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No restrictions. Open for research.

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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 Simeon Colton Papers, #1394-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Typed transcription of most 1851 entries available.

Acquisitions Information

Received from George D. Upson of Wilmette, Ill., October 1947.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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, December 2009

Finding aid updated for digitization by Kathryn Michaelis, September 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.

• Asheboro (N.C.)--Religious life and customs.
• Clergy--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Clergy--Religious life--North Carolina--19th century.
• Colton family.
• Colton, Elijah, fl. 1840.
• Colton, Simeon, 1785-1868.
• Fayetteville (N.C.)--Religious life and customs.
• Methodist Church--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• New England--Description and travel.
• New Orleans (La.)--Description and travel.
• Preaching--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Presbyterian Church--Clergy--Religious life--19th century.
• Presbyterian Church--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Schools--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Secession.
• Southern States--Description and travel.
• United States--Description and travel.

Simeon Colton (1785-1868), native of Connecticut, was a Congregational and Presbyterian minister, who lived for some time near Fayetteville and Asheboro, N.C., where he taught at schools and preached to Presbyterian and Methodist churches.