This query concerns one Joseph P. Prairie, who appears in US censuses in North Carolina in 1860, 1870 and 1880.

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In 1860, his place of birth was given as Lower Canada and his age as 27 (born 1832-33). In 1870, he is shown as 36 (b 1833-34), and in 1880 as 45 (b 1834-35).

In 1860 he was shown as living with a professor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. That professor, his wife and his daughter (age 18) were shown as born in Mass.

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