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Her husband was a pensioner.
State of North Carolina, County of Granville On this fourth day of February One thousand eight hundred and fifty six before the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions held within and for the County and...
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Don’t credit her.
NOTICE OF SEPARATION Whereas my wife, ELIZABETH CHAVERS, has deserted my bed and board without any just cause, I hereby forewarn all persons from crediting her on my account, as I am determined to...
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He was a soldier of the Revolution.
State of North Carolina Granville County On this 8th day of November 18 Hundred and Fortytwo (1842) personally appeared before James Cozart — one of the acting Magistrates and a member of the Court of...
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He had Negro blood in him.
SOLDIER OF 1776 WED CAROLINA COLORED GIRL White Soldier of General Cornwallis’s Army Drank Some of His Colored Sweetheart’s Blood Before Marriage in Order to be Able to Marry Her Legally. By JOSEPH...
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Free-Issue Death Certificates: PETTIFORD.
Fathia Thomas Pettiford. Died 10 November 1930, Oxford, Granville County. Resided Hillsboro Street. Colored. Widowed. Age 82. Born Franklin County to Thomas Pettiford and Fathia Anderson. Buried...
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William R. Pettiford.
Rev. William Reuben Pettiford, D.D. This popular and influential pastor well deserves mention for hard, persevering, laborious, and faithful work for God and his fellow man. Rev. W.R. Pettiford was...
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Horse-stealer sold for payment of fines.
Superior Court. – At the late September term of Orange Superior Court, Judge DICK presiding, there was an unsual amount of business on the criminal docket to be disposed of. There were three...
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He has a pass, but …
COMMITTED To the Jail of Rockingham County, North-Carolina, on the 5th inst. a mulatto fellow, who calls his name George Petteford, jr. about 24 years old, five feet high; and has in his possession a...
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James H. Harris.
Born a slave around 1830 in Granville County, James Harris was freed in 1848. After receiving his freedom, Harris was apprenticed to a carpenter and later opened his own business in Raleigh. Harris...
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They talked about their service and privations together.
State of North Carolina Wak County pearsonally appeared before us Nancey Whitehead widow of Burwell Whitehead Aged ninety years and made oath in Dew form of Law to following affidaved That She was...
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He has known James Harris since childhood.
State of North Carolina, Granville County } This day John Dickerson personaly appeard before me David A. Paschall an acting Justice of the peace for the said county and made oath that he has been...
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Joe the wagoner.
Ten Dollars Reward. Ran away from the subscriber, living in Granville county, on 19th October last, a likely Negro Man, named PLEASANT, aged about 27 years, dark complected, no particular marks...
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Where are they now?, no. 21.
Y.R. was born in circa 1930 in Oxford NC. She is descended from these free people of color: (1) Elizabeth Anderson [1825-??, Granville County] (2) Emaline Bookram [1827-1897, Granville County] (3)...
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