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Collection Number: 03203-z

Collection Title: Frances Broadfoot Claypoole Papers, 1766-1856; 1930-1949.

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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.

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Size 162 items
Abstract Frances Broadfoot Claypoole was a genealogist from New Bern, N.C. The collection is primarily letters written to Claypoole during the 1930s and 1940s requesting data on branches of her family and various other New Bern families. Also included are a few financial and legal papers and letters, 1766-1856, the earlier ones relating to business in Boston, Mass., and the later ones to land ownership and other business in eastern North Carolina.
Creator Claypoole, Frances Broadfoot.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
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 Frances Broadfoot Claypoole Papers, #3203-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received 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.
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Frances Broadfoot Claypoole was a genealogist from New Bern, N.C.

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The collection is primarily letters written to Frances Broadfoot Claypoole during the 1930s and 1940s requesting data on branches of her family and various other New Bern, N.C., families. Also included are a few financial and legal papers and letters, 1766-1856, the earlier ones relating to business in Boston, Mass., and the later ones to land ownership and other business in eastern North Carolina.

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Processing Information

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, May 2010

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.

Diacritics and other special characters have been omitted from this finding aid to facilitate keyword searching in web browsers.

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