Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

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 Simmons J. Baker Papers #42-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

All or part of this collection is available on microfilm from University Publications of America as part of the Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series J.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Lena Smith of Scotland Neck, N.C., and Claiborne Smith of Rocky Mount, N.C., in May 1944.

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: Scott Philyaw, April 1992

Encoded by: Roslyn Holdzkom, July 2007

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, December 2009 and October 2010

This collection was rehoused under the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.

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.

• Account books.
• Agriculture--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Baker family.
• Baker, Simmons J. (Simmons Jones), 1775-1853.
• Estates (Law)--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Families--Virginia--Social life and customs.
• Farm life--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Free African Americans--North Carolina.
• Plantations--North Carolina.
• Slavery--North Carolina.
• Watson, Thomas H., fl. 1845-1859.

• Blanche Baker Papers (#903)

Simmons Jones Baker appears to have been a physician of Scotland Neck, N.C.

The collection includes recollections of the Baker and related families of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, written from personal knowledge and tradition by physician Simmons J. Baker in 1847, with a few undated genealogical notes; a volume of farm accounts and some merchandise shipping records, 1845-1854, of Thomas H. Watson, planter of eastern North Carolina, including a few accounts with slaves or free blacks and entries relating to Baker's estate, 1853-1854; and a few miscellaneous receipts and other enclosures, 1800-1859 and undated.

• Oversize papers (OP-42/1-5)