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Abstract | Philip Northern Bray (1858-1938), of Currituck County, N.C., was a farmer and lumberman, and owner of a country store and barroom in Sligo, N.C. The collection contains a daybook and two ledgers containing accounts from widely scattered dates of a Currituck County, N.C., general store and saloon. Accounts for 1856 are of John Gray; all others are of Philip N. Bray, Sligo, N.C. |
Creator | Bray, Philip Northern, 1858-1938. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009; Nancy Kaiser, January 2021
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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Philip Northern Bray (1858-1938) of Currituck County, N.C., was the son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Humphries Bray. He was a farmer and lumberman, sometime postmaster at Sligo, N.C., Register of Deeds, 1910-1914, and had a country store and barroom.
Back to TopThe collection includes a daybook and two ledgers containing accounts from widely scattered dates of a Currituck County, N.C., general store and saloon. Accounts for 1856 are of John Gray; all others are of Philip N. Bray and partners, Sligo, N.C.
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Volume 1: Account book, 1856, 1876-1877, 1895John Gray, Currituck County, for general merchandise; also account of sales of goods of John Gray, sold by Benjamin N. Bray, trustee; Bray & Morse, Lull's Creek, N.C., for merchandise and drinks. |
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Volume 2: Ledger, 1896-1900Philip N. Bray, containing accounts for merchandise sold (showing totals, not itemized sales). Includes an index. |
Oversize Volume SV-3745/3 |
Volume 3: Ledger, 1900-1905, 1916-1918Philip N. Bray, containing accounts for merchandise sold. Includes some account of Bell & Bray, headed "Roper tract," and "William's tract," etc. |
Oversize volumes (SV-3745/1-3).
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