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No restrictions. Open for research.

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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 Sparkman Family Papers #2791, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Lent for microfilming by Mrs. A. F. Witte of Mount Pleasant, S.C., in 1944.

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.

Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, March 1996

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.

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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Agriculture--Societies, etc.--South Carolina--History.
• Families--South Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Heriot, Edward Thomas, 1793-1854.
• Medicine--Practice--South Carolina--History.
• Physicians--South Carolina.
• Plantations--South Carolina.
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--South Carolina.
• Rice--South Carolina--History.
• South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Sparkman family.
• Sparkman, John A.

• James Richie Sparkman Books (#2732).

Microfilm of papers of Sparkman family members, especially James A. Sparkman, physician and rice planter of Georgetown District, S.C. Correspondence, legal and financial documents, and writings relate to Sparkman's patients and colleagues; the settlement of the estate of Sparkman's father-in-law, Edward Thomas Heriot; plantation business; agricultural societies; military occupation during the Civil War; and problems during Recontruction.