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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the John Benson Papers, #4066-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased 1975.

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: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 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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• Agriculture--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Benson, John.
• Greene County (Ala.)--History--19th century.
• Guardian and ward--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Hyde County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Merchants--Alabama--History--19th century.
• Shelton, George S.
• Teachers--North Carolina--History--19th century.

John Benson (fl. 1840) of Lake Comfort, Hyde County, N.C., was a justice of the peace and member of the militia.

The collection includes miscellaneous papers and correspondence of John Benson of Lake Comfort, Hyde County, N.C., pertaining to the sale of crops, the care of a minor for whom he was guardian, local legislation, the hiring of workmen and a teacher for the county school, and other business affairs. Included are four detailed personal letters from George H. Shelton, merchant and innkeeper of Havana, Greene County, Ala., describing his activities and life in the area, 1847-1856. Also included is an undated list of the South Lake Company (presumably militia).