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Harvey Terry Buys Somerset Plantation (1890)

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Excerpted from the Creswell Letter:

Mr. Harvey TERRY, of Perquimans county, has purchased the old Summerset [sic] plantation, the residence of the late Josiah COLLINS, Sr.  With ample means, and the able management of Mr. TERRY this grand old place, with its thousands of acres of the most fertile land in the State, is to be brought back to its former productiveness and splendor.

Source: Roanoke Beacon, 28 March 1890, pg 2. Available online at digitalnc.org.

Harvey TERRY Buys Somerset (1889)

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Excerpt from the “Our Creswell Letter” column:

Mr. Harvey TERRY, of Pasquotank, has, so we learn, bought Somerset, one of our Lake farms.  He came over last evening bringing with him a surveyor to run off said farm.

Source: Roanoke Beacon, 26 July 1889.  Available online at digitalnc.org.