Collection:
P.C
173
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PAPERS '
bialeigh, Horth Carolina
1705 (1655-1665) 1676; ,e\'>
Physical Description: Deeds, let-tors, petitions, sales of slaves, and
typescript, Approximately 29 Items, 1 box.
Acquisition: Gift, of Mrs, S. W, Sparger,
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Cool Pond Head,
Durham, Worth Carolina,
Kerch 13, 19b2, April 13, 1 9U2, February 3, 19U7, January 0,
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Description:
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Bledsoe was bom in Franklin County, North Carolina
(1622) 'tab moved to Wake County in 16-39. Ho was a prominent lawyer
and politically active, serving in the House of Coraonns (1056) and
in tho Ser.o to (1656, 1360), and was chairman cf the board cf the State
Asylum at 'Kalelgh,
The typed material consists of three «ills: George
Bledsoe, Northampton County, Virginia , 1705 i Thomae Smith, Halifax
County, North Carolina, 179u; and Mies Smith, Halifax County, Worth
Carolina, 1839. Other typed material arc accounts of the death of a
Bledsoe in 1905 and of his wife end children,
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«nu script material, aside from deeds and sales of
slaves, relates chiefly to the Civil War and irmediately following,
including! statements regarding slave labor on
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sleigh and Wilmington
fortifications mid in General John
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ten' s arnyj Bled.-oe’ s pardon from
President Johnson ; a statement of hie right to vote by William Vi,
Holden;
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circular announcing Governor Worth’s candidacy In 1366;
snd a petition from the citizens of Barton Creek to Koaes Bledsoe
asking him to run for the state aenete (1S66),
