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[Identification of item], in the Meares and DeRosset Family #499, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• African Americans--Suffrage--North Carolina.
• Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
• De Rosset, A. J. (Armand John), 1807-1897.
• DeRosset family.
• Diaries.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Family--South Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Lawyers--North Carolina--History.
• Meares, Gaston, 1821-1862.
• Meares, Kate de Rosset, b. 1830.
• Mears family.
• Merchants--North Carolina--History.
• Wilmington (N.C.)--Commerce.
• Wilmington (N.C.)--Social life and customs.

• See also DeRosset Family papers (#214); Moses Ashley Curtis papers (#199); Alfred Moore Waddell papers (#743); Langdon, Young, and Meares Family papers (#1558) in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Family, business, and social correspondence and business papers of the Meares and DeRosset families of Wilmington, N.C. Papers are of Gaston Meares, lawyer, businessman, and Confederate colonel; his wife, Katherine Douglass Meares; their children at Columbia, S.C., and other places; Katherine Meares's father, Armand John DeRosset, a Wilmington physician and merchant.

Volumes are chiefly miscellaneous accounts and a diary with entries on church and family affairs and the Civil War. There is also a 17-page statement on the possibility of negro suffrage in North Carolina.