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Hassell, Cushing Biggs, 1808-1880. Papers, 1814-1926.

Title: Papers, 1814-1926.

Correspondence and other materials relating principally to Cushing Biggs Hassell and his son, Sylvester Hassell. Topics include C.B. Hassell's mercantile business in Williamston; crop and commodity prices; the attack on Fort Fisher; prison conditions at Governor's Island, N.Y., and Fort Warren, Boston; Sylvester's search for a teaching position in 1868; sermons at, 1860-1861, and the reorganization of the University of North Carolina, 1875; the North Carolina state constitutional convention of 1875; the Democratic Party in North Carolina; the Primitive Baptist Church; and land sales in Surry and Yadkin counties, N.C. Correspondents include Kemp Plummer Battle, Sr., Asa Biggs, Ezra Cornell, William Ruffin Cox, Braxton Craven, Pleasant Daniel Gold, and Andrew Dousa Hepburn.

ArchivalResource: 259 items.

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Williamston Academy (Martin County, N.C.). Williamston Academy minutes, 1817-1890 [microfilm manuscript].

Title: Williamston Academy minutes, 1817-1890 [microfilm manuscript].

Minutes, 1817-1890, of the Board of Trustees of the Williamston Academy (Martin County, N.C.), with no entries for 1825-1827, 1829-1835, and 1862-1863. These brief records of meetings record the Board's discussion and action as it hired teachers, set tuititon, and determined the number of pupils to be admitted. Also included are a list of those subscribing to the fund to construct a building, regulations for students, and occasional lists of students. Board members whose names are frequently mentioned include Cushing B. Hassell, Joseph Biggs, Asa Biggs, Luman Whittlesley, Edward Yellowley, Samuel Hyman, William J. Ellison, William Watts, D. W. Bagley, Joseph D. Biggs, Lawrence Johnson, James E. Moore, and John D. Biggs. Teachers before the Civil War included Asa Matthews in the 1840s, his son, Samuel W. Matthews, in the 1850s, and Henry L. Chase, 1860- 1861. After the Civil War, D. G. Gillespie and Sylvester Hassell were among the teachers.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (182 p.).

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Hassell, Sylvester, 1842-1928. Sylvester S. Hassell papers, 1801-1928.

Title: Sylvester S. Hassell papers, 1801-1928.

Correspondence, volumes, and other items, chiefly 1910-1927, relating to matters of the Primitive Baptist Church in North Carolina and to the Gospel Messenger of which Hassell was editor. Included is an 1867 letter from David Lowry Swain, North Carolina governor and president of the University of North Carolina. Volumes include Hassell's diaries, 1870- 1928; accounts and subscription lists for the Gospel Messenger; and records of the Wilson Collegiate Institute and the Williamston Academy with which Hasselll was involved. There are also some materials relating to Cushing Biggs Hassell, including notes for an autobiography, ca. 1840; antebellum account books and inventories from his time as a merchant at Williamston and other places in eastern North Carolina; and a record book of his tenure as Martin County, N.C., court clerk, 1839-1850.

ArchivalResource: ca. 350 items (5.5 linear ft.)

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Sylvester S. Hassell Papers, ., 1801-1928

Title: Sylvester S. Hassell Papers, . 1801-1928

Sylvester Hassell, son of Cushing Biggs Hassell (1808-1880) and Mary Davis Hassell, was born in 1842 in Williamston, N.C. His father was a Baptist preacher and merchant in Williamston, Halifax, and Plymouth, N.C. Sylvester taught school at several academies; he was also a Primitive Baptist preacher. In 1895, he bought the Gospel Messenger, a monthly religious publication, and served as its editor until his death in 1928. Correspondence, volumes, and other items, chiefly 1910-1927, relating to matters of the Primitive Baptist Church in North Carolina and to the Gospel Messenger of which Hassell was editor. Included is an 1867 letter from David Lowry Swain, North Carolina governor and president of the University of North Carolina. Volumes include Hassell's diaries, 1870- 1928; accounts and subscription lists for the Gospel Messenger; and records of the Wilson Collegiate Institute and the Williamston Academy with which Hasselll was involved. There are also some materials relating to Cushing Biggs Hassell, including notes for an autobiography, circa 1840; antebellum account books and inventories from his time as a merchant at Williamston and other places in eastern North Carolina; and a record book of his tenure as Martin County, N.C., court clerk, 1839-1850.

ArchivalResource: 350; 5.5

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