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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 Claiborne T. Smith Papers, #3088, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gifts 1955-1998

Additional Descriptive Resources

The original finding aid 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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• African Americans--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Baker family.
• Bertie County (N.C.)--Genealogy.
• Brunswick County (Va.)--Genealogy.
• Chowan County (N.C.)--Genealogy.
• Claiborne family.
• Edgecombe County (N.C.)--Genealogy.
• Evans family.
• Gates County (N.C.)--Genealogy.
• Genealogists--North Carolina--Correspondence.
• Halifax County (N.C.)--Genealogy.
• Isle of Wight County (Va.)--Genealogy.
• Landscape painters--North Carolina.
• Nansemond County (Va.)--Genealogy.
• Norfleet family.
• North Carolina--Genealogy.
• Northampton County (N.C.)--Genealogy.
• Perquimans County (N.C.)--Genealogy.
• Pitt County (N.C.)--Genealogy.
• Portrait painters--North Carolina.
• Scotland Neck (N.C.)--History.
• Smith family.
• Smith, Claiborne T.
• Smith, Claiborne T., 1893-1989.
• Southampton County (Va.)--Genealogy.
• Speight, Francis, 1896-
• Speight, Sarah Blakeslee, 1912-
• Surry County (Va.)--Genealogy.
• Sussex County (Va.)--Genealogy.
• Virginia--Genealogy.
• Women artists--North Carolina.
• Women painters--North Carolina.

The collection includes genealogical correspondence and data compiled by Claiborne T. Smith Jr. of Ardmore, Pa., relating to the Claiborne, Smith, Norfleet, Baker, Evans, and allied families in Perquimans, Gates, Chowan, Bertie, Northampton, Halifax, Edgecombe, and Pitt counties, N.C., and Brunswick, Sussex, Surry, Southampton, Isle of Wight, and Nansemond counties, Va. Also included are letters to Smith from his father, Claiborne T. Smith (1893-1989), physician of Rocky Mount, N.C., including one about African Americans in northeastern North Carolina in the early 20th century; from landscape painter Francis Speight (1896-1989) of Greenville, N.C.; from Speight's widow, Sarah Blakeslee Speight (1912- ), landscape and portrait painter of Rocky Mount, N.C.; and historical material relating to Scotland Neck, N.C.