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No usage restrictions.

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 Henry Houston Patterson Account Books, #3453, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Milton A. Abernethy of New York, December 1959.

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.

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• Account books.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Commerce.
• Davis, F. A., fl. 1880-1881.
• General stores--North Carolina--History.
• Merchants--North Carolina--History.
• Patterson, Henry Houston, 1884-1917.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--History.

• Digital version: Patterson's General Store Ledgers, 1910-1911, available through the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center

Henry Houston Patterson (1884-1917) was a general merchant in Chapel Hill, N.C. Patterson was born in Orange County, N.C., served in the Confederate Army, attended the University of North Carolina, 1866-1867, and was a farmer from 1867 to 1880, when he became a merchant.

The collection includes the accounts of Henry Houston Patterson with both customers and suppliers of his general store in Chapel Hill, N.C., along with accounts for other personal and business activities, 1882-1915, and one account book for F. A. Davis, Chapel Hill, 1880-1881. Patterson handled produce, groceries, general merchandise, notions, and other items. Customers with accounts included the University of North Carolina and some of its individual departments.

Oversize volumes (SV-3453/9-34).