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Collection Number: 05344-z

Collection Title: Samuel Eusebius McCorkle Notebook, circa 1790-1792

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Abstract Samuel Eusebius McCorkle was a North Carolina Presbyterian minister and educator. McCorkle served as president and teacher at the Salisbury Academy, Salisbury, Rowan County, N.C., during the early 1790s. In 1784, McCorkle drafted the first proposal to found a university in the state of North Carolina. However, his proposal was rejected, and the University of North Carolina was not chartered by the legislature until 1789. The collection consists of a notebook in which McCorkle took notes on passages of scripture. The notebook contains handwritten scripture passages with McCorkle's notes facing pages. Notes are often undated, but most dated notes are from the early 1790s.
Creator McCorkle, Samuel Eusebius, 1746-1811.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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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 Samuel Eusebius McCorkle Papers #5344, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from the Presbyterian Historical Society of Montreat, N.C., in 2007 (Acc. 100706).
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: Joyce Chapman, October 2007

Encoded by: Joyce Chapman, October 2007

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Samuel Eusebius McCorkle was a Presbyterian minister and educator. He was born in 1746 in Lancaster Country, Pa., to first generation Irish immigrants. In 1756, his family moved to western North Carolina. McCorkle served as president and teacher at the Salisbury Academy in Salisbury, Rowan County, N.C., during the early 1790s. In 1784, McCorkle drafted the first proposal to found a university in the state of North Carolina. However, his proposal was rejected, and the University of North Carolina was not chartered by the legislature until 1789.

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The collection consists of a notebook in which Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, Presbyterian minister and educator at the Salisbury Academy in Salisbury, N.C. (Rowan County, N.C.), took notes on passages of scripture. The notebook contains handwritten scripture passages with McCorkle's notes facing pages. Notes are often undated, but most dated notes are from the early 1790s.

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Notebook

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