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No restrictions. Open for research.

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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 Universalist Convention of North Carolina Records #5326, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Universalist Convention of North Carolina Inc. in 2007 (Acc. 100636).

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: Joyce Chapman, September 2007

Encoded by: Joyce Chapman, September 2007

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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• North Carolina--Religion.
• North Carolina--Religious life and customs.
• Unitarian Universalist Association.
• Unitarian Universalist churches--North Carolina.
• Unitarian churches--North Carolina.
• Universalist Church of America.
• Universalist Convention of North Carolina.
• Universalist churches--North Carolina.
• Universalists--North Carolina.

The Unitarian Universalist Church is a religious tradition formed through a merging of two religious denominations in 1961: the Universalists (founded in 1793), and the Unitarians (founded in 1825). The Universalist Convention of North Carolina was formed in 1895 with the goal of promoting coordinated growth of Universalism in eastern North Carolina. In 1905, the Convention received a charter of incorporation from the state, giving it non-profit status. It is comprised of various Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist congregations across the state; it publishes a newsletter called The Tar Heel Universalist.

The collection contains records of the Universalist Convention of North Carolina. There are records, 1846-1847, from Limestone Church, the first Universalist Church in Duplin County, N.C. There are also records, 1897-1929, from Magnolia Church, including an undated list of officers; a program from 1908; a sheet of meeting minutes, 1922; and donation slips and envelopes, 1921-1924. Also included are materials relating to the first through 88th annual sessions of the Convention, 1906-1993; annual reports; records from special executive board meetings; and documents from the Coastal Carolina Extension Project (1986), the Eastern North Carolina Program Resources Project (1987-1988), and the Proposal for a Universalist Foundation (1987).