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Thomas 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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the State Archives of NC record: Devereux, Thomas Pollock, 1845-1913.

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