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W. R. (William Rhodes) Capehart

1836–1907 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Gray family papers, 1722-1879 (bulk 1846-1879).

Gray family · 1722

Gray family papers, roughly 650 items in a linear foot and a half running from 1722 to 1879 and heaviest after 1846, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. Account books sit among the correspondence. Topics include lawyers in eighteenth and nineteenth century North Carolina, fisheries, family social life, and students at the Bingham School in Orange County and at Wesleyan Female College in Murfreesboro.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Capehart, W. R. (William Rhodes), 1836-1907.

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Records of the time

State Archives catalog: 2 collections naming William CapehartState Archives of North Carolina Collection descriptions for manuscripts, county records, and state records held by the State Archives of North Carolina

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Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
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