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Collection Number: 00836

Collection Title: Joseph Brevard Kershaw Papers, 1762-1938.

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 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 150 items)
Abstract Joseph Brevard Kershaw (1822-1894) was a general in the Confederate Army. The collection includes papers pertaining to the Kershaw family and the DeSaussure family of South Carolina, chiefly 20th-century genealogical materials. Earlier items include colonial deeds and accounts for goods; scattered antebellum correspondence; slight postwar correspondence of Joseph Brevard Kershaw (1822-1894); and correspondence, 1899-1938, of John Kershaw, Episcopal priest of Charleston, S.C., including copies of letters he wrote from the Lambeth Conference in London, 1908.
Creator Kershaw, Joseph Brevard, 1822-1894.

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 Joseph Brevard Kershaw Papers, #836, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Harriette Kershaw (Mrs. H. G.) Leiding of Charleston, S.C., June 1944.
Additional Descriptive Resources
A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.
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 2010; Nancy Kaiser, January 2021

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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Joseph Brevard Kershaw (1822-1894) was a Confederate general.

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The collection includes papers pertaining to the Kershaw and DeSaussure families of South Carolina, chiefly 20th-century genealogical materials. Earlier items include colonial deeds and accounts for goods; scattered antebellum correspondence; slight postwar correspondence of Confederate General Joseph Brevard Kershaw; and correspondence, 1899-1938, of John Kershaw, including copies of letters he wrote from the Lambeth Conference in London, England, 1908.

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Contents list

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Folder 1

Original finding aid

1762-1857

Folder 2

1869-1902

Folder 3

1908

Folder 4

1911-1938

Folder 5

Genealogical data

Folder 6

Genealogical data

Folder 7

Genealogical data

Folder 8

Genealogical data

Folder 9

Genealogical data

Folder 10

Folder number not used

Oversize Volume SV-836/1

Volume 1: Scrapbook, 1931-1936

Includes clippings and pictures about South Carolina plantations and gardens and their owners.

Folder 11

Volume 2: Scrapbook, 1861-1876

Includes clippings about events, pictures, and genealogical notes.

Folder 12

Volume 3: Marriage book, undated

Includes a list of marriages, consisting of alphabetical entries for each party concerned.

Folder 13

Volume 4: Genealogical notes, undated

Folder 14

Volume 5: Genealogical notes, undated

Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-836/1

DeSaussure genealogical chart

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