Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

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 William Bethell Williamson Papers #2846, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

All or part of this collection is available on microfilm from University Publications of America as part of the Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series J.

Acquisitions Information

Gift of Weldon Williamson of Asheville, N.C., in 1952.

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.

Processed by: Roslyn Holdzkom, August 1992

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

This collection was rehoused under the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Agriculture--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Agriculture--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Caswell County (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Davidson family--Genealogy.
• Diaries (Blank-books)
• Farm life--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Farm life--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Farmers--Religious life.
• Jeffreys, George W.
• Lee family--Genealogy.
• North Carolina--Genealogy.
• Pittsylvania County (N.C.)--History.
• Williamson family--Genealogy.
• Williamson, William Bethell.

• Mary Jeffreys Bethell Diary (#1737-z).

The collection is chiefly 20th century genealogical materials concerning the Williamson, Davidson, and Lea and related families. Also included is a diary, 1842-1848, of George Washington Jeffreys, a preacher in Caswell County, N.C., and Pittsylvania County, Va., concerning his religious thoughts and farming activities.