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Size | 2.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1500 items) |
Abstract | The collection contains the nineteenth-century papers of white Presbyterian minister Neill McKay (1816-1893) of Harnett County, N.C., and the mid-twentieth-century papers of his daughter Frances Reid Ross (1880-1977) of Lillington, N.C. Financial and legal documents comprise the majority of Neill McKay's papers, and many items pertain to land sales in Cumberland and Harnett Counties, N.C. Documents include bills payable, receipts, accounts, land surveys, indentures, deeds, and estate papers, and some items predate McKay's life years, dating back to the mid-eighteenth century. Scattered correspondence pertains chiefly to financial matters. Materials related to his ministerial responsibilities and the Presbyterian Church are slight. Although he had extensive landholdings and owned African American slaves, McKay's papers include little documentation of enslaved people. Correspondence, printed items, and notes particularly on the history of the Presbyterian Church comprise the majority of Frances Ross's papers. Ross taught parliamentary law and procedure, and much of her correspondence pertains to requests from women's clubs, church organizations, training schools and colleges, and the Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics through State College of North Carolina (now North Carolina State University) for her to teach. Organizations represented in Ross's correspondence and other papers include the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, the Garden Club of North Carolina, Inc., the Committee on Woman's Work and later the Board of Women's Work for The Presbyterian Church in the United States, the North Carolina chapter of American War Mothers, Kings Mountain Junior Woman's Club, Flora MacDonald College in Red Springs, N.C., and Peace College in Raleigh, N.C. Acquired as part of the Southern Historical Collection. |
Creator | McKay, Neill.
Ross, Frances Reid, 1880-1977. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
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Neill McKay (1816-1893) was a white Presbyterian minister of Harnett County, N.C. He owned land in Cumberland and Harnett Counties, N.C., and also owned African American slaves.
Frances Reid Ross (1880-1977) was a daughter of Neill McKay and his third wife, Maggie Murchison McKay. She taught parliamentary law and procedure and received requests from many women's clubs and church organizations.
Back to TopThe collection contains the nineteenth-century papers of white Presbyterian minister Neill McKay (1816-1893) of Harnett County, N.C., and the mid-twentieth-century papers of his daughter Frances Reid Ross (1880-1977) of Lillington, N.C. Financial and legal documents comprise the majority of Neill McKay's papers, and many items pertain to land sales in Cumberland and Harnett Counties, N.C. Documents include bills payable, receipts, accounts, land surveys, indentures, deeds, and estate papers, and some items predate McKay's life years, dating back to the mid-eighteenth century. Scattered correspondence pertains chiefly to financial matters. Materials related to his ministerial responsibilities and the Presbyterian Church are slight. Although he had extensive landholdings and owned African American slaves, McKay's papers include little documentation of enslaved people. Correspondence, printed items, and notes particularly on the history of the Presbyterian Church comprise the majority of Frances Ross's papers. Ross taught parliamentary law and procedure, and much of her correspondence pertains to requests from women's clubs, church organizations, training schools and colleges, and the Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics through State College of North Carolina (now North Carolina State University) for her to teach. Organizations represented in Ross's correspondence and other papers include the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, the Garden Club of North Carolina, Inc., the Committee on Woman's Work and later the Board of Women's Work for The Presbyterian Church in the United States, the North Carolina chapter of American War Mothers, Kings Mountain Junior Woman's Club, Flora MacDonald College in Red Springs, N.C., and Peace College in Raleigh, N.C.
The Addition of August 2008 contains combined papers of Rev. Neill McKay and his daughter, Frances Reid Ross, consisting primarily of financial material and smaller amounts of correspondence and papers relating to the church.
Back to TopArrangement: alphabetical by folder title, with Frances Reid Ross papers following Neill McKay papers.
Folder 1 |
McKay: Correspondence, 1795-1901 |
Folder 2-3
Folder 2Folder 3 |
McKay: Deeds, 1740-1908 and undated |
Folder 4-6
Folder 4Folder 5Folder 6 |
McKay: Financial, 1738-1895 and undated |
Folder 7 |
McKay: Indentures, 1790-1895 |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-05388/1 |
McKay: Indentures and land grants, 1793-1871 |
Folder 8 |
McKay: Personal papers, 1836-1929 |
Folder 9 |
Ross: Church, 1949-1966 |
Folder 10 |
Ross: Church newsletters, 1959-1965 |
Folder 11-12
Folder 11Folder 12 |
Ross: Clippings, 1937-1955 |
Folder 13-14
Folder 13Folder 14 |
Ross: Correspondence, 1948-1960 |
Folder 15 |
Ross: Notes, 1948-1959 |
Folder 16 |
Ross: Women's clubs, 1955-1961 |
Folder 17 |
Ross: Woman's Training School and American War Mothers, 1948-1961 |
Image Folder PF-05388/1 |
Group photograph of unidentified children and adults, with "Summer Villa" on verso |
Arrangement: alphabetical by folder title.
Acquisitions information: Accession 101073
Combined papers of Rev. Neill McKay and his daughter, Frances Reid Ross, consisting primarily of financial material and smaller amounts of correspondence and papers relating to the church.
Folder 18 |
Church, 1858-1936 |
Folder 19 |
Clippings, 1949 and undated |
Folder 20 |
Correspondence, 1821-1896 |
Folder 21 |
Deeds, 1790-1913 |
Folder 22 |
Financial, 1866-1909 |
Folder 23 |
Indentures, 1801-1855 |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-05388/2 |
Indentures, 1807-1890 |
Folder 24 |
Related papers, 1851-1975 |
Folder 25 |
Rev. Neill McKay personal papers, 1877-1949 |