FOR THE OBSERVER.
Messrs. Editors: — Below please find a list of reports handed to me by one of the officers of the Deep River Soldiers’ Aid Society. Please insert in your paper.
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Articles Collected by Mrs. J.C. Hooker and Miss P.C. Harris. — … Lydia Goins, (free negress,) lot pepper, soap and balm; Lydia Ransom, (free negress,) lot sage, catnip and bearfoot …
Carolina Observer, Fayetteville, 28 October 1861.
LEGISLATURE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
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HOUSE OF COMMONS.
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By Mr. Green, of Franklin, a memorial from Ellen Ransom, a free woman of color, of Franklin county, to be allowed to enslave herself for life to Leonidas Perry.
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Weekly Standard, Raleigh, 12 December 1860.
In the 1860 census of Franklinton, Franklin County: Susan Ransom, 75, washerwoman, daughter Ellen, 26, her children Marcellus, 9, and Susan, 7, and Henrietta Mason, 15.
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Legislature of North Carolina.
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HOUSE OF COMMONS.
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By Mr. Ewell, a bill to permit Celia Lynch, a free woman of color, to enslave herself for life. Referred to committee on propositions and grievances.
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Weekly Standard, Raleigh, 19 December 1860.
