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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Whitmel Hill Papers, #3099-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Charles W. Jacocks of Bronwood, Ga., 1955

Transferred from David Lowry Swain Papers, #706, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, August 1960.

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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• Bertie County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
• Great Britain--Foreign relations--United States.
• Hill, Whitmel, 1743-1797.
• Plantation owners--North Carolina--Bertie County.
• United States--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

Whitmel Hill (1743-1797) of Bertie County, N.C., was a planter, merchant, state legislator, and perhaps a member of the Continental Congress. He was prominent in early Revolutionary movements and served as a colonel in the Revolutionary War. He married Winifred Blount of Edenton, N.C., and owned property in Bertie, Martin, and Halifax counties, N.C.

The collection includes an unsigned letter, circa 1795, presumably from Whitmel Hill to "House of Representatives of the United States," arguing against the expediency of war with Great Britain; a contemporary manuscript copy of Hill's will, 1 September 1798, itemizing his property; and a newspaper clipping concerning Whitmel Hill, 1935.