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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.

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Background context: Potter, Robert NCpedia
Read contemporary evidence: State Archives catalog: 22 collections naming Robert Potter State Archives of North Carolina Collection descriptions for manuscripts, county records, and state records held by the State Archives of North Carolina
Read contemporary evidence: DigitalNC newspapers: 70 Orange County pages naming Robert Potter DigitalNC Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
Search beyond the index: NC LIVE: prepared search for Robert Potter 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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