Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Watson and Nicholson Family Papers, #756-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Prior to 1940

Additional Descriptive Resources

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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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• Brockport (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Cleveland (Ohio)--Social life and customs.
• Houston (Tex.)--Social life and customs.
• Indian agents--Kansas--History--19th century.
• Indiana--Social life and customs.
• Kansas--Social life and customs.
• New Canaan (Conn.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Nicholson family.
• Nicholson, William, fl. 1870.
• North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Pasadena (Calif.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Quakers--United States--History--19th century.
• Society of Friends--Doctrines--History--19th century.
• South Dakota--Social life and customs.
• Watson family.
• Watson, Henry, fl. 1840-1850.
• Watson, John, fl. 1840-1850.
• Watson, Julia, fl. 1850.
• Watson, Mary Ann, fl. 1840-1850.
• Watson, William, fl. 1840-1850.
• Women--Education--Connecticut--History--19th century.

The collection includes family correspondence, chiefly 1840-1850, of John Watson of Brockport, N.Y., New Canaan, Conn., Cleveland, Ohio, and Houston, Tex., with members of his family, particularly his father, William A. Watson of Brockport, his wife, Mary Ann Watson, of New Canaan, his daughter, Julia E. Watson, while she was attending school at West Winsted, Conn., in the early 1850s, and Henry Watson; and correspondence and papers of the Nicholson family of Pasadena, Calif., North Carolina, Indiana, South Dakota, and Kansas, including some Quaker religious writings of William Nicholson and correspondence relating to his activities as a federal Indian agent in Kansas in the 1870s.