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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Henry W. Faison Papers, #3789, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Anna Pierce (Mrs. Russell H.) Stafford of Washington, D.C., November 1967.

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A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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• Augusta Female Seminary (Staunton, Va.)--Students--History--19th century.
• College students--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• College students--Virginia--Social life and customs.
• Cotton trade--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Duplin County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Estates (Law)--North Carolina.
• Faison family.
• Faison, Henry W. (Henry William), 1823-1885.
• Faison, Winifred.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Hicks family.
• Hill family.
• Hill, Buckner Lanier, 1800-1860.
• Illegitimacy--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Physicians--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Plantation owners--North Carolina.
• Sampson County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Slavery--North Carolina.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--History--19th century.
• University of Virginia--Students--History--19th century.
• Williams family.
• Wilmington (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Women--North Carolina--Social life and customs.

Henry William Faison (1823-1885) was a physician and cotton farmer of Duplin County, N.C. He married Martha W. Hicks (1832-1900) in 1848 and they had at least nine children including Sallie, Winifred M. (died 1937), Rowland, Henry, Mollie, John M., Percy, and James.

The collection is chiefly business papers Henry William Faison relating to his medical practice and cotton plantation and farm including extensive cotton accounts with merchants in Wilmington, N.C., bills and receipts, and correspondence. There are also wills, estate papers, indentures, and other legal and financial documents of Henry William Faison and his Faison, Williams, Hicks, and other relatives in Duplin and Sampson counties, N.C. Also included are Faison family letters and personal correspondence of members of the Faison family, especially of Winifred Faison, 1892-1937. Many of the family letters concern school and college experiences in the 1870s and 1880s at the University of North Carolina, the University of Virginia, Augusta Female Seminary in Staunton, Va., and other schools. In addition, there is a series of papers, 1809-1884, relating to Buckner Lanier Hill (1800-1860) of Duplin County and his relatives; the connection of Hill to the Faisons is not clear. These papers consist chiefly of financial and legal items, especially estate papers; some relate to illegitimacy.