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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 Frederick Jones Hill Papers, #2469-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Microfilm copy of notebook available.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Arthur Hill London of Durham, N.C., 1961.

Received from Lawrence London of Chapel Hill, N.C., April 1970.

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, January 2009

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.

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• College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York--History.
• Hill, Frederick Jones, 1790-1861.
• Hosack, David, 1769-1835.
• Medical education--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
• Medicine--Study and teaching--New York (State)--History--19th century.
• Wills--North Carolina--History--19th century.

Frederick Jones Hill (1790-1861) of Brunswick County and Wilmington, N.C., was a planter, North Carolina state legislator, and member of the state convention of 1835. He was a student at the University of North Carolina and attended College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, N.Y., 1811-1812, where he studied under David Hosack (1769-1835).

David Hosack had a distinguished career in medical practice and teaching and was prominent in the social and cultural life of New York City.

The collection contains a notebook (174 pages) containing notes made by Frenderick Hill when he was a student at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of lectures delivered by David Hosack on various diseases and branches of medicine, and memoranda about examinations, the weather, and conversations with Hosack; and a manuscript copy of Hill's will.