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Frances (Pollock) Devereux

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John Devereux Papers

Devereux, John · 1712

Papers of the Pollock and Devereux families, 1712 to 1892, among the largest landowners and enslavers in antebellum North Carolina. The small lot includes Pollock papers from before and after the two families joined, plantation and farm management papers, lists of enslaved people, and Confederate supply and quartermaster material. Orange County enters through the Haw Fields.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the State Archives of NC record: Devereux, Frances (Pollock), 1771-1849.

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December 30, 1844 Frances Devereux deeds Primus to Dr. Edmund Strudwick Five months after her husband died, Frances Devereux of Raleigh deeded Primus to Dr. Edmund Strudwick of Hillsborough. Primus later drove and gardened at the Burwell School and, after emancipation, worked at the Nash and Kollock School as Primus Smith. People: Edmund Strudwick, Frances (Pollock) DevereuxBurwell School Historic Site Task Force: Antebellum Hillsborough, Slavery, and Enslaved and Free People of Color who Worked at the Burwell School, 1837-1857 (2019), p. 19

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Burwell School Schools and academies · Hillsborough · 1 event here
Nash and Kollock School Schools and academies · Hillsborough · 1 event here

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Edmund Strudwick 1 entry: Frances Devereux deeds Primus to Dr. Edmund Strudwick (December 30, 1844)

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Read contemporary evidence: State Archives catalog: 1 collection naming Frances (Pollock) Devereux State Archives of North Carolina Collection descriptions for manuscripts, county records, and state records held by the State Archives of North Carolina
Search beyond the index: NC LIVE: prepared search for Frances (Pollock) Devereux NC LIVE An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
Ask locally: Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) 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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