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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 Chambers Family Papers #2828, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson 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 William S. Powell in 1962; Louise Norwood McNeely in 1962; Elizabeth Chambers Holt and her brother and sister in 1963; Mrs. J. M. Hall, Jr., in 1966; and Mrs. Lenoir Chambers in 1971.

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: Roslyn Holdzkom, September 1992

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, January 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.

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• Account books.
• Chambers family--Genealogy.
• Chambers family.
• Chambers, Joseph, 1791-1848.
• Chambers, Pinckney Brown, 1821-1905.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 49th.
• Farmville Plantation (Iredell County, N.C.)
• Iredell County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Morganton (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Perkins family.
• Plantations--North Carolina--Iredell County.
• Salisbury (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Statesville (N.C.)--Economic conditions--19th century.
• Williams family.

• Henry A. Chambers Papers (#2260)

Members of the Chambers family of Iredell County, N.C., included Henry Chambers (1708-1782), who moved from Pennsylvania to Iredell (then Rowan) County where he bought a large tract of land on Third Creek in 1754. His son, Henry Chambers (1750-1817), who farmed the land his father had purchased, and was the father of Joseph Chambers (1791-1848). Joseph Chambers was a businessman in Salisbury, N.C., before his father's death, but moved home and continued the planting operation after his father died. He apparently built the family home, called Farmville, around 1820.

Joseph's son, Pinckney Brown Chambers (1821-1905) also planted at Farmville. During the Civil War, he raised a company from Iredell and Rowan counties and served as major with the 49th North Carolina Regiment. He was wounded at the Battle of Malvern Hill. After the war, he struggled to continue farming operations at Farmville with little help. Old and infirm, Pinckney and his wife, Justina Avery Chambers, sold the farm and moved into Statesville in 1898. After his wife's death, Pinckney moved to the Charlotte home of his eldest son, Joseph Lenoir Chambers (1854-1925), where he died in 1905.

Henry Alexander Chambers (b. 1841), born David Henry Alexander Chambers, only son of Joseph Chambers (1820-1842) and Ellen Cashion Chambers (1820-1898), lived with his grandfather Henry Chambers in Iredell County until the summer of 1853, when Pinckney Brown Chambers became his guardian. Henry Alexander Chambers became a lawyer and established a practice in Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1888. He married Laura Lenoir (d. 1891) in 1867 and had two sons: Henry Lenior (1871-1872) and Joseph Pinckney (1875-1920), who committed suicide after suffering a crippling stroke.

The collectionincludes manuscripts by and about members of the Chambers family of Iredell County, N.C. Volumes include the account book, 1816-1865, of Joseph Chambers (1791-1848); account book, 1841-1884, of Joseph Chambers and his son, Pinckney Brown Chambers at "Farmville," an Iredell County plantation, and at Morganton and Statesville; merchants' accounts, 1852- 1854, kept at Salisbury, N.C.; captain's record book, 1865, for Company C, 49th North Carolina Regiment, C.S.A.; three volumes of Chambers family history from 1708 to 1918; and miscellaneous letters.

• Oversize volumes (SV-2828/5-6)
• Microfilm (M-2828/1)