisions; agreements); property and land related papers (notices, transactions, surveys, etc.); receipts and memorandum and account booklets; surveys and reports on stills and distilleries, road duty, or schools; promissory notes; Estes' commission as a 1st Lieutenant in the North Carolina militia (April 20, 1862); vouchers for clay hauled (1910); ephemeral printed items, books, business forms, and a photogaph.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following subject headings in online catalogs.
Estes, William.
Swain County (N.C.)--History.
Detailed Description of the Materials
| Correspondence, 1861-1921 | |
| Box MSS 95-3.1 | 1861-1921 1921 Undated, 1851-1923 From Arkansas, 1882-1889 From Arkansas, 1890-1897 Business related, receipts, 1847-1927 |
| Business related (forms) | |
| Distilleries and stills, surveys, reports, 1870-1877 | |
| Envelopes, undated, 1851-1923 | |
| Land related items, 1867-1923 | Land related items (notices, transactions, surveys), 1867-1882 Land and property forms (warranty deed, abstract of property, land acreage), circa 1880s-1920s |
| Legal documents, 1851-1893 | Legal documents (courts summons, court actions, warrants, notices of actions petitions and decisions), 1851-1893 Legal agreements, 1853-1892 Legal agreements, search warrants, promissory notes, 1865-1892 Legal related state forms, 1877 |
| Memorandum and account booklets, undated, 1851-1923 | |
| Militia, commission from the "The State of North Carolina to William Estice" appointing him a First Lieutenant in the state militia, April 20, 1862 | |
| Music | |
| Outhouse plans and state specifications | |
| Photograph and picture postcard | |
| Published writings, 1851-1923 | |
| Box MSS 95-3.2 | Political related articles, 1871-1884 Presidential candidates (article), undated, 1851-1923 Professor's trip (pamphlet), 1889 |
| Promissory notes, 1855-1928 | 1855-1905 1867-1904 1874-1928 |
| Box 95-3 | 1833-1902 |
| Receipts, 1800-1923 | |
| Box MSS 95-3.2 | Printed / forms, 1800-1923 Handwritten, 1850s-1870s Handwritten, 1880s 1890s and undated From Dr. Sansabaugh, 1868 |
| Box 95-3 | 1853-1906 |
| Road duty, 1874-1872 | |
| School related: list of names and Board of Education form, 1883 | |
| Tombstone sketch | |
| Vouchers for clay hauled, 1910 | |
| Will, 1873 | |
| Printed items and books | |