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- Colonial and Regulator years · 1680–1774
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Mark Morgan is granted land in the New Hope Creek section
Morgan secured land in the New Hope Creek section of eastern Orange. By 1755 he held more enslaved people than anyone else in the county.
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Mark Morgan sits in the General Assembly for Orange County
Mark Morgan, a justice of the peace and militia officer who had settled on Morgan Creek near present Chapel Hill, was a member of the colonial General Assembly for Orange County for the 1753-54 session.
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Eight percent of Orange families hold people in slavery
In 1755 only 8 percent of the county's families held enslaved people, and the largest holder, Mark Morgan, held six.
People: Mark Morgan
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Mark Morgan fails to qualify for his captaincy at the Orange regiment's general muster
Reporting on the Orange regiment's general muster, Lieutenant Colonel Josias Dickson told Governor Arthur Dobbs that Mark Morgan had notice of his appointment as captain but did not attend to be qualified. Major Alexander Mebane listed Morgan among captains who refused to act and proposed Thomas Loyd in his place.
People: Arthur Dobbs
- Revolution and early republic · 1775–1799
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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: John Hogan · Edmund Jones · Mark Morgan
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