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Collection Number: 03650

Collection Title: Archibald Henderson Papers Relating to Family History, 1891-2007

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Size About 6,000 items (8.5 linear feet).
Abstract Archibald Henderson was an author and University of North Carolina professor of mathematics. The collection contains papers of Archibald Henderson and materials collected by him, relating to his family history and his biographical and historical writing about individual ancestors and numerous related North Carolina historical topics. Materials include typescripts, drafts of Henderson's writings, copies of relevant 18th- and 19th-century manuscripts, notes, compilations, clippings, photographs, and other data, as well as pertinent correspondence. Also included are similar papers of his father, John Steele Henderson of Rowan County, N.C., and of Archibald's two sisters, concerning the same subjects. There are also materials on the family and descendants of Richard Henderson (1734-1785) of North Carolina and Kentucky; concerning Brownrigg, Bailey, Cain, and allied families of North Carolina and Mississippi; and John Steele (1764-1815) and the Ferrand family.
Creator Henderson, Archibald, 1877-1963.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
This collection contains additional materials that are not available for immediate or same day access. Please contact Research and Instructional Service staff at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu to discuss options for consulting these materials.
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 Archibald Henderson Papers Relating to Family History, #3650, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Gift 1963
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
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

Finding Aid Updated by: Amanda Loeb, May 2012, Dawne Howard Lucas, January 2022

Finding aid updated because of addition, November 2018

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Other Henderson family correspondence will be found in SHC #327 and manuscripts of the other related families in collections #39, #124, #327, #689, #2226, and #3876. Henderson's George Bernard Shaw Papers are in collection #3516; other papers of Henderson are in collection #3712. Also, the North Carolina Collection holds about 600 Henderson items related to Daniel Boone, including pictures, notes, copies of manuscripts, and Henderson's correspondence, 1891-1952, about gathering information about Boone.

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Archibald Henderson was an author and University of North Carolina professor of mathematics.

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The collection contains papers of Archibald Henderson and materials collected by him, relating to his family history and his biographical and historical writing about individual ancestors and numerous related North Carolina historical topics. Materials include typescripts, drafts of Henderson's writings, copies of relevant 18th- and 19th-century manuscripts, notes, compilations, clippings, photographs, and other data, as well as pertinent correspondence. Also included are similar papers of his father, John Steele Henderson of Rowan County, N.C., and of Archibald's two sisters, concerning the same subjects. There are also materials on the family and descendants of Richard Henderson (1734-1785) of North Carolina and Kentucky; concerning Brownrigg, Bailey, Cain, and allied families of North Carolina and Mississippi; and John Steele (1764-1815) and the Ferrand family.

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Contents list

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Folder 1

1891-1892

Folder 2

1893

Folder 3

1895-1902

Folder 4

1903-1905

Folder 5

1906

Folder 6

1907-1913

Folder 7

1914-1915

Folder 8

1916-1917

Folder 9

1918-1920

Folder 10

1921-1925

Folder 11

1926-1929

Folder 12

1930-1932

Folder 13

1933-1936

Folder 14

1937-1941

Folder 15

1942-1946

Folder 16

1947-1949

Folder 17

1950-1951

Folder 18

1952-1956

Folder 19

1957-1963

Folder 20

Alexander family

Folder 21

Alexander family

Folder 22

Alexander family

Folder 23

Alexander family

Folder 24

Daniel Boone

Folder 25

Bynum family

Folder 26

Bynum family

Folder 27

Bynum family

Folder 28

David Franklin Caldwell (1791-1867)

Folder 29

Granville County records

Folder 30

Granville County and Vance County miscellaneous and Edgecombe County Court System

Folder 31

Griswold, Roger

Folder 32

Henderson family

Folder 33

Henderson family

Folder 34

Henderson family

Folder 35

Henderson family

Folder 36

Henderson family

Folder 37

Henderson family: Charts

Folder 38

Henderson family: Bible records

Folder 39

Henderson family branches: Nathaniel (b. 1736)

Folder 40

Henderson family branches: Nathaniel

Folder 41

Henderson family branches: Pleasant, 1919-1920

Folder 42

Henderson family branches: Pleasant, 1921

Folder 43

Henderson family branches: Pleasant, 1925-1946

Folder 44

Henderson family branches: Pleasant data

Folder 45

Henderson family branches: Pleasant data

Folder 46

Henderson family branches: Pleasant: Pension Bureau record

Folder 47

Henderson family branches: Pleasant: Sketch of Henderson family

Folder 48

Henderson family branches: Pleasant: James Mautin (Pleasant's son)

Folder 49

Henderson family branches: Pleasant: Eliza Jane (Pleasant's daughter)

Folder 50

Henderson family branches: Pleasant: Dr. Pleasant H. (Pleasant's son)

Folder 51

Henderson family branches: Pleasant: Alexander Martin (Pleasant's son)

Folder 52

Family branches: Samuel, 1917-1918

Folder 53

Family branches: Samuel, 1929

Folder 54

Family branches: Samuel, 1930-1940

Folder 55

Family branches: Samuel, 1949-1952

Folder 56

Family branches: Samuel: Burnt correspondence

Folder 57

Family branches: Samuel: Data and documents

Folder 58

Family branches: Samuel: "Basic Materials for a Sketch" by A. Henderson

Folder 59

Family branches: Samuel

Folder 60

Family branches: Samuel

Folder 61

Family branches: Samuel: Richard Henderson Rivers D.D.

Folder 62

Family branches: Samuel

Folder 63

Family branches: Samuel: Gillespe-Henderson data

Folder 64

Family branches: Samuel: 1920-1940 correspondence about Gillespe-Henderson line

Folder 65

Family branches: Samuel: Pictures

Folder 66

Family branches: Thomas, 1929-1941

Folder 67

Family branches: Thomas, 1905-1927

Folder 68

Family branches: Thomas, 1905-1942

Folder 69

Family branches: Thomas, 1943-1961

Folder 70

Family branches: Thomas (1752-1821)

Folder 71

Family branches: Thomas (T. Henderson's son Thomas Henderson (1787-1836))

Folder 72

Family branches: Thomas

Folder 73

Family branches: Thomas

Folder 74

Family branches: Thomas

Folder 75

Family branches: Thomas

Folder 76

Family branches: Thomas

Folder 77

Family branches: Thomas: "Record of the Henderson Family," 28 January 1878

Folder 78

Family branches: William and John, 1916-1921

Folder 79

Family branches: William and John, 1922

Folder 80

Family branches: William and John, 1923-1927

Folder 81

Family branches: William and John, 1928

Folder 82

Family branches: William and John, 1929-1942

Folder 83

Family branches: William and John: Mrs. Perry's notes and correspondence, 1923-1928

Folder 84

Family branches: William and John

Folder 85

Family branches: William and John

Folder 86

Family branches: Richard: Transylvania County

Folder 87

Family branches: Richard: Transylvania County, Nathan Reid, Thomas Walker, Hart geneology

Folder 88

Family branches: Richard (daughter Frances married Spruce Macay in 1785)

Folder 89

Family branches: Richard (Granddaughter Elizabteh Macay married William Carter Love)

Folder 90

Family branches: Richard (son John Lawson Henderson)

Folder 91

Family branches: Richard's sisters

Folder 92

Family branches: Leonard, son of Richard, 1905-1913

Folder 93

Family branches: Leonard, son of Richard, 1914

Folder 94

Family branches: Leonard, son of Richard, 1915-1919

Folder 95

Family branches: Leonard, son of Richard, 1920-1929

Folder 96

Family branches: Leonard, son of Richard, 1931-1941

Folder 97

Family branches: Leonard, son of Richard, January-June 1942

Folder 98

Family branches: Leonard, son of Richard July-December, 1942

Folder 99

Family branches: Leonard, son of Richard, 1943-1946

Folder 100

Family branches: Leonard, son of Richard: Data compiled by A. Henderson

Folder 101

Family branches: Leonard, son of Richard: Data from Mrs. Fred Fowler

Folder 102a

Family branches: Leonard, son of Richard: Pictures

Folder 102b

Family branches: Leonard, son of Richard: Enclousures: Mrs. Fowler's blue notebook

Folder 102c

Family branches: Leonard, son of Richard: Williams, Martin, Henderson, Page, etc.

Folder 102d

Family branches: Leonard, son of Richard: Taylor, Keeling-Bullock, Henderson, Martin, Hunter, Wiggs, etc.

Folder 102e

Family branches: Leonard, son of Richard: Williams

Folder 102f

Family branches: Leonard, son of Richard: Address of James Hunter, Joseph Morehead, 1827

Folder 103

Family branches: Leonard, son of Richard

Folder 104

Family branches: Leonard, son of Richard

Folder 105

Family branches: Leonard, son of Richard: Pictures

Folder 106

Family branches: Archibald I

Folder 107

Family branches: Archibald I

Folder 108

Family branches: Archibald I

Folder 109

Family branches: Archibald I

Folder 110

Family branches: Archibald I

Folder 111

Family branches: Archibald I

Folder 112

Family branches: Archibald I

Folder 113

Family branches: Archibald II

Folder 114

Family branches: Archibald (daughter of Jane Gardine Mitchell Boydon)

Folder 115

Family branches: Archibald II (grandsons Leonard A. and Richard)

Folder 116

Family branches: J.S. Henderson: Biographical articles and data

Folder 117

Family branches: J.S. Henderson: Obituary, October 1916

Folder 118

Family branches: J.S. Henderson: R.F.D. and correspondence, 1925-1926, 1934-1939

Folder 119

Family branches: J.S. Henderson: "National Park Genesis to Great Smokey National Park" correspondence, 1939-1940

Folder 120

Other Hendersons

Folder 121

Other Hendersons

Folder 122

Other Hendersons

Folder 123

Andrew Jackson

Folder 124

Lincoln County Old Homes

Folder 125

Litchfield law school

Folder 126

Locke, Matthew (1730-1801) and nephew Francis Locke

Folder 127

Lord family and Haughton

Folder 128

Colonel Malmady of the American Revolution

Folder 129

Martin family

Folder 130

Rowan County Bicentennial. 1953

Folder 131

Rowan County: Salisbury: Miscellaneous notes and copies

Folder 132

Rowan County: Salisbury, 1861-1865

Folder 133

Rowan County: Thyatera Presbyterian Church

Folder 134

Saint Mary's School, Raleigh

Folder 135

Smith, Ashbel

Folder 136

Smith, Ashbel

Folder 137a

John Stanly and William Gaston

Folder 137b

John Stanly and William Gaston

Folder 138

Tiernam, Mrs. Florence C. Fisher

Folder 139

University of North Carolina Memorial Hall tablets, 1945-1947

Folder 140

Williams, Bullock, Keeling, Ridley

Folder 141

Williams, Bullock, Keeling, Ridley

Folder 142

Williams, Bullock, Keeling, Ridley (Bromfield Ridley)

Folder 143

Williams, Bullock, Keeling, Ridley

Folder 144

Williams geneology received from Reverend John Bryan Williams

Folder 145

Joseph Wilson, by Katherine Wilson Alexander

Folder 146a

Photographs

Folder 146b

Photographs

Folder 147a

House plans (Mrs. Cotton's Handwriting)

Folder 147b

Unsorted notes

Folder 147c

Unsorted notes

Folder 147d

Unsorted notes

Folder 147e

Notes of Miss Mary F. Henderson

Folder 147f

Theo S. Garnett, 1812-1885

Folder 147g

Unsorted Notes

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Folder 176

1890; 1903-1909

Folder 177

1912-1914

Folder 178

1915-1918

Folder 179

1919-1922

Folder 180

1923-1929

Folder 181

1932-1938

Folder 182

1939-1947

Folder 183

1948-1951

Folder 184

1954-1964

Folder 185

Elizabeth Maxwell Steele (1773-1791)

Folder 186

Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, 7 October 1948

Folder 187

Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, 24 November 1948

Folder 188

Elizabeth Maxwell Steele: Nathaniel Greene, Thyatira County

Folder 189

E.M. Steele: Portraits of George III and Queen Charlotte

Folder 190

E.M. Steele: Pictures

Folder 191

Samuel Eusebius McCorkle (1746-1811)

Folder 192

Samuel Eusebius McCorkle

Folder 193

John Steele: Biographical sketch

Folder 194

John Steele: Bibliography

Folder 195

John Steele: Copies, 1773-1790

Folder 196

John Steele: Copies, 1791-1801

Folder 197

John Steele: Copies, 1802-1804

Folder 198

John Steele: Copies, 1805-1843

Folder 199

John Steele, 1843, 1845

Folder 200

John Steele: Notes and copies

Folder 201

John Steele: Notes and copies

Folder 202

John Steele: Notes and copies, 1793-1880 (Library of Congress)

Folder 203

John Steele: Notes and copies

Folder 204

John Steele

Folder 205

John Steele

Folder 206

John Steele

Folder 207

Ferrand: Notes and data

Folder 208

Ferrand: Data from Miss Alice Noble: Chapman, Blackhouse, Primrose, Guion, etc.

Folder 209

Ferrand, Sauage, Pugh

Folder 210

Miscellaneous data

Folder 211

Maxwell and Chambers

Folder 212

Nesfield and Cochran connections

Folder 213

Steels and Steeles in Pennsylvania

Folder 214

Clippings: Steele

Folder 215

Clippings: Steele-Ferrand

Folder 216

Plates for illustrations: John Steele from J. Peale miniature

Folder 217

Plates for illustrations: A. Henderson Blanchard's balloon article

Folder 218

Plates for illustrations

Folder 219

Plates for illustrations

Folder 220

"The Life and Times of Samuel Henderson Sr. (1700-1783) of Nutbush Creek, Granville County, North Carolina," by Harvey Hobbs Henderson

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