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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Cushing Biggs Hassell Papers #810, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance

Received from Frank S. Hassell of Wilson, N.C., in August 1943 and Calvin Hassell of Saint Petersburg, Fla., in July 1952.

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• African American Baptists--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• African Americans--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Autobiographies--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Baptismal records--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• County courts--North Carolina--Martin County--History--19th century.
• Court records--North Carolina--Martin County--History--19th century.
• Freedmen--Religious life--North Carolina.
• Hassell, Cushing Biggs, 1808-1880.
• Martin County (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Primitive Baptists (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Primitive Baptists--Clergy--Appointment, call, and election.
• Primitive Baptists--Clergy--Biography.
• Sermons, American--North Carolina.
• Slaves--Religious life--North Carolina.

• Sylvester Hassell Papers (#321), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Cushing Biggs Hassell Papers in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.

Cushing Biggs Hassell (1808-1880) was a merchant and Primitive Baptist clergyman of Williamston, N.C.

Papers of Cushing Biggs Hassell include his diary, 1840-1880; autobiography up to 1840; letter book, 1841-1848; list of persons ordained and baptized into the Primitive Baptist Church, including African Americans, 1844-1880, both slaves and freedmen; equity minute book as clerk of Martin County, N.C., court, 1848-1862; texts for sermons; list of donations; and other papers.