Duncan Cameron (1777-1853)

Name: Duncan Cameron (1777-1853)
Given Name: Duncan
Family Name: Cameron
Birth Date: 1777-12-15
Death Date: 1853-01-06
Sex: Male
Occupation: Landowning; Legal; Manual Labor
Description: Duncan Cameron (1777-1853), a white enslaver, was a banker, a judge, and one of the largest plantation owners in the American South. In 1802, he was named a trustee of the historically white University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. By the 1850s, he claimed in ownership more than 1,000 people who lived and worked in Orange County, N.C., Wake County, N.C., Greene County, Ala., and Tunica County, Miss.
Parent of: Thomas Amis Dudley Cameron; Paul C. Cameron (1808-1891); Jean Syme Cameron; Mary Ann Cameron; Rebecca Bennehan Cameron; Anne Owen Cameron; Mildred Coles Cameron; Margaret Bain Cameron Mordecai
Spouse of: Rebecca Bennehan Cameron
Place of Significance: Orange County, N. C.
Same As: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104591341; https://lccn.loc.gov/n88140028
Bibliographic Citation: Cameron Family Papers, 1757-1978. Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.; Sanders, Charles Richard. "Cameron, Duncan." NCPedia.