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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 James Avery Papers, #1635, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Loan from Waightsill H. Avery of Morganton, N.C., August 1949.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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, April 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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Avery, James, 1791-1872.
• Burke County (N.C.)--History.
• Burke County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
• Education--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Estates (Law)--North Carolina.
• Justices of the peace--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Labor contract--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Schools--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Schools--North Carolina--Records and correspondence.

James Avery (1791-1872) of Morganton, N.C., was a planter, chairman of supervisors of Burke County, N.C., common schools, justice of the peace, and vestryman of the Episcopal church.

The collection includes correspondence, bills, tax receipts, notes, labor contracts, estate settlement papers, and other materials, chiefly 1840-1872, of James Avery. The bulk of the collection consists of district school reports, 1853-1861, giving names of Burke County, N.C., teachers and pupils and number of days taught. Also included are items addressed to Avery as justice of the peace and as chairman of his church vestry.