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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Craven and Jones Counties (N.C.) Legal Papers #5311-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. J. Carlyle Sitterson of Chapel Hill, N.C., in 2006 (Acc. 100579).

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• Anderson family.
• Clark family.
• Craven County (N.C.)--History.
• Crook family.
• Franklin family.
• Gilbert family.
• Griffin family.
• Jones County (N.C.)--History.
• Jones family.
• Mitchell family.
• Pickren family.
• Real property--North Carolina--History--18th century.
• Real property--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Richardson family.

Members of the Pickren, Gilbert, Crook, Mitchell, Franklin, Richardson, Jones, Anderson, Clark, and Griffin families were resident in Craven and Jones counties, N.C., in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The collection consists of deeds, indentures, and other legal papers, 1782-1850, relating to members of the Pickren, Gilbert, Crook, Mitchell, Franklin, Richardson, Jones, Anderson, Clark, Griffin, and other families, chiefly resident in Craven County, N.C., and Jones County, N.C. Most of the items relate to real estate or other property transactions.