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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 Benjamin Robinson and Benjamin West Robinson Account Books, #3155, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. S. Ruffin Horne of Fayetteville, N.C., July 1955.

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, June 2009; Dawne Howard Lucas, May 2021

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.

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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.
• Cumberland County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
• Medicine--Practice--Accounting--History--19th century.
• Physicians--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Robinson, Benjamin West.
• Robinson, Benjamin, 1775-1857.

Benjamin Robinson (1775-1857) was born in Bennington, Vt., and settled in Fayetteville, N.C., about 1805. He was a physician and surgeon of the upper Cape Fear region. His son, Benjamin West Robinson, was also a physician.

The collection includes thirteen ledgers, eleven daybooks, and two other volumes of Benjamin Robinson (1775-1857) and Benjamin West Robinson, and also of Hall and Robinson, a partnership of T. C. Hall and Benjamin Robinson. These volumes contain records of accounts with residents of Cumberland County, N.C., and nearby areas for medical advice, professional visits, and medicine dispensed. Some records give details of address, occupation, or race of patient, and nature of complaints and drugs prescribed, but most do not. Most of the volumes contain a few miscellaneous records in addition to the contents listed.

Oversize volumes (SV-3155/2,5,6,9,11,13-15,18).