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State Archives of North Carolina"},{"label":"Language","value":["English"]},{"label":"Creator","value":["Iredell, James, 1751-1799."]},{"label":"Date","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1770 - D:00 M:00 Y:1773"},{"label":"Subject","value":["North Carolina--Politics and government--To 1775","Courtship","Lawyers","Women--Political activity","North Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775"]},{"label":"Index Terms","value":"Iredell, James, 1751-1799"},{"label":"Place","value":["Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, United States"]},{"label":"Time Period","value":["(1763-1789) American Revolution"]},{"label":"Description","value":"Iredell’s diary begins in 1770, the year he read law under Samuel Johnston, the nephew of a former royal governor, and was successfully licensed at Edenton to practice law in the inferior courts of North Carolina. The diary ends in early 1773, shortly before Iredell married Hannah Johnston, one of Samuel Johnston’s sisters. The diary itself reveals a high-minded and ambitious young man, his romantic feelings, and his social world—one of the few such accounts existing for North Carolina during this period. It also offers a vivid picture of young Iredell’s network of friends and acquaintances in pre-Revolutionary Edenton, along with his legal study and his thoughts on political ideas and events at home and abroad. Most powerfully, it offers an intimate glimpse of his courtship with Hannah, along with his strong feelings about women and his desire for mutual respect as a basis for marriage. One passage, dated November 16, 1772, is especially revealing:  “Heard in the Course of the Evening many discharges of Guns on acct. of Horniblow’s being married to Nancy Rainbough---Was told she was averse to the Match, & forced to it by her Father & Mother. ---Is it true? can such cruel Parents exist?---& too easy, too compliant Daughter with the desire of your Parents in a point they have no right to command. … The married State to Parties whose Minds are in unison with each other, & whose hearts are connected by the fondest Ties of Affections is the most blissful Situation The Mind of Many can conceive. … Oh! Hannah, I trust We shall be happy---Our Hearts are disposed to good & Benevolent Actions---Our Wishes formed on no Visionary Basis---& our Affections cemented by the strongest, dearest Ties of the most tender Attachment.---God grant, I may have it in some degree in my powers, by a pleasing, unremitting Attention to make her happy, to succeed in my Endeavors….” In the year following his marriage, Iredell wrote “To the Inhabitants of Great Britain” opposing the concept of Parliamentary supremacy over America. This essay helped establish Iredell as the most influential political essayist in pre-Revolutionary North Carolina. Also during 1774, McCulloh negotiated the transfer of the collectorship of the Port of Roanoke to Iredell—a post he held until June 1776 when he irrevocably cast his lot with the Patriots. Iredell was in Edenton at the time of the Edenton Tea Party on October 25, 1774, one of the earliest known instances of political activity by American women. Possibly because of Iredell’s official position, Hannah Johnston Iredell refrained from signing resolutions supporting the First North Carolina Provincial Congress, which voted to boycott certain British products. However, the names of Hannah’s sisters and her sisters-in-law were on the list. The London newspapers carried accounts of the event, prompting Iredell’s brother Arthur to write from England the following much quoted letter: “I see by the newspapers the Edenton ladies have signalized themselves by their protest against tea-drinking. The name of Johnston [the maiden name of Mrs. Iredell] I see among others| are any of my sister’s relations patriotic heroines? Is there a female Congress at Edenton too? I hope not for we Englishmen are afraid of the male Congress, but if the ladies, who have ever since the Amazonian Era, been esteemed the most formidable enemies, if they, I say should attack us, the most fatal consequence is to be dreaded.”"},{"label":"Digital Characteristics","value":"5 pages"},{"label":"Format","value":["Diaries"]},{"label":"Rights","value":"All rights held by the State Archives of NC. Permission to publish must be obtained from the registrar in writing."},{"label":"Source Collections","value":["Vault Collection. 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