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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 Gaston Hillary Wilder Papers, #779, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received From James I. Wilder of Birmingham, Ala., prior to 1940.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1aa.

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; Nancy Kaiser, January 2021

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.

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

• Farms--Alabama--History--19th century.
• Greene County (Ala.)--Economic conditions.
• Johnston County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Plantations--North Carolina.
• United States. Army--Pay, allowances, etc.
• Wake County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Wilder, Gaston Hillary, 1814-1873.
• Wilder, Samuel.
• Wilder, Sarah E. Hinton.
• Women--North Carolina--History--19th century.

Gaston Hillary Wilder (1814-1873) was a planter of Johnston and Wake counties, N.C. He was a paymaster in the United States Army in the Mexican War.

The collection includes antebellum deeds, legal papers, and scattered accounts and letters of Gaston H. Wilder. Included are Wilder's account book as paymaster in the United States Army during the Mexican War; scattered household accounts and letters of Wilder's wife, Sarah E. Hinton Wilder, after his death; and papers of his brother, Samuel Wilder, of Greene County, Ala., including a farm account book, 1876-1880, general merchandise account books, 1885-1911, and other business papers.

• Oversize volume (SV-779/1)