Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

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 Charles Smallwood Papers #801-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Microfilm copy available.

• Reel 1: Entire collection

Acquisitions Information

Received before 1991 and from Margaret U. Griffin in February 1995 (Acc. 95058).

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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• Account books--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Bertie County (N.C.)--History.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Medicine--Practice--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Physicians--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Plantations--North Carolina.
• Smallwood, Charles, b. 1828.
• Woodville (N.C.)--History.

• Charles Smallwood Diary (#1905), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Charles Smallwood of Woodville, Bertie County, N.C., was a planter and physician.

The collection includes a memoir of the town of Woodville, N.C., in Bertie County, N.C., by physician and planter Charles Smallwood. Recollections concern local families, an academy, hunting, and other matters, 1830s-1890s, with stories of Revolutionary War and colonial incidents that the author gathered from tradition. Also included are three volumes: records of treatment of patients, 1853-1855; records of treatment of patients and general accounts, 1866-1895; and a general ledger listing dry goods purchased and other records, 1880-1881.