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Robert Potter

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Address, &c. to the people of Granville County

1832 · Faustus Castle, printer

Robert Potter's address to the people of Granville County, signed from the prison in Hillsborough in 1832 and printed there by Faustus Castle. Potter, a former congressman from Granville, was serving a sentence in Orange County for a notorious assault, and the pamphlet is his appeal to his former constituents. Topics include North Carolina prisoners and biography and the 1832 Hillsborough imprint.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Potter, Robert, 1799?-1842.

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Records of the time

State Archives catalog: 22 collections naming Robert PotterState Archives of North Carolina Collection descriptions for manuscripts, county records, and state records held by the State Archives of North Carolina
DigitalNC newspapers: 70 Orange County pages naming Robert Potter Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers

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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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