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Robert Wilson Harris

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Charles Wilson Harris papers, 1765-1924

Harris, Charles Wilson, 1771-1804 · 1765

Charles Wilson Harris, 1771 to 1804, is the figure behind papers dated 1765 to 1924. The papers concern his eighteenth century faculty service at Chapel Hill and later legal career, along with Charles and Robert Wilson Harris, Presbyterians and Poplar Tent Church in Cabarrus County, and the history of Concord and Chapel Hill. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 315.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Harris, Robert Wilson, 1779-1812.

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