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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 John W. M. Williams Papers, #790, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Dr. McKim Marriott of St. Louis, Mo., 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, July 2010

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.

• Baltimore (Md.)--Religion--19th century.
• Baptists--Maryland--History--19th century.
• Baptists--Sermons.
• Baptists--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Clergy--Maryland--History--19th century.
• Clergy--Southern States--Diaries.
• College students--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Diaries.
• Europe--Description and travel.
• First Baptist Church (Baltimore, Md.)--History--19th century.
• Gore, Joshua Walker, 1852-1908.
• Ministerial Association of the Baptist Church (Portsmouth, Va.)--History--19th century.
• Sermons--History--19th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--History--19th century.
• Williams, John W. M., b. 1820?

John W. M. Williams (born 1820?), native of Portsmouth, Va., was the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Baltimore, Md., 1851-1884. He married Corinthia Read of Maryland. One of their daughters married J. W. Gore of the University of North Carolina.

The collection includes chiefly manuscript sermons, articles, and a diary, 1838-1867, of John W. M. Williams, who was pastor of the First Baptist Church of Baltimore, Md., 1851-1884. The diary begins while Williams was a college student and preacher in his native Virginia, follows his career in Baltimore, and ends with a European tour. Also included are minutes of the Portsmouth, Va., Ministerial Association of the Baptist Church, 1845-1846; a small amount of church correspondence, 1890-1895; and a diary, 1881-1883, of the European trip of Williams's son-in-law, Joshua Walker Gore, who was a member of the faculty of the University of North Carolina.

• Oversize papers (OPF-790/1B and X-OPF-790/1A)