Official Records

The records of the U.S. District Courts for the Districts of North Carolina are included among Record Group 21 at the:

        National Archives at Atlanta
        5780 Jonesboro Road
        Morrow, Georgia 30260

        Email: atlanta.archives@nara.gov

A guide to the holdings of the regional archives is available at: https://www.archives.gov/atlanta/holdings

A published description of the records is also available in the Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States, 1995 (http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/index.html ) .

Bibliography

Fish, Peter Graham. Federal Justice in the Mid-Atlantic South: United States Courts from Maryland to the Carolinas, 1789-1835. Washington, D.C.: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, 2002.

_______. Federal Justice in the Mid-Atlantic South: United States Courts from Maryland to the Carolinas, 1836-1861. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2015.

Hewlett, Crockette W. The United States Judges of North Carolina. New Bern: Historical Society of Eastern North Carolina, 1978.

Wellons, Howard Mackey. A Scared Trust: A Biographical History of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. Charlotte, N.C.: Office of the Clerk of Court, U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, 2019.