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Collection: MARY JEFFREYS ROGERS COLLECTION
Franklin and Wake Counties
1782-1939, 1965
p.c. 1232.1-1232.2
Physical Description: c. 170 items; correspondence, pamphlets, brochures,
receipts, notes, patents, deeds, memorandum books, summons, speeches,
newspaper clippings, invitations, telegram, lists.
Acquisition: From donor file; September 28. 1965. c. 143 items and Novem¬
ber 3. 1967. 28 items pertaining to the Jeffreys and Wiggins family,
presented by Mrs. Mary Jeffreys Rogers, daughter of William E. Jeffreys and
Annie Wiggins, >
Description: The Jeffreys family came to North Carolina sometime after 1716
when Simeon Jeffreys, a civil engineer or surveyor in Williamsburg, Virginia,
moved to Bertie County where he died in His son Osborne, surveyor and
lawyer, died 1793 in Franklin County leaving c. 18,000 acres, with son
William inheriting 2,500 acres in Franklin and Wake counties.
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The collection contains seven (7) land papers (1782-1841), including
land grants to William (1782) on the Neuse River in Wake County and deeds
of gift from William to son Robert N. (1799) in Wake County and from
William (Jr.) to son William A. (l84l) in Franklin County.
Robert N. Jeffreys. Sr. and Gilly Hunter. 6 items (1801-1862), in¬
cluding a plat of 1653 acres in Wake County (l80l) and receipted tax bill
($1.00) for a two-wheeled carriage, Raleigh (1816).
Robert N. Jeffreys. Jr. and Amelia Martin High, 32 items (1829-1858);
memorandum book (1829) of cures and remedies and entries of family and
slave births and deaths. Of unusual interest are several letters from
Jeffreys, laws, and Hunters of Wake County who migrated to Alabama, Missi¬
ssippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas to establish cotton plantations (1844-1850). •
There is a description of the death of Robert N. who died in Arkansas while
on an exploratory trip from Raleigh to Texas, 1850. •
Dr. Jacob Hunter Jeffreys. Raleigh physician, 21 items (1833-1847);
descriptions of his journey to medical school in Philadelphia (c.
1833)»
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a visit to his brothers in Alabama
(1837)»
as well as personal and pro¬
fessional accounts.
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