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Title
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1841, Jim Bay (1816 - 1841), Illness
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Description
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Jim Bay (about 1816 - about 1841) was an enslaved Black man who was claimed in ownership by Duncan Cameron (1777-1853) at Bobbits Plantation. On a list of enslaved people who died after April 01, 1837, it is noted that Jim Bay became ill and later died from typhus pneumonia around age 25 in about 1841.
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Date
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1845
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Bibliographic Citation
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List of 54 enslaved people who died after April 1, 1837 in the Cameron Family Papers, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Folder no. 1997, Box no. 87, Collection no. 00133
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Age
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25
