Robert Lee Foy Collection, 1762-1894

Harnett, Cornelius, 1723-1781

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Cornelius Harnett (April 10, 1723 – April 28, 1781) was a Founding Father of the United States and an American merchant and statesman from Wilmington, North Carolina. He was a leading American Revolutionary statesman in the Cape Fear region, and a delegate for North Carolina in the Continental Congress from 1777 to 1779 where he signed the Articles of Confederation. Born in Chowan County in the Province of North Carolina, his family moved to Brunswick Town and Wilmington during his youth. As ...

Foy, Joseph Mumford, 1817-1861

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Joseph Mumford Foy was an enslaver and owner of the Poplar Grove Plantation located in Scotts Hill in Pender County near Wilmington, North Carolina. Foy was born May 25, 1817. Despite being an avowed Unionist, Foy operated a sweet potato and peanut plantation which enslaved many of Gullah Geechee people. Foy was married to Mary Ann Simmons and died April 1, 1861. His family plantation is now a museum and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places....

Poplar Grove Plantation (Pender County, N.C.)

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Poplar Grove Planation was a sweet potato and peanut-producing plantation which exploited the labor of the enslaved Gullah Geechee people to produce its crops. The plantation was located near Scotts Hill in Pender County, N.C.and was owned primarily by the Foy family. Poplar Grove Plantation is now a museum and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places....

Foy family.

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Foy, Robert Lee.

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The Foy family settled in southeastern North Carolina prior to the American Revolution, and James Foy, Jr., purchased Poplar Grove Plantation at Scott's Hill in 1795. Poplar Grove was owned originally by Cornelius Harnett. The Foy home was built by Joseph Montford Foy around 1850. From the description of Robert Lee Foy collection, 1762-1894 [manuscript]. (East Carolina University). WorldCat record id: 268954372 ...

Pickett, John.

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Moore, James W. (James Wendell), 1938-

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Wilmington and Topsail Sound Plank Road Company.

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