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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 New England Papers, #2833-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Transferred from the North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, June 1952.

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.

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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• Belcher, Jonathan, 1682-1757.
• Bellingham, Richard, 1592?-1672.
• Bollan, William, d. 1776.
• Dartmouth College--Presidents.
• Dudley, Joseph, 1647-1720.
• Endecott, John, 1588?-1665.
• Governors--Massachusetts--History--17th century.
• Governors--Massachusetts--History--18th century.
• Johnson, William, 1715-1774.
• Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
• New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
• Sermons, American--New England.
• Unmarried mothers--Massachusetts--History--17th century.
• Wheelock, Eleazar, 1711-1779.
• Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--Massachusetts--History--17th century.

The collection includes collected, unrelated papers from colonial New England, including letters from governors John Endecott, 1649, Joseph Dudley, 1710, and Jonathan Belcher, 1733-1734, of Massachusetts; Cotton Mather, 1691; William Bollan, 1761; and President Eleazar Wheelock of Dartmouth, 1773, introducing two Native Americans to Sir William Johnson; a report of an examination, circa 1640-1670, of Hester [Lugge?] by Governor Richard Bellingham of Massachusetts, in which the accused confessed that she was pregnant out of wedlock; and a sermon in shorthand, 1727.