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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Sacket and Snider Family Papers, #4200-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased from Terry Alford of Springfield, Va., January 1980.

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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• Illegitimacy--United States--History--19th century.
• Illegitimate children--Pennsylvania--History--19th century.
• Parent and child (Law)--United States--History--19th century.
• Sacket family.
• Sacket, Porter, d. 1837.
• Snider family.
• Snider, Margaret E., d. 1844.
• Unmarried fathers--Mississippi--History--19th century.
• Unmarried mothers--Pennsylvania--History--19th century.

Porter Sacket (died 1837) of Natchez, Miss., apparently fathered a child out of wedlock in 1836 with Margaret E. Snider (died 1844).

The collection includes correspondence and financial and legal papers relating to the Snider family of Chambersburg, Pa., and to Porter Sacket. The principal focus of this material is the child, apparently fathered by Sackett, born out of wedlock in 1836 to Margaret E. Snider.