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502. LAWRENCE O'BRYAN BRANCH PAPERS

ca. 650 items, ca. 1840-80 microfilm (M-2296)
Personal, political, and military correspondence of this North Carolina citizen. The correspondence between Branch and his wife contains some comment on family slaves. A March 8, 1862, letter from J. Robert Jeffreys in Pacific, North Carolina, answering a request from Branch, replies that Jeffreys "drafted" fifty-six free blacks and sent them to the chief engineer at New Bern, North Carolina.
(Acc. 10057)