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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the J.A. Pritchett Papers, #3968, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Barre Pritchett and Mrs. Raymond W. Staley of Fort Wayne, Ind., May 1973.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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• Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina.
• Baptists--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Chatham County (N.C.)--Religion.
• Chatham County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Chatham County (N.C.)--History.
• Clergy--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Greensboro (N.C.)--History.
• Greensboro (N.C.)--Social conditions.
• Matthews family.
• Pritchett, J. A. (John Aston), 1826-1909.
• Real property--North Carolina.
• Schools--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Teachers--North Carolina--History--19th century.

John Aston Pritchett (1826-1909) of Greensboro, N.C., was a cabinetmaker, undertaker, active member of the Republican Party, and justice of the peace and legislator, 1881 and 1887. His wife was Olivia B. Pritchett. They had one son, George Washington Pritchett (1869-1927), who was married to Annie Matthews of the Matthews family of Chatham and Randolph counties, N.C.

The collection includes miscellaneous deeds and financial and legal papers of John Aston Pritchett and of related members of the Matthews family of Chatham County, N.C. There are also four letters relating to teaching school in Greensboro, 1888-1889; two small memoranda books of a Baptist preacher in Chatham County, 1868-1874; and other items.

• Oversize paper (OP-3968/1)