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- Revolution and early republic · 1775–1799
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Orange County chooses a committee of safety
Orange had no committee of safety until the summer of 1775, and Samuel Johnston wrote on August 14 that one had been chosen. By 1776 John Hogan was its chairman and James Hogg its secretary; its records for 1775 and 1776 are lost.
People: James Hogg · Samuel Johnston · Colonel John Hogan
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The Provincial Congress names Orange County's minutemen and militia officers
Orange was to raise three companies of minutemen, and James Thackston was named colonel of minutemen for the Hillsborough district. For the county militia the Congress named John Hogan colonel, John Butler lieutenant colonel, William Moore first major and Nathaniel Rochester second major.
People: John Butler · Nathaniel Rochester · James Thackston · Colonel John Hogan
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John Butler is commissioned lieutenant colonel of the Orange County militia
The Third Provincial Congress named John Butler to the committee of safety for the Hillsborough District and on September 9, 1775 made him lieutenant colonel of the Orange County militia under Colonel John Hogan. Minutemen officers were named by district, not county. Butler went on to lead the county's militia in the Moore's Creek Bridge campaign and became its colonel in April 1776.
Part of Third Provincial Congress at Hillsborough, 1775 · 15 events
People: Colonel John Hogan
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Orange County votes again after the Halifax Congress voids its October return
The Congress first upheld the sitting Orange members on November 21, then on November 28 ordered a new election run by named commissioners over as many as three days. Held December 10, it returned Thomas Burke, Nathaniel Rochester, Alexander Mebane, John Butler and John McCabe, who took their seats just before the state constitution was adopted.
People: Thomas Burke · Nathaniel Rochester · John Butler · Richard Bennehan · Colonel John Hogan · Alexander Mebane
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Merchants who traded with Britain are ordered to swear allegiance or leave
Under a state act, the August court cited fourteen merchants and agents, among them James Hogg, and only Nathaniel Rochester and John Hogan took the oath. The court ordered everyone who failed to appear or to swear, Quakers excepted, to leave for Europe or the West Indies within sixty days.
People: James Hogg · Nathaniel Rochester · Colonel John Hogan
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John Hogan's paper mill opens near Hillsborough
A notice in the North Carolina Gazette announced a newly built paper mill near Hillsborough ready to work and asked households to save linen rags for it. John Hogan owned the mill, a mile and a half northeast of town; drought hampered it in 1778, and the Assembly gave him more time to earn the state's premium for paper.
People: Colonel John Hogan
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Drought shuts down the state gun factory near Hillsborough
The factory's shop sat beside a creek on Thomas Burke's land about two miles northeast of town, and a dry summer left the creek too low to drive its wheel. The dry spell slowed the paper mill as well, and the Assembly gave John Hogan more time to earn the paper bounty.
People: Thomas Burke · Colonel John Hogan
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John Hogan is appointed trustee for Orange County
The county court named John Hogan trustee, the office later called county treasurer, under a bond of 1,500 pounds. The book dates the treasurer's office in Orange from 1778 to its abolition in 1948.
People: Colonel John Hogan · William McCauley
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John Hogan sits as Orange County's state senator
For the 1779 General Assembly, Colonel John Hogan was Orange County's senator, with Mark Patterson and William McCauley as its members in the House of Commons and Thomas Tulloch for the borough of Hillsborough.
People: William McCauley
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Thomas Lloyd signs his lands and enslaved people over to his sons-in-law
To keep his property from confiscation as a Loyalist, Thomas Lloyd conveyed his lands and the people he enslaved to his sons-in-law Daniel and John Hogan for nominal sums and leased them straight back. His property was never confiscated.
Part of Slavery in Orange County · 102 events
People: Colonel John Hogan
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Trustees fix the university at Chapel Hill and list its Orange County land donors
Meeting on December 5, 1792, the trustees voted unanimously to place the university at New Hope Chapel Hill and recorded nine donors of Orange County land, among them Matthew McCauley (150 acres) and William McCauley (100 acres). Each donor could have one student educated free of tuition.
People: Edmund Jones · Mark Morgan · Christopher Barbee · Colonel John Hogan · William McCauley
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