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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 Wilson Family Papers, #3714-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Letters were published as "The Wilson Letters, 1835-49," ed. Durward T. Stokes, Missouri Historical Review, July 1966, pp. 495-517.

Acquisitions Information

Loaned by Durward T. Stokes of Graham, N.C., May 1965.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection 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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• Agriculture--Missouri--History--19th century.
• Clay County (Mo.)--Economic conditions.
• Migration, Internal--United States--History--19th century.
• Missouri--Politics and government--To 1865.
• Mormons--Missouri--History--19th century.
• Presbyterian Church--Missouri--History--19th century.
• Wilson family.
• Wilson, Anderson.
• Wilson, Caleb.
• Wilson, Josiah.

Anderson Wilson, Caleb Wilson, and Josiah Wilson and their wives resided in Clay County, Mo. They were the sons of Thomas Wilson (1759-1829) of Orange County, N.C., and his wife Jane Wood Wilson.

The collection includes letters from Anderson, Caleb, and Josiah Wilson, and their wives in Clay County, Mo., to Wilson relatives in Orange County, N.C., describing farming, economic prospects, Presbyterian church affairs, and public matters in their area, including the influx of Mormons in 1836.