Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

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 Andrew Methodist Chapel Records, #3254-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift 1956

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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: Kathryn Michaelis, March 2011

This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.

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.

• Andrew Methodist Chapel (Sampson County, N.C.)
• Church records and registers--North Carolina--History.
• Methodism--North Carolina--History.
• Methodist Church--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Owen family.
• Owen, Miles P., fl. 1867-1879.
• Parker family.
• Sampson County (N.C.)--Church history.

Andrew Methodist Chapel operated in Sampson County, N.C.

The collection contains extracts from the records of the chapel's congregation. Included are the Reverend Miles P. Owen's notes on the history of local Methodism, 1867; notes on the Parker and Owen families from 1785; lists of church members, compiled 1867-1879 but dating back to 1785, and of ministers, 1785-1955; and memoranda on quarterly conferences involving Andrew Methodist Chapel, 1815-1866.