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Thomas Pollock Devereux

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John Devereux Papers

Devereux, John · 1712

This collection contains papers relating to the Pollock and Devereux families, among the largest landowners and slaveholders in North Carolina during the antebellum period. This small lot of documents includes some pape…

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