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- Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
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Matthew McCauley Jr. sells Elisha Mitchell a lot on West Franklin Street
Professor Elisha Mitchell bought a West Franklin Street lot from Matthew McCauley in 1838 and sold it in 1847 to Patterson H. McDade.
People: Elisha Mitchell · Patterson H. McDade
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The General Assembly passes an act incorporating Chapel Hill under five commissioners
Chapter 330 of the 1850-51 session laws, ratified January 29, 1851, made Manuel Fetter, Jesse Hargrave, Patterson H. McDade, Elisha Mitchell and Jones Watson the commissioners of Chapel Hill, with five commissioners to be elected each February after. They were to choose a magistrate of police, treasurer, constable and clerk and fix the town's bounds.
People: Elisha Mitchell · Jones Watson · Manuel Fetter · Jesse Hargrave · Patterson H. McDade
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The legislature charters four plank road companies through Orange County
The 1855 charters were for roads from Chapel Hill to Morrisville and to Durhamsville, from Hillsborough to Chapel Hill, and from Hillsborough to Milton, with capital from $20,000 to $150,000. The book could not say which, if any, were built.
People: Charles Phillips · Edmund Strudwick · Andrew Mickle · Patterson H. McDade
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The Chapel Hill Baptist Church starts its Sunday school
The Sunday school opened with P. H. McDade, the church's first clerk, as superintendent. It soon had a library of about three hundred books, and in 1861 its pupils memorized 20,000 Bible verses.
People: Patterson H. McDade
Subject: University Baptist Church
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Chapel Hill's commissioners enter resolutions on the death of their fellow commissioner Elisha Mitchell
The village board recorded its loss of Mitchell, who sat with them as a commissioner, and ordered the resolutions entered in the village journals. Copies went to his family and the Chapel Hill Gazette.
People: Patterson H. McDade · Hugh B. Guthrie · John H. Watson
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