Meares and DeRosset family papers, 1839-1942 (bulk 1860-1910).

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Meares and DeRosset family papers, 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 familly affairs and the Civil War. There is also a 17-page statement on the possibility of negro suffrage in North Carolina.

ca. 8000 items (7.5 linear ft.)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7414407

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Meares, Gaston, 1821-1862.

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Meares, Kate de Rosset, 1830-

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Meares family.

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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...

De Rosset, A. J. (Armand John), 1807-1897

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