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- Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
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Hugh Waddell begins practising law in Hillsborough
Waddell, an 1818 graduate of the university, began to practise law in Hillsborough and Orange County in 1823 and kept his practice there until 1867, when he moved to Wilmington.
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Orange County sends Hugh Waddell to the House of Commons
Waddell was elected to the House of Commons from Orange County for the 1828-29 session and again in 1835, and then served Orange in the state senate in five sessions between 1836 and 1848, as president of the senate in 1836.
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Six enslaved women are baptized into Hillsborough Presbyterian Church
The Rev. S. J. Price baptized six women held by the Nash, Watters, Scott and Waddell households, and Frederick Nash and William J. Bingham received them as members. In the twenty years that followed under Robert Burwell, the church took in only one communicant of color.
People: Frederick Nash · William James Bingham · Hugh Waddell
Subject: Hillsborough Presbyterian Church
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The Recorder prints a county meeting's warning to abolitionists
An Orange County meeting adopted a report warning "northern fanatics" not to stir up the enslaved and predicting lasting hostility between the sections if abolitionists pressed on. Its fourteen-man committee included Frederick Nash, William A. Graham, Hugh Waddell, John U. Kirkland, Dr. Edmund Strudwick and the paper's own editor, Dennis Heartt, as a secretary.
People: Frederick Nash · William A. Graham · Hugh Waddell · John U. Kirkland · Edmund Strudwick · Dennis Heartt
Subject: Hillsborough Recorder
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Hugh Waddell of Orange serves as Whig Speaker of the state Senate
Waddell, who represented Orange in the Senate for three sessions between 1836 and 1846, presided over the Senate as its Whig Speaker in the 1836-1837 session.
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Maria L. Spear becomes principal of Hillsborough Female Seminary
After William M. Green's last announcement in 1838, the seminary's trustees named Maria L. Spear principal in 1839.
People: James Strudwick Smith · Cadwallader Jones · Hugh Waddell · William Mercer Green
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Hugh Waddell buys Job at auction as Stephen Moore's business fails
As the merchant Stephen Moore's business failed, Job was sold to the highest bidder and bought for $800 by the Hillsborough attorney Hugh Waddell, who made him his personal servant at Twin Chimneys on West King Street. When Waddell was away at court, Job was hired out, painting for John Berry, and his wages went to the Waddells.
People: Hugh Waddell · John Berry
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Hugh Waddell opens a school for law students in Hillsborough
In 1842 Waddell opened a school in Hillsborough to prepare young men for the bar.
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Sidney Smith is elected to the House of Commons for Orange County
Orange County's 1846 election sent Giles Mebane, Chesley F. Faucett, John B. Leathers and Sidney Smith to the House of Commons, with Hugh Waddell in the state Senate.
People: Giles Mebane · Hugh Waddell
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