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Excerpt from State Normal Magazine, Vol. 10: November, 1905 Of his first years nothing is known. By some he is said to have been a native of Granville county, North Carolina, where were many free born negroes. Others, the sons of his old neigh bors in that county, say that he was born in Hayti in about 1763; that in his young manhood he lived in Jamaica, where he became a. Communicant of the Church of England, and that he came to North Carolina in the latter part of the eighteenth century. His name is so plainly English that he was probably a Jamaican, if a West Indian at all. Otherwise one might weave about him a romance founded upon the stirring events which tore Hayti in 179094. There are yet living in Durham county, which was then a part of Granville, men who remember Chavis, and who tell of his visits to the homes of gentlemen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.