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John Kelly

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By John Kelly

John Kelly papers, 1747-1892.

Kelly, John, 1744-1826 · 1747

Papers of John Kelly (1744-1826) and his family, dated 1747 to 1892, 450 items in half a linear foot, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3378. Subjects include economic conditions in Orange County and the Saint Mary's District, Mary Holden Kelly, and internal migration in the nineteenth century South, with family social life in Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama.

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