Restrictions to Access

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 Archibald Henderson Papers Relating to Family History, #3650, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift 1963

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.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Bailey family.
• Brownrigg family.
• Cain family.
• College teachers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Ferrand family.
• Henderson family.
• Henderson, Archibald, 1877-1963.
• Henderson, John S. (John Steele), 1846-1916.
• Henderson, Richard, 1735-1785.
• Kentucky--Genealogy.
• North Carolina--Genealogy.
• North Carolina--History.
• Rowan County (N.C.)--Genealogy.
• Steele, John, 1764-1815.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--History--20th century.

Other Henderson family correspondence will be found in SHC #327 and manuscripts of the other related families in collections #39, #124, #327, #689, #2226, and #3876. Henderson's George Bernard Shaw Papers are in collection #3516; other papers of Henderson are in collection #3712. Also, the North Carolina Collection holds about 600 Henderson items related to Daniel Boone, including pictures, notes, copies of manuscripts, and Henderson's correspondence, 1891-1952, about gathering information about Boone.

Papers of Henderson, a University of North Carolina professor of mathematics and author, and materials collected by him, relating to his family history and his biographical and historical writing about individual ancestors and numerous related North Carolina historical topics. Materials include typescripts, drafts of Henderson's writings, copies of relevant 18th- and 19th-century manuscripts, notes, compilations, clippings, photographs, and other data, as well as pertinent correspondence.

Also included are similar papers of his father, John Steele Henderson of Rowan County, N.C., and of Archibald's two sisters, concerning the same subjects. Included are a series on the family and descendants of Richard Henderson (1734-1785) of North Carolina and Kentucky; a series concerning Brownrigg, Bailey, Cain, and allied families of North Carolina and Mississippi; and a John Steele (1764-1815) and Ferrand family series.