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Collection: DAVID SCHENCK PAPERS
Guilford County
1772, 1785, 1316, 1832, I887-I894
Physical Description: 1 volume and 33 items; notebook, letters, and
miscellaneous papers.
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Description: David Schenck was born March 24, 1335, in Lincoln County.
He attended various private schools and institutions, and in 1857 began
the practice of lav.' in Dallas, Gaston County. In i860 he became solicitor
of Lincoln County, and the. following year he was elected a delegate to the
Secession Convention. He served as Confederate States Receiver during the
war, and in 1374 he was elected judge of the superior court of the Ninth
Judicial District of North Carolina. He 'died in Greensboro, August 26,
1902.
Schenck was active in numerous projects and organizations for the
betterment of Guilford County; including the Guilford Battle Ground
Company, which he helped found in Kay, 1887. Most of the items in this
collection relate to Schenck' s activities as president of this organi¬
zation, and his efforts to locate additional material on the battle of
Guilford Court House and the men who fought there. Much of the corre¬
spondence relates to General Jethro Sumner, an officer of the North Caro¬
lina Line v/ho, however, appears to have taken no part in the engagement
at Guilford Court House. Items of particular significance or interest
include the following: Jethro Sumner's will (Mar., 1785); a typescript
of an agreement whereby Michael Beam. was employed to manufacture a
spinning machine for Michael Schenck and Absolom V/arlick (Apr. 27, l8lo);
James Turner's recollections, as recorded by his grandson, of the battle
of Guilford Court House (May 19, 1893); a petition from the edA-izens-ef
an-unspe ci-fied~c ommuni.ty. requesting that, due to his lack of "legal learning
and experience," George W. Logan resign as judge of the Ninth Judicial
District (n.d.); and an essay by an unidentified author who contends that
Alexander Lillington, rather than Richard Caswell, commanded the American
■forces at the battle of Moore's Creek (n.d.) Included among the corre¬
spondents are Joseph B. Cheshire, Walter Clark, Lyman C. Draper, and
David Schenck.
