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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 Lenoir Family of Tennessee Papers, #2262, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Deposited by Mrs. Z. C. Patten of Chattanooga, Tenn., 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: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, November 2010; 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.

• Agriculture--Tennessee--History--19th century.
• Cherokee Indians--Tennessee.
• Families--Tennessee--Social life and customs.
• Indian agents--Tennessee--History--19th century.
• Indians of North America--Government relations.
• Lenoir family.
• Lenoir, Albert S., 1803-1861.
• Lenoir, Catherine Frieling Welcker, 1819-1889.
• Military engineers--United States--History--19th century.
• Tennessee--Politics and government--To 1865.
• United States. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Welcker, George Lewis, 1811-1848.

• Lenoir Family Papers (#426).

Albert Sobieski Lenoir (1803-1861) of Loudon County, Tenn., was one of the twelve children of William Ballard Lenoir (1775-1852), who moved from North Carolina to Tennessee in 1810. William B. Lenoir was one of seven children, and his father, General William Lenoir of North Carolina, was one of ten. Albert S. Lenoir married Catharine Frieling Welcker in 1837, and they had ten children. His brother-in-law, George Lewis Welcker, entered the United States Military Academy in in 1832, and died in 1848 having attained the rank of captain in the Corps of Engineers.

This collection consists largely of personal letters addressed to Albert Sobieski Lenoir (1803-1861) and Catharine Frieling Welcker (Lenoir) and to George Lewis Welcker (d. 1848), from their large family connection in North Carolina and Tennessee and from Welcker's friends in the army. There are also papers relating to Albert S. Lenoir's work as Federal issuing agent to the Cherokee Indians, and his business and planting interests, and to Welcker's army engineering work. The later papers are of the next generation. The seventeen volumes are farm records, commonplace books, and albums.

• Separated Volumes (SV-2262/1,4-6,17)