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Collection Number: 01882

Collection Title: Robert Wilson Papers, 1820-1868.

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Size .5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 400 items)
Abstract Business papers of John Dickenson, Samuel Pannill, and Robert Wilson, and the successive general merchandising firms of Dickenson, Pannill and Company; Pannill, Wilson, and Company; and Robert Wilson, Danville, Va. The material pertains to merchandising, tobacco shipments, sawmill and gristmill operations, shopwork, and other activities. Also included are a few personal letters, Wilson family bills, and fragments of manuscript volumes, 1783-1835.
Creator Wilson, Robert, b. 1789.
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.
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 Robert Wilson Papers, #1882, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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: Laura Hart, May 2021

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Business papers of John Dickenson, Samuel Pannill, and Robert Wilson, and the successive general merchandising firms of Dickenson, Pannill and Company; Pannill, Wilson, and Company; and Robert Wilson, Danville, Va. The material pertains to merchandising, tobacco shipments, sawmill and gristmill operations, shopwork, and other activities. Also included are a few personal letters, Wilson family bills, and fragments of manuscript volumes, 1783-1835.

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Contents list

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Approximately 400 items.
Box 1

Folder 1-15

Folder 1

Folder 2

Folder 3

Folder 4

Folder 5

Folder 6

Folder 7

Folder 8

Folder 9

Folder 10

Folder 11

Folder 12

Folder 13

Folder 14

Folder 15

Business papers

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-1882/1

Oversize papers

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