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Collection Number: 03789

Collection Title: Henry W. Faison Papers, 1770-1937

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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 2.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 2,130 items)
Abstract Henry W. (Henry William) Faison (1823-1885) was a physician and cotton farmer of Duplin County, N.C. The collection contains chiefly cotton accounts of Faison with merchants in Wilmington, N.C., and bills, receipts and other business items, as well as estate papers, of Faison and his Faison, Williams, Hicks, and other relatives in Duplin and Sampson counties, N.C. There are a few items relating to slaves and a few concerning Faison's medical practice. Also included are Faison family letters and personal correspondence of members of the Faison family, especially of Winifred Faison, 1892-1937. Many of the family letters concern school and college experiences in the 1870s and 1880s at the University of North Carolina, the University of Virginia, Augusta Female Seminary in Staunton, Va., and other schools. In addition, there is a series of papers, 1809-1884, relating to Buckner Lanier Hill (1800-1860) of Duplin County and his relatives; the connection of Hill to the Faisons is not clear. These papers consist chiefly of financial and legal items, especially estate papers; some relate to illegitimacy.
Creator Faison, Henry W. (Henry William), 1823-1885.
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 Henry W. Faison Papers, #3789, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Anna Pierce (Mrs. Russell H.) Stafford of Washington, D.C., November 1967.
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, June 2009

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

Updated by: Laura Hart, January 2022

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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Henry William Faison (1823-1885) was a physician and cotton farmer of Duplin County, N.C. He married Martha W. Hicks (1832-1900) in 1848 and they had at least nine children including Sallie, Winifred M. (died 1937), Rowland, Henry, Mollie, John M., Percy, and James.

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The collection is chiefly business papers of Henry William Faison relating to his medical practice and cotton plantation and farm including extensive cotton accounts with merchants in Wilmington, N.C., bills and receipts, and correspondence. There are also wills, estate papers, indentures, and other legal and financial documents of Henry William Faison and his Faison, Williams, Hicks, and other relatives in Duplin and Sampson counties, N.C. Also included are Faison family letters and personal correspondence of members of the Faison family, especially of Winifred Faison, 1892-1937. Many of the family letters concern school and college experiences in the 1870s and 1880s at the University of North Carolina, the University of Virginia, Augusta Female Seminary in Staunton, Va., and other schools. In addition, there is a series of papers, 1809-1884, relating to Buckner Lanier Hill (1800-1860) of Duplin County and his relatives; the connection of Hill to the Faisons is not clear. These papers consist chiefly of financial and legal items, especially estate papers; some relate to illegitimacy.

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Contents list

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Folder 1a

Original finding aid

Folder 1

1770-1830

Folder 2

1831-1839

Folder 3

1840-1846

Folder 4

1847-1859

Folder 5

1860-1862

Folder 6

1863-1868

Folder 7

1869

Folder 8

1870

Folder 9

1871

Folder 10

1872

Folder 11

1873

Folder 12

1874

Folder 13

1875

Folder 14

1876

Folder 15

1877

Folder 16

1878

Folder 17

1879

Folder 18

1880

Folder 19

1881

Folder 20

1882

Folder 21

1883

Folder 22

1884

Folder 23

1885

Folder 24

1886

Folder 25

1887

Folder 26

1888

Folder 27

1889

Folder 28

1890

Folder 29

1891

Folder 30

1892

Folder 31

1893-1894

Folder 32

Undated

Fragments

Folder 33

Printed matter

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Folder 34

Introductory material

1820, 1840

Folder 35

1866-1879

Folder 36

1880-1883

Folder 37

1889

Folder 38

1890

Folder 40

1891

Folder 41

1892-1900

Folder 42

1911-1937

Folder 43

Undated and fragments

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Folder 44

1809-1839

Folder 45

1840-1859

Folder 46

1860

Folder 47-48

Folder 47

Folder 48

1861

Folder 49

1862

Folder 50

1863

Folder 51

1864

Folder 52

1865

Folder 53

1866

Folder 54

1867

Folder 55

1868

Folder 56

1869

Folder 57

1870

Folder 58

1871

Folder 59

1872

Folder 60

1873

Folder 61

1874

Folder 62

1875

Folder 63

1876

Folder 64

1877-1878

Folder 65

1879

Folder 66

1880

Folder 67

1881

Folder 68

1882

Folder 69

1883-1884

Folder 70

Undated

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