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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Benjamin Franklin Royal Papers, #2835, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift, 1952

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Sensitive Materials Statement

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• Carteret County (N.C.)--History.
• Deeds--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Estates (Law)--North Carolina.
• Lighthouses--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Lookout, Cape (N.C.)--History.
• Morehead City (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Pigott family.
• Royal family.
• Royal, Benjamin Franklin, 1884-1971.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.

Scattered papers, chiefly deeds, wills, and estate accounts pertaining to Carteret County, N.C., and primarily to the Royal and Pigott families. Also included are inventories of equipment and other papers pertaining to the Cape Lookout lighthouse, 1864-1869; scattered correspondence, including letters from Confederate prisoners of war; and a few pages of a diary, early 1865, kept by an unknown person who lived in federally-occupied Morehead City, N.C., and who was in touch with Confederate scouts.