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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Roberts family papers, 1734-1944</title>
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  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>433</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, indentures, free papers, business and tax receipts, deeds, family records, genealogical papers, newspaper clippings, and other papers.  Includes military records relating to service in the Civil War and a contract (1832) to build the first African Methodist Episcopal Church in Indiana.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>In part, transcripts and photocopies. [S.l.].</note>
  <note>Family of free African Americans living in North Carolina and Indiana.  Principal family members represented in the papers are Jonathan Roberts, Willis Roberts, Hansel Roberts, Stephen Roberts, and Elijah Roberts.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roberts family</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>African Methodist Episcopal Church.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>African Americans</topic>
    <geographic>North Carolina</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>African Americans</topic>
    <geographic>Indiana</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Churches</topic>
    <geographic>Indiana</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Freedmen</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
    <topic>Participation, African American</topic>
  </subject>
  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Elijah Roberts papers</title>
    </titleInfo>
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roberts, Elijah,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1795-1848</namePart>
    </name>
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  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Hansel Roberts papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roberts, Hansel,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1795-1870</namePart>
    </name>
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  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Jonathan Roberts papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roberts, Jonathan,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1820</namePart>
    </name>
  </relatedItem>
  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Stephen Roberts papers</title>
    </titleInfo>
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roberts, Stephen,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1814-</namePart>
    </name>
  </relatedItem>
  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Willis Roberts papers</title>
    </titleInfo>
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roberts, Willis,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1782-1846</namePart>
    </name>
  </relatedItem>
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  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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