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John Armstrong (active 1764)

John Armstrong of Orange County made a contract in 1764 with Henry McCulloh of Halifax County about the operation of a mill on the Haw River. The small collection of his papers at UNC also holds a copy of an extract of a deed for land.

Source: UNC Libraries, Wilson Special Collections Library: John Armstrong Papers, 1764 and undated

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1 indexed work is connected with this person, and the index includes 2 works by John Armstrong (active 1764).

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By John Armstrong (active 1764)

Governors' Papers: William Hawkins Correspondence, April 1813

Armstrong, John, 1758-1843 · 1813

Governor William Hawkins's correspondence for April 1813, 59 images, with Secretary of War John Armstrong among the writers. Matters include the militia, state boundaries, steamboats, horse stealing, fugitives and judges, and Chapel Hill appears alongside Haywood, Stokes and Wilkes counties and the name of Henry Seawell.

NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

John Armstrong papers, 1764, undated.

Armstrong, John, 1725-1795 · 1764

Two items from John Armstrong, who lived from 1725 to 1795, one dated 1764 and one undated, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 23-z. The papers concern eighteenth century real property, mills and mill work in North Carolina, with references to Henry Eustace McCulloh and to Orange and Halifax counties.

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Life and Orange County connections

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  1. John Armstrong contracts with Henry McCulloh to run a mill on the Haw River John Armstrong of Orange County and Henry McCulloh of Halifax County made a contract about the operation of a mill on the Haw River.Search the index · UNC Libraries, Wilson Special Collections Library: John Armstrong Papers, 1764 and undated
  2. The House pays the men who carried the state treasury out of Hillsborough On November 10, 1789 the House of Commons voted to pay John Armstrong of Orange County three pounds for taking the Treasury's books and papers from Hillsborough to Fayetteville, and five pounds each to nine men of the Orange Company of Horse who guarded the money on the road. The treasurer's office had been kept in the town since 1786 in the confiscated store known as the Blue House, and its records had already been carted to Tarboro and back in 1787 and 1788. People: John Armstrong (active 1764)Search the index · Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, vol. 21: House Journal, Fayetteville, November 10, 1789

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  • NC LIVE: prepared search for John Armstrong Library card An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
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