Series 5 - Rev. William J. Stavely letters

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The original Bones and Brown letters are held in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), Belfast with reference numbers D.1835/27/1/1-6; the original Rev. Alexander McLeod letters are held in PRONI with reference numbers D.1792/C/1-3; the originals of all but one of the Adams and Cathcart letters are held in PRONI with reference numbers D.1835/27/1/1-6, and the copy of the Anne Adams letter of 29 September 1829 is in the Hughes Family Papers (Acc. #2779) in the Southern Historical Collection at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and the James Lyons letter was published in North Irish Roots: Journal of the North of Ireland Family History Society, vol. 2, no. 7 (1991), p. 256.

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Photocopies of 17 letters dated 1815-1860, nearly all of which were written from the United States to the Rev. William J. Stavely, a Reformed Presbyterian Covenanter minster, or to members of his family, near Ballymoney in north County Antrim. Six of the letters were written by members of the Bones, Brown, and Hamilton families in Augusta, Georgia, 1815-1860. Three letters were written by the Rev. Alexander McLeod of New York City, 1816-1825. Seven letters were written by members of the Adams and Cathcart families, all but one of them women, in South Carolina (or, in one instance, in Ballymoney), 1817-1829. Finally, one letter was written by James Lyons of Winnsborough, South Carolina to his cousin in Ballymoney in 1825.

Kerby A. Miller's transcripts of the letters, along with his research on the letters' subjects and on emigration to South Carolina and Georgia, are found in P155/25/4. Letters written by Rev. Stavely's son, also named William Stavely, plus three more letters written by Rev. Stavely to his son James, are found in P155/59/6. A research essay on the Stavelys is located in P155/67/34.