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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the McClelland Family Papers, #3869, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Hugh H. Wooten of Luray, Va., November 1968.

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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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 2009

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

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• Adams, William M., 1838-1918.
• Christian County (Ky.)--Social life and customs.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 4th.
• Ewing family.
• Family--Kentucky--Social life and customs.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Iredell County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• McClelland family.
• McClelland, Nathaniel Ewing, -1834.
• Medical students--Kentucky--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Physicians--North Carolina--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• Stevenson family.
• Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965.
• Transylvania University.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Among the members of the McClelland family of Iredell County, N.C., were William McClelland, surveyor; Nathaniel E. McClelland, physician; John McClelland, Rebecca McClelland, and Margaret McClelland. Relatives also included the Stevenson, Hall, and Adams families of Iredell County, N.C., and the Ewing family of Christian County, Ky.

The collection includes family letters, land surveys, and legal and other papers, chiefly 1800-1834 and 1861-1863, of the McClellands of Iredell County, N.C., and related families, including the Stevensons of Iredell County and the Ewings of Christian County, Ky. Included are letters and other papers written by Nathaniel Ewing McClelland while he was a medical student at Transylvania University, Ky., 1829-1831, and while he was a physician in Rutherford County, N.C., 1832-1833; fifty letters to his parents in Statesville, N.C., from William McClelland Adams, sergeant of the 4th North Carolina Regiment, Confederate States of America, in Virginia; and some 20th-century items tracing the relationship of Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1900-1965) to the families in the papers. Also included is a map, 1773, of Fourth Creek Congregation and various copies and related items.

• Photographs (OP-PF-3869/1)
• Oversize papers (XOPF-3869/1)