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555. RORER FAMILY PAPERS

ca. 500 items, ca. 1770-1935, microfilm (M-1385)
Business, legal, and personal papers of this family of Pittsylvania County. A diary entry for February 24, 1848, mentions that a slave named Margaret murdered a white female baby of the family of John Jones and Angeline Rorer Jones in Wentworth, North Carolina. In a journal is a "Register of Blacks, 1835-1865" with birth dates and mothers' names of family slaves.
(Acc. 7901)