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Silas White Arnett

1761–1806 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Joint Standing Committees: Committee of Claims

North Carolina. General Assembly · 1788

Reports of the General Assembly's Committee of Claims from the 1788 session, taken up claim by claim from 5 December, in 169 images. Early claims came from John Cains, Bird Ferrel, John Nichols, Thomas Johnston and Benjamin Ward. The accounts touch on militia service, deserters, prisoners, executions, the printer Abraham Hodge, sheriffs, surveying, and business in Hillsborough and Orange County.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Arnett, Silas White, 1761-1806.

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Background context: NCpedia: Silas W. Arnett NCpedia Dictionary of North Carolina Biography entry
Search beyond the index: NC LIVE: prepared search for Silas White Arnett NC LIVE 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
Ask locally: Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
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