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[Identification of item], in the Nealia Pickens and Jesse Graves Papers, #599-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Alamance County(N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Graves, Jesse.
• Hendersonville (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Pickens, Nealia.
• Real property--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Slaves--North Carolina.
• Women--North Carolina--History--19th century.

The collection contains two letters written to Nealia Pickens of Hendersonville, N.C., one undated from her cousin Kate and the other dated 3 January 1867 from an unidentified friend. The other two items are an indenture dated 1 April 1854 bequeathing two Negroes named Ellen and Arnold and valued at 800 dollars to Mary E. Graves wife of Jesse Graves and a demand for special tax dated 19 May 1868 from the Office of the Collector of Internal Revenue to Jesse Graves.