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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 E. F. Rockwell Papers, #2271-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased from C. C. Williamson, August 1940.

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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• Autograph albums--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Clergy--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Commonplace-books--History--19th century.
• Iredell County (N.C.)--History.
• Presbyterian Church--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Rockwell, E. F. (Elijah Frink), 1809-1888.
• Rockwell, Margarette McNeil.
• Rowan County (N.C.)--History.

E. F. (Elijah Frink) Rockwell (1809-1888) was a Presbyterian minister married to Margarette K. McNeill.

The collection includes scattered papers concerning business and Presbyterian church and historical matters in Rowan and Iredell counties, N.C. Items include an account of John Nesbitt with William Stephen, 1796; an account of produce sales, 1799; a license for a still signed by William Polk, 1801; and a fragment of a letter of complaint addressed to the General Assembly, 1850. There are also some historical and genealogical items related to Peter S. Ney, John Nesbitt, the Rockwell family, and other topics. Also two volumes, a commonplace book and an autograph book, 1837-1839, of Margarette K. McNeil.