Meares and DeRosset Family . 1839-1942 (bulk 1860-1910)

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Meares and DeRosset Family . 1839-1942 (bulk 1860-1910)

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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.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6628038

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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DeRosset family (Wilmington, N.C.)

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The DeRosset family descended from French Huguenot Armand John DeRosset, who immigrated to the American colonies in the 1730s and settled in Wilmington, N.C., where four generations of DeRossets worked as physicians and merchants. Family members included Armand John DeRosset (1767-1859) and his wife Catherine Fullerton DeRosset (1773-1837) and children Moses John (1796-1826), Catherine Fullerton Kennedy (1800-1889), Eliza Ann (1802-1888), Magdalen Mary (1806-1850), and Mary Jane Curtis (1813-190...

Meares family.

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