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Collection Number: 01692

Collection Title: De Graffenried Family Papers, 1735-1958.

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available through the World Wide Web. See the Duplication Policy section for more information.


This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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Size 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 200 items)
Abstract Baron Christoph von Graffenried (1661-1743) of Switzerland, Landgrave of Carolina, founded New Bern, N.C., in 1710. His family and descendents resided in Switzerland and America. The collection includes pictures, biographical and genealogical clippings and writings, and family data relating to Baron Christoph von Graffenried and his family and descendants. One original item is a letter, 1735, from the Baron to his son about genealogy.
Creator De Graffenried (Family : Graffenried, Christoph von, Baron, 1661-1743)
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the De Graffenried Family Papers, #1692, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Thomas P. de Graffenried of Bayside, Long Island, N.Y., 1929-1959.
Addition received from Elwyn de Graffenried of Atlanta, Ga., June 1951.
Additional Descriptive Resources
A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, August 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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Baron Christoph von Graffenried (1661-1743) of Switzerland, Landgrave of Carolina, founded New Bern, N.C., in 1710. His family and descendants resided in Switzerland and America.

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The collection includes pictures, biographical and genealogical clippings and writings, and family data relating to Baron Christoph von Graffenried and his family and descendants in Switzerland and America. One original item is a letter, 1735, from the Baron to his son about genealogy. There is also a rare booklet, 1777, Neuer Schreib-Calender auf das Jahre Christi listing the names of public officials, some from the de Graffenried family.

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Contents list

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Arrangement: materials have, for the most part, been maintained as received.

Folder 1a

Original finding aid

Folder 1-2

Folder 1

Folder 2

Genealogical correspondence (typescripts and manuscripts)

Folder 3

Neuer Schreib-Calender auf das Jahre Christi 1777

Folder 4

"The Lord's Supper" (photocopy)

Folder 5

Schloss Munchenwiler: Villars-les-Moines

Folder 6

Burgistein Castle

Folder 7

Chateau La Poya and Baron Arnold de Graffenried

Folder 8

Seals of Peter de Graffenriet, 1385, and Niclaus de Graffenriet, 1496 (reproductions)

Folder 9

Certificates, 1660 and 1835 (photocopies)

Folder 10

Rene Rudolf von Graffenried (1957), memorial biography

Folder 11

Arthur Graham Glasgow and Ellen Glasgow

Folder 12

Robert Wickliffe Woolley

Folder 13

John Temple Graves and family

Folder 14

Newspaper articles on de Graffenried family (photocopies)

Folder 15

Thomas P. de Graffenried

Image Folder PF-1692/1-7

PF-1692/1

PF-1692/2

PF-1692/3

PF-1692/4

PF-1692/5

PF-1692/6

PF-1692/7

Pictures

Includes photographic reproductions of portraits of de Graffenried family members and dwellings. Persons represented are Abraham de Graffenried (1533-1601), Anton de Graffenried (1573-1628), Anton de Graffenried (1597-1674), Emmanuel de Graffenried (1636-1713), Emmanuel de Graffenried (1665-1738), Bernhard de Graffenried (1684-1747), Barbara de Graffenried (born 1645), Nicholas de Graffenried (1653-1731), Robert P. de Graffenried, J. Lacy de Graffenried, and Matthew Fontaine de Graffenried, among others.

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