This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_919341333_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hello Again, I live in Maryland and I can not travel at this time. If anyone can go to the UNC to help me obtain this information it would be greatly appreciated. I will pay for any copying and postage fees. This info will be included within my grandmother's family history book. This book will be presented to her on her 96th birthday on March21, 1999. The info below was sent to me to make the search easier. I am asking for someone's help that might have access to this location. Your help is greatly needed. I can not stress how much your help is needed. You can email me for my address. "John Devereux Papers are at the Universtiy of NC. - Louis Round Wilson Library. Collection #2149m 1791-1890. There is quite a bit of information as well as a list of slaves included in this collection. " Thank you in advance. Brenda In a message dated 2/18/99 3:12:28 AM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << Hello, On Sunday, March 21, 1999 my grandmother, Lena Gray Robinson, will celebrate her 96th birthday in Rocky Mount, NC. We have been doing this since 1990. We all celebrate her birthday by going with her to her church and afterward we all go out to dinner. Why am I telling you this? My Granny's grandmother (Tempe), Tempe's sisters, Tempe's brothers and great grandparents (Hopey and Alston) were slaves on one or two of the Devereux Plantations. I would like to know more about my ancestors. I would like to honor them in print and my Granny as a living legacy on her birthday. I would like to present my Granny with her family's history. This will become a treasure and an heirloom like the quilts she use to make us. Could you please help me present my Granny with her Family History Book for her birthday? Any info you are able to give me would be most appreciated. All info will be included with her book. Please help me to get on the right research track ASAP. I am looking for these slaves: Alston Hopey Mariah Nancy Tempe* Cloe Alfred Cato Mary in Bertie / Halifax. NC. They were slave of John Devereux. When he died they were willed to other family members. Thank you in advance for all your help. Brenda Jackson (Surname: Devereux, Whitley, Gray, Robinson, Barnes, Vick, Cabbagestalk, Roundtree) Title: Papers, 1776-1936; (bulk 1839-1900) [manuscript]. Author: Devereux family. Subject: Confederate States of America. Army --Military life. Confederate States of America. Army --Officers. Devereux, John. Devereux, John, 1819-1893. Devereux, Margaret Mordecai, 1824-1910. Devereux, Sarah Elizabeth. Devereux, Thomas Pollock, 1793-1869. Lane family. Maitland, Robert L. Mordecai family. Subject: Plantations --North Carolina. Plantations --Records. Real property --North Carolina. Roanoke River (Va. and N.C.). Slave records --North Carolina. Slavery --North Carolina. Material: 458 items. Note: Correspondence of a Raleigh, N.C., family, owners of plantations in the Roanoke River area. Chief correspondents in the collection are Thomas Pollock Devereux, his sister-in-law Sarah Elizabeth Devereux, his son John Devereux, daughter-in-law Margaret Mordecai Devereux, and Robert L. Maitland of New York, a business associate. A few letters relate to the Civil War careers of John Devereux, chief quartermaster of North Carolina, and his son, Thomas Pollock Devereux, and describe camp life. Postwar papers concern land sales, lawsuits over estates, and involvement in the French spoliation claims. There are also comments on slaves and manumission, Dare County, lumbering, the Lane and Mordecai families, cranberry culture, and land surveys. There is also a plantation account book, 1842-1863, of John Devereux, relating to Barrow, Montrose, and Runiroi plantations and giving extensive lists of slaves with names, dates of birth, purchase, or death. Purchase 1971 System ID No: ADI-4603 LOCATION: Special Collections Library -- CALL NUMBER: x items 1-458 c.1 NonCirculating >> --part0_919341333_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-ya05.mx.aol.com (rly-ya05.mail.aol.com [172.18.144.197]) by air-ya03.mx.aol.com (v56.26) with SMTP; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 06:12:28 -0500 Received: from Archive.MsState.Edu (Archive.MsState.Edu [130.18.80.18]) by rly-ya05.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id GAA28399; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 06:12:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost ([email protected]); by Archive.MsState.Edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1/MsState-Archive/1.9) with SMTP; id FAA12145; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 05:11:36 -0600 (CST) Received: by archive.msstate.edu (bulk_mailer v1.8); Thu, 18 Feb 1999 05:11:34 -0600 Received: (from [email protected]); by Archive.MsState.Edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1/MsState-Archive/1.9); id FAA12081 for afrigeneasOc2kzacrc; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 05:11:30 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 05:11:30 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <[email protected]> From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Devereux Slave Sender: [email protected] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hello, On Sunday, March 21, 1999 my grandmother, Lena Gray Robinson, will celebrate her 96th birthday in Rocky Mount, NC. We have been doing this since 1990. We all celebrate her birthday by going with her to her church and afterward we all go out to dinner. Why am I telling you this? My Granny's grandmother (Tempe), Tempe's sisters, Tempe's brothers and great grandparents (Hopey and Alston) were slaves on one or two of the Devereux Plantations. I would like to know more about my ancestors. I would like to honor them in print and my Granny as a living legacy on her birthday. I would like to present my Granny with her family's history. This will become a treasure and an heirloom like the quilts she use to make us. Could you please help me present my Granny with her Family History Book for her birthday? Any info you are able to give me would be most appreciated. All info will be included with her book. Please help me to get on the right research track ASAP. I am looking for these slaves: Alston Hopey Mariah Nancy Tempe* Cloe Alfred Cato Mary in Bertie / Halifax. NC. They were slave of John Devereux. When he died they were willed to other family members. Thank you in advance for all your help. Brenda Jackson (Surname: Devereux, Whitley, Gray, Robinson, Barnes, Vick, Cabbagestalk, Roundtree) Title: Papers, 1776-1936; (bulk 1839-1900) [manuscript]. Author: Devereux family. Subject: Confederate States of America. Army --Military life. Confederate States of America. Army --Officers. Devereux, John. Devereux, John, 1819-1893. Devereux, Margaret Mordecai, 1824-1910. Devereux, Sarah Elizabeth. Devereux, Thomas Pollock, 1793-1869. Lane family. Maitland, Robert L. Mordecai family. Subject: Plantations --North Carolina. Plantations --Records. Real property --North Carolina. Roanoke River (Va. and N.C.). Slave records --North Carolina. Slavery --North Carolina. Material: 458 items. Note: Correspondence of a Raleigh, N.C., family, owners of plantations in the Roanoke River area. Chief correspondents in the collection are Thomas Pollock Devereux, his sister-in-law Sarah Elizabeth Devereux, his son John Devereux, daughter-in-law Margaret Mordecai Devereux, and Robert L. Maitland of New York, a business associate. A few letters relate to the Civil War careers of John Devereux, chief quartermaster of North Carolina, and his son, Thomas Pollock Devereux, and describe camp life. Postwar papers concern land sales, lawsuits over estates, and involvement in the French spoliation claims. There are also comments on slaves and manumission, Dare County, lumbering, the Lane and Mordecai families, cranberry culture, and land surveys. There is also a plantation account book, 1842-1863, of John Devereux, relating to Barrow, Montrose, and Runiroi plantations and giving extensive lists of slaves with names, dates of birth, purchase, or death. 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