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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Helen M. Blount Prescott Papers, #1509, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from William R. Prescott of Atlanta, Ga., July 1948.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 2010

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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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• Adams family.
• Antislavery movements--Georgia.
• Blount family.
• Columbus (Ga.)--History.
• Diaries.
• Family--Georgia--Social life and customs.
• Fort Gaines (Ga.)--History.
• Genealogists--United States--Correspondence.
• Hill family.
• Howard family.
• Hughes family.
• Prescott family.
• Prescott, Helen M. Blount.
• Randolph family.
• Reynolds family.
• Slade family.
• Women--Georgia--Diaries.
• Women--Georgia--Social conditions.

• See also Thomas Bog Slade Papers (#2683), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Helen M. Blount Prescott was a genealogist of Atlanta, Ga.

The collection is chiefly correspondence and notes, 1910-1940, of Helen M. Blount Prescott. The Adams, Blount, Hill, Howard, Hughes, Randolph, and Reynolds families are among those represented. Also included are thirteen antebellum letters of the Prescott and Slade families of Fort Gaines (Columbus County) and Columbus, Ga., including one, 1835, from George W. Prescott, Fort Gaines, describing unrest among the slaves caused by abolitionist activities, and a series of letters, 1852-1863, from members of the Slade family to a family friend describing social and family life, especially of Emma (Slade) Prescott. Also included are diaries and personal records of Helen M. Blount Prescott and her mother, occasionally 1915 to 1944, about daily domestic life.