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Sailing to Texas

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32411
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In Dec. 1851 eighty persons, consisting of planters and their families and servants, from Sampson, Duplin, and New Hanover Counties, sailed from Wilmington, NC to settle in Texas. In Jan. 1853, 127 people (white and black) from Nash County, NC, wagon trained to Wilmington, NC to sail to settle in Texas.
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