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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 Buchanan and Screven Family Papers #99-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Typed transcription available.

Acquisitions Information

Acquired prior to 1940

Additional Descriptive Resources

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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.

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• Buchanan family.
• Buchanan, Franklin, 1800-1874.
• Jones, Catesby Ap Roger, 1821-1877.
• Palmer, James Croxall, 1811-1883.
• Screven family.
• Screven, John, fl. 1801.
• Slave records.

• Franklin Buchanan Papers (#97); Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The collection includes a letter from John Screven to his son, John Screven Junior, 1801; record of a slave sale, 1858; letter to Mrs. Franklin Buchanan from James C. Palmer mentioning Admiral Buchanan's defeat by Farragut, 1864; two letters from Henry N. Marmaduke of the United States Navy Department Library enclosing sketches of Admiral Franklin Buchanan and Captain Catesby Jones, 1913; and three newspaper clippings on Admiral Buchanan.