Papers, 1786-1908.

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Papers, 1786-1908.

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The collection includes several letters written to Nehemiah and Catherine by his half-brothers, their children, and other Pearson relatives. They relate family news and describe their frontier farming activities. In addition, the collection contains a petition by Sterling residents to construct a wall around the burial grounds, family records taken from a Bible, a manuscrit pamphlet of "Articles of Faith" for 1786 which contains family records, and the will and legal correspondence concerning the estate of Merrick Pearson ( -1877) (possibly Nehemiah's son), who was a foreman of a lumber business in Danville, Quebec Province,Canada. Several birthday greetings and poems written to and by Charles Bell Pearson (1822-1909) are included with the papers.

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Gadsden Public Library

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Pearson, Joseph, Esq.

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Pearson, Richmond Mumford, 1805-1878

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Lawyer, legislator, and member of the North Carolina Supreme Court. From the description of Papers, 1862-1864. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154270773 Richmond Mumford Pearson, who lived successively in Rowan, Davie, and Surry (later Yadkin) counties, N.C., was a lawyer; legislator; Superior and Supreme Court judge, chief justice of North Carolina, 1858-1878; noted teacher of law; unionist Whig; and, after the Civil War, Republican. From the guid...

Pearson family.

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Joseph Pearson (1759-1840) and his wife, Mary (Farrar) Pearson (1762-1789), lived in Sterling, Mass., and had five children: Polly (1782- ), Anna (1783- ), Silas (1785- ), Betsey (1786- ), and Nehemiah. Nehemiah Pearson (1789-1874) and his wife, Catherine (1796?-1884), also lived in Sterling. Joseph Pearson married a second time to an unknown wife, with whom he had six children: Clara (1797- ), Increase Sumner (1799- ), Richmond (1802- ), Joseph (1804- ), Meroa (1807- ),...

Pearson, Merrick, d. 1877.

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Pearson, Nehemiah, 1789-1874.

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Pearson, Increase Sumner, b. 1799.

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Pearson, Charles Bell, 1822-1909.

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Pearson, Catherine

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