Inventory of the Henry William Faison Papers, 1770-1937
Collection Number 3789
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Faison, Henry William, 1823-1885.
- Title
- Henry William Faison Papers, 1770-1937.
- Call Number
- 3789
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 2,130 items (2.0 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- Additional Descriptive Resources
- A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Henry William Faison Papers, #3789, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- 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 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.
Biographical Note
Physician and cotton farmer of Duplin County, N.C.
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Chiefly cotton accounts of Henry W. Faison with merchants in Wilmington, N.C., and bills, receipts and other business items, as well as estate papers, of Faison and his Faison, Williams, Hicks, and other relatives in Duplin and Sampson counties, N.C. There are a few items relating to slaves and a few concerning Faison's medical practice. 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.