Webb Collection, PC.165

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Webb Collection, PC.165

Descriptive Summary

Title
Webb Collection
Call Number
PC.165
Creator
Webb family
Date
1835-1881, 1919-1940
Extent
0.400 cubic feet
Repository
State Archives of North Carolina

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Access Restrictions

This collection is available for research but certain use restrictions apply. See use restrictions note.

Use Restrictions

These materials are loaned to the State Archives and have not been accessioned into the Archives' custody. They are available to researchers and may be copied for reference purposes, but requests for publication, loans, or any other use, should be referred to the Registrar.

Collection Overview

Paper of the Webb family of Granville and Orange couties. Correspondence (1839-1881) includes letters from relatives in Tennessee, New York (1858), and North Carolina, with comments on President Polk's visit to UNC (1859), Methodist ministry in Guilford Co. and poorhouse there (1861), preaching to slaves (1861), Bingham School (1863), and travel to Lenoir and Boone (Dec., 1864). Civil War letters are from W. R. "Sawney" Webb, (15th Regt. NCT), A. S. Webb (23rd and 44th Regts. NCT), and Chaplain Richard S. Webb (44th Regt. NCT) with comments on destruction of goods at Manassas Junction (Mar., 1862), officer elections, casualties, hospitals, a revival, chaplains, peace movement, and condition of troops (Oct., 1863). Postwar letters are about schools in Tennessee and tutoring black children. Also in collection are printed sermons on the death of Mrs. Amy Webb, Ebenezer Church, Granville Co. (1835); pamphlet history of the Geneva Presbyterian Church, Granville Co., 1833-1933; a volume commemorating Granville Co. servicemen of WWI; OUR WEBB KIN OF DIXIE (Oxford, N. C., 1940); "Record of the Howard and Hunt Families" of Granville Co. See also P. C. 133.

Contents of the Collection

Container Count
1 Box

Subject Headings

  • Webb Family
  • Webb, W. R. "Sawney"
  • Webb, Amy
  • Howard family
  • Hunt Family
  • Webb, A. S.
  • Webb, Richard S.
  • Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849
  • Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 15th
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Bingham School
  • Ebenezer Church (Granville Co.)
  • Geneva Presbyterian Church (Granville Co.)
  • Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 44th
  • Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 23rd
  • Confederate States of America
  • OUR WEB KIN OF DIXIE
  • RECORD OF THE HOWARD AND HUNT FAMILIES
  • Schools
  • Military chaplains
  • Hospitals
  • Peace movements
  • Battle Casualties
  • Revivals
  • Presidents
  • Universities and colleges
  • Methodists
  • Evangelistic Work
  • Officer
  • Damages
  • Slaves
  • Preaching
  • Almshouses
  • Poverty
  • Tutors and tutoring
  • African Americans
  • Children
  • Education
  • Travel
  • Death
  • Eulogies
  • Memorials
  • Soldiers
  • Privates
  • Tennessee
  • New York
  • United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
  • Granville County (N.C.)
  • Orange County (N.C.)
  • Guilford County (N.C.)
  • Lenoir
  • Boone
  • Manassas Junction (Va.)
  • United States

    • Acquisitions Information

    Loan from W. J. Webb, Oxford, North Carolina: October 11, 1941 (letters); April 8, 1943 (Bound volume and pamphlets); November 9, 1943 (Bound volume and pamphlets).

    Processing Information

    Collection refoldered and reboxed on 1/11/2023 by Dominique Romero and Sarah Morrell. Folder and box identifiers retain the original numbering.