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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 Thomas Webb Papers, #761, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Bell Webb of Hillsboro, N.C., and Thomas H. Webb of Concord, N.C., prior to 1940.

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.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009

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.

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.

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• American poetry--North Carolina--19th century.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Fayetteville (N.C.)--Politics and government.
• Health resorts--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Hillsborough (N.C.)--Politics and government.
• Hymns, English--United States--19th century.
• Jones County (N.C.)--History.
• Kittrell's Springs (N.C.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--War work.
• Poets, American--North Carolina--19th century.
• Randolph County (N.C.)--History.
• Saint Louis (Mo.)--Social life and customs.
• Soldiers Aid Association (Orange County, N.C.)
• Webb, Thomas, 1827-1894.
• Webb, William, fl. 1850.

• Thomas Webb papers, College of William and Mary.

Thomas Webb (1827-1894) of Orange County, N.C. was a lawyer, state legislator, president of the North Carolina Railroad Company, and graduate of the University of North Carolina.

The collection includes family papers of Thomas Webb, including letters, chiefly 1845-1850, deeds, and other items. Papers dated 1770-1839 are miscellaneous receipts, deeds, indentures, plats, and other items relating primarily to Jones and Randolph counties, N.C. Correspondence includes letters about politics in Hillsborough and Fayetteville, N.C., in the 1840s; a series of letters, circa 1850, from William Webb, brother of Thomas Webb, describing his life in St. Louis, Mo., and attendance at a medical convention in Cincinnati, Ohio; letters, 1860, from Thomas Webb to his wife describing life at Kittrell's Springs, N.C., a health resort; and other family letters. Business papers include signatures of Nicholas Coble, Richard Reynolds, John Long, and William J. Long. Also included are a notebook containing hymns with muscial notations and lyrics, and poems, 1846-1850 and undated, some by Thomas Webb; and a list of subscribers to the Soldiers' Aid Association of Orange County, N.C., in 1862. There are no Civil War letters and few items related to Webb's activities as lawyer, legislator, or railroad president.