Record Series and Collections

1844

Recorded Copy Reference: RB-25/492 (RB = Record Book.)

Original: AR (The original will is in the North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.)

Location where will was filed and probated: Wake County

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1893

Recorded Copy Reference: WB-C/167 (WB = WillBook)

Original: AR (The original will is in the North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.)

Location where will was filed and probated: Wake County

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1861 - 1863

Series is part of the John Devereux Papers collection.Even before the North Carolina seceded from the Union, the state began to prepare itself militarily by purchasing arms and ammunition and enlarging the staff of the state adjutant general. ...

1712 - 1892

Series is part of the John Devereux Papers collection.The Pollock and the Devereux families were among the largest landowners and slaveholders in North Carolina. This small lot of documents includes some papers of the Pollock family prior to ...

1790 - 2001

Portrait of John Devereux (1761-1844) as a young man, probably c. 1790s. Devereux married into the prominent Pollock family, and with their combined wealth, established himself as one of the state's most affluent residents.

1712 - 1892

This collection contains papers relating to the Pollock and Devereux families, among the largest landowners and slaveholders in North Carolina during the antebellum period. This small lot of documents includes some papers of the Pollock family prior to ...

1730 - 1866

Papers related to the property and legal affairs of the Pollock and Devereux families, including land deeds from Bertie, Martin, Halifax, Northampton, and Franklin counties, as well as plats for the Hawfields property in Orange County. The collection ...

1819 - 1846

Papers of Jacocks of Kesiah, clerk and master of Bertie Co. Superior Court of Equity, consisting mainly of letters from family and business acquaintances. Letters (1819-1836) from his brother Jonathan of Stevenson's Point concern business, farming, ...

1866

Cohabited since 1864

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1861 - 1865

Series consists of various sets of accounts. One account records provisions issued to volunteers assembled at the camp of instruction near Raleigh in April and May 1861. Another consists of twelve related accounts dated October 1861- July 1862, ...

1861 - 1862

Letters to Capt. C. W. Garrett, assistant quartermaster, Raleigh, and several to Capt. John Devereux and Capt. M. A. Bledsoe, also assistant quartermasters in Raleigh, from merchants, purchasing agents, and others throughout North Carolina and several ...