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Ho Carolina & owned 17 hundred negro slaves0 His neighbors called him the negro King & he didn?t, like it so.if. any one asked him how many he had he said he didn?t Know* The nearest large town'to his plants-:,ion was Newbera0 Kinston isn?t very far from Newbern, which was laid off & Bottled by our family & every one in it. wore kin they called tho town Kins town & each s treat was named for tbs family that- settled it* There was a Bright Street, Caswell Street with Gov-c Caswell's Satrue on it- 1st Govc of f>3 Carolina9 whom uncle BILLIE LOVICK?5 daughter, EL j .3A3JSTH LQVXCSo Mitchell stOJ Washington Stos where uncle JOHN WASHINGTON lived,, &r-<i vtiextff my Father-,, JAfclES B? MITCHELL & ?uncle HENDERSON A0 BRIGHT Sunt ?rom	to	Chapill Hill College, uncle JOHN
WASHINGTON rarote Grandfathers BRIGHT f.- MITCHELL to let tho boys spend their summer vacations in Kins Sown with his b.O'sxv their headauax-fcers & visit around with the other kinsfolkc Which they did for 4 years before return?
In/ to Fla0 When my father & his uncle EENDERS02J BRIGHT returned from eh&ppell Hill Golleje they had to go by stage coach & whar they -came to Grandfather BBXGrlf^S Plantation* Valam?orosia8 the big horn? ?ms all 3 stories illuminated & ixghts in the rows of th-a slaves quarters* socie of the passengers on the rjaoh asked the driver nWhat town is this? & he replied ?Valem= brosia" ^-ich the name of the plantation home? Grandfather BRIGHT also owned '? brick factory & a good, many negroes? The briok that made the wall aro*--^ ^he navyyard at Pensacola was made at his brisk kxln0 When I visited -ensacola some years ego Brother LXJE took Cos PAULINE & her girls & me to ;he navy yard & I saw "BRIGHT? printed in several bricks near the gate<>
Both of the Grandfathers MITCHELL & BRIGHT had their winter homes in ?ensacola right across Palifaz sto from each other & they had the 1st piscopal Church built there of brick on Alcaniz, the main street in the ityc It is a beautiful little Church with mahogany beams & sidings inside covered all over now with English ivy<>
My Grandfathers FIELDING LEWIS DANIELL?S Father was ROBERT DANIELL, son f JOHN DANIELL* a land grove 0 ROBERT DANIELL	12th anv*-.
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