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Size | 100 items |
Abstract | The collection includes family correspondence, chiefly 1840-1850, of John Watson of Brockport, N.Y., New Canaan, Conn., Cleveland, Ohio, and Houston, Tex., with members of his family, particularly his father, William A. Watson of Brockport, his wife, Mary Ann Watson, of New Canaan, his daughter, Julia E. Watson, while she was attending school at West Winsted, Conn., in the early 1850s, and Henry Watson; and correspondence and papers of the Nicholson family of Pasadena, Calif., North Carolina, Indiana, South Dakota, and Kansas, including some Quaker religious writings of William Nicholson and correspondence relating to his activities as a federal Indian agent in Kansas in the 1870s. |
Creator | Nicholson (Family : Nicholson, William, 1826-1899)
Watson (Family : Brockport, N.Y.) |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, April 2010
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.
Diacritics and other special characters have been omitted from this finding aid to facilitate keyword searching in web browsers.
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Members of the Watson and Nicholson family include John Watson of Brockport, N.Y., New Canaan, Conn., Cleveland, Ohio, and Houston, Tex.; his father, William A. Watson; his wife, Mary Ann Watson; his daughter, Julia E. Watson; Henry Watson; and William Nicholson, superintendent of Indian Affairs in Kansas and South Dakota.
Back to TopThe collection includes family correspondence, chiefly 1840-1850, of John Watson of Brockport, N.Y., New Canaan, Conn., Cleveland, Ohio, and Houston, Tex., with members of his family, particularly his father, William A. Watson of Brockport, his wife, Mary Ann Watson, of New Canaan, his daughter, Julia E. Watson, while she was attending school at West Winsted, Conn., in the early 1850s, and Henry Watson; and correspondence and papers of the Nicholson family of Pasadena, Calif., North Carolina, Indiana, South Dakota, and Kansas, including some Quaker religious writings of William Nicholson and correspondence relating to his activities as a federal Indian agent in Kansas in the 1870s.
Back to TopFolder 1 |
Original finding aid |
Papers, 1832-1848 |
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Folder 2 |
Papers, 1850-1887 |
Folder 3 |
Papers, 1890-1899 |