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Abner Wentworth Clopton

1784–1833 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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A memoir of Abner W. Clopton, A.M. : pastor of Baptist churches in Charlotte County, Virginia

Jeter, Jeremiah Bell, 1802-1880 · 1837 · Yale & Wyatt

Jeremiah Bell Jeter's 1837 memoir of Abner Wentworth Clopton, 1784 to 1833, a pastor of Baptist churches in Charlotte County, Virginia. The memoir concerns Clopton's student years at the University of North Carolina and his connections to Chapel Hill and Milton, North Carolina, within the state's nineteenth century religious life. 283 pages, printed at Richmond.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Clopton, Abner Wentworth, 1784-1833.

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1819 The university closes its grammar school and makes Hillsborough Academy its preparatory school When Abner W. Clopton gave up the grammar school the university dropped it. Caldwell arranged for Hillsborough Academy, under John Witherspoon with John Rogers teaching, to prepare boys for the university, whose faculty could attend its examinations and admit its top pupils on certificate. People: Abner Wentworth Clopton, John Knox Witherspoon, Joseph CaldwellDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 283

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