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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Norvell Winsboro Wilson Papers, #2957, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Sophie (Mrs. Wins F.) Wilson and her daughter Frances (Mrs. Clifford) Downey of Richmond, Va., 1953.

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• Baptist State Convention of North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Baptists--Louisiana--History--19th century.
• Baptists--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Canada--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Clergy--Louisiana--History--19th century.
• Clergy--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Clergy--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Families--Canada--Social life and customs.
• Families--Ohio--Social life and customs.
• Families--Virginia--Social life and customs.
• Hillsborough (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Indians of North America--Mixed descent--Social life and customs.
• Migration, Internal--United States--History--19th century.
• New Orleans (La.)--Social life and customs.
• Ohio--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.
• Pearman family.
• Racially mixed people--United States--Social life and customs.
• Richmond (Va.)--Social life and customs.
• Scott family.
• Scrapbooks.
• Virginia--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.
• Wilson, Norvell Winsboro, 1834-1878.

Norvell Winsboro Wilson (1834-1878) was a Baptist minister in Chapel Hill and Hillsborough, N.C., 1861-1867; Farmville and Richmond, Va., 1867-1875; and New Orleans, La., 1877-1878. Wilson was born in Franklin, Pendleton County, Va., and was ordained in the Baptist ministry around 1858. He married Sallie F. Betts of Black Walnut, Halifax County, Va., June 1861. Their children were Ernest, Knox, Wins, Lilie, Daisy, Kurtz, and Littell.

The collection includes the intermittent diary, 1862-1878, recording pastoral visits, Baptist conventions, social and community events, some war news, weather, and cash accounts of Norvell Winsboro Wilson. There is also a scrapbook of clippings relating to Wilson's career and writings, a biographical sketch of Wilson, and a few scattered Wilson family letters and papers. Also included in the collection is a group of miscellaneous family letters from members of the Scott and Pearman families of Virginia, 1842-1869. The letters have no apparent relationship to the rest of this collection, some of which are written by family members, possibly mulatto or part Indian, who had gone to Ohio and then Canada, describing their life and feelings to their relatives or friends in New Kent County, Va. Among the correspondents in these papers are Lucey Pearman, Elizabeth Porter, Peter Lennard, Eliza Pearman, Robert Ellett, Ann Taylor Geddy, William F. Pearman, and William Scott.