Stephen Beauregard Weeks Papers, 1746-1941

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Summary

Creator:
Weeks, Stephen Beauregard, 1865-1918.
Abstract:

Stephen Beauregard Weeks (1865-1918) was a white North Carolina educator, historian, and superintendent of San Carlos Boarding School, what was then called an "Indian school," for Apache Indians in San Carlos, Arizona. The collection consists of personal, family, and professional correspondence, papers, diaries, and other volumes. Topics include the history of education in southern states, religion, a dispute at the San Carlos Boarding School, North Carolina history and biograpy, the formation of the Southern Historical Association, southern Quakers and slavery, and George Moses Horton, an African American poet who was enslaved in Chatham County, N.C., during the early 1800s. Also included are the diaries, 1793-1801, of Jeremiah Norman (b. 1771), describing his travels as an itinerant Methodist preacher in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.; typed transcript of a diary, 1746-1771, of Thomas Nicholson (1715-1780), a Quaker writer of Perquimans County, N.C.; minutes, 1815-1817, of the Camden, N.C., Methodist Circuit; a few Moravian items, 1891-1901, in German.

Extent:
15,000 items (38.5 linear feet)
Language:
Materials in English
Library Catalog Link:
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Background

Biographical / historical:

Stephen Beauregard Weeks (1865-1918) was a white North Carolina educator, historian, and superintendent of San Carlos Boarding School, what was then called an "Indian school," for Apache Indians in San Carlos, Arizona.

Scope and content:

The original deposit of the collection contains papers and volumes related primarily to southern education and religion, compiled or created by Stephen B. Weeks, a white North Carolina educator, historian, and superintendent of San Carlos Boarding School, what was then called an "Indian school," for Apache Indians in San Carlos, Arizona. Included are his correspondence about North Carolina historical matters, 1897-1913, and 75 items pertaining to a dispute at San Carlos Boarding School in Arizona, 1903-1905. Volumes consist of the diary, 1793-1801 (14 volumes), of Jeremiah Norman (b. 1771), describing his travels as an itinerant Methodist preacher in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.; typed transcript of a diary, 1746-1771, of Thomas Nicholson (1715-1780), a Quaker writer of Perquimans County, N.C.; minutes, 1815-1817, of the Camden, N.C., Methodist Circuit; and a manuscript copy of Weeks's "Southern Quakers and Slavery" (pub. 1896). Also included are a few Moravian items, 1891-1901, in German; and correspondence, pamphlets, clippings and others materials relating to the formation of the Southern Historical Association in the late 1890s.

The addition of 1982 consists chiefly of personal, family, and professional correspondence and other papers, 1820-1920, relating to the Weeks family and his research on southern education; his work as a superintendent in Arizona; the Biographical History of North Carolina; the U.S. Indian Service; the Southern History Association; George Moses Horton, an African American poet who was enslaved in Chatham County, N.C.; and the Colonial and State Records of North Carolina. Also included are journals, 1880-1900, an account book, a grade book, and receipts.

Acquisition information:

Purchase prior to 1940. Addition received from estate of Mangum and Josephine Weeks in 1982 (Acc. 103650).

Processing information:

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, February 2010; Nancy Kaiser, July and October 2019; Nancy Kaiser and Gillian McCuistion, February 2020

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Access and use

Restrictions to access:

No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to use:

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

No usage restrictions.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], in the Stephen Beauregard Weeks Papers, #762, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of this collection:
Louis Round Wilson Library
200 South Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27515
Contact:
(919) 962-3765
wilsonlibrary@unc.edu