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BUXTON, RALPH, PAPERS
Fayetteville, North Carolina
1825-1871*
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Physical Description: Newspaper clippings, stock certificate, invitation,
letters, two bound volumes. 10 items and ‘bound volumes.
Acquisition: Given by Mrs. S. VI. Sparger, Route # 2, Cool Mill Road,
Durham, North Carolina.
May 1*, 191*2.
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Description: Ralph P. Buxton was a member of the State Convention of
1865 and the Convention of 1875 J he was a superior court judge for
the fifth judicial district, 1865-1881. i
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These papers are records of Jarvis Buxton (1827-181*1*)
and Ralph P. Buxton ( 181*U-187U) . Some, of the miscellaneous items
are* ordination of Jarvis Barry Buxton as' a deacon of Christ Church,
Elizabeth City (1827) signed by Bishop John S. Ravenscroft; notice to
Judge Buxton to set a date for holding court* clippings of a speech
by Buxton in the convention on the abolition of imprisonment for debt
and on his election as judge; and letters from Governors Holden and
Br ogden. f
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One of the two bound volumes (1835-181*2) is a yearly-
account of expenditures, beginning with an, inventory and ending
with a recapitulation. Expenses included attendance at annual
church conventions; contributions to an Episcopal school, colonization
society, missionary society, and "to the Bishop"; trips to Wadesboro,
Clinton, and Raleigh, North Carolina, Philadelphia, New York, and
Tennessee; shingling the rectoiy, repairs to the chimney; Jarvis
Buxton's college expenses at the University (181*0-181*1*) and Ralph's ,
expenses at a theological seminary. The other bound volume (1855-1856)
contains newspaper clippings, indexed in the back of the book, mainly
about the Know-Nothing (American) Party with a speech of George
Badger's and a letter of Kenneth Rayner's.
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