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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the William P. Hill Diary #3159-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Microfilm copy (filmed March 2005) available.

• Reel 1: Folder 1 of 1

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Received from Max Steele of Chapel Hill, N.C., in August 1955.

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• African American Baptists--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Baptists--Missions--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Baptists--South Carolina--Clergy--History--19th century.
• Baptists--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Circuit riders--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Diaries.
• Hill, William P., fl. 1846-1849.
• South Carolina--Description and travel.
• South Carolina--Religion--19th century.

William P. Hill was an itinerant Baptist preacher in South Carolina. The American Baptist Register for 1852 indicates that W. P. Hill was a resident of Greenwood, S.C., in 1851, and also that he was serving the Horeb Church in Abbeville (Edgefield Association).

Diary of William P. Hill, an itinerant Baptist preacher, recording his movement through South Carolina; places where he preached; his collections; comments on conferences, conventions, temperance societies, black congregations, and white congregations; problems such as competition from other sects; and occasional comments on national events. In the back of the book are about a dozen pages of Hill's accounts, 1846-1849, with the Domestic Mission Board.