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Ashe was one of the trustees who met in December 1792 and ratified the commissioners' unanimous choice of New Hope Chapel Hill, in Orange County, as the seat of the University of North Carolina. He was named to the committee to prepare an ordinance carrying the commissioners' report into effect.
Source: Documenting the American South: Board of Trustees Minutes, December 3-13, 1792
1725–1813 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
9 works about Samuel Ashe are indexed here.
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Samuel A. Ashe's eight volume set of North Carolina biographies, published by C.L. Van Noppen from 1905 and running from the colonial period forward. The sketches take in governors, judges and public men, among them William Tryon, Frederick Nash, Richard Henderson and Matt W. Ransom. Genealogists use the set as a name source for families across the state, Orange County included.
Included because: Listed as its creator.
Diaries and papers of John Hill Wheeler of Hertford County, historian, legislator, state treasurer from 1843 to 1845 and minister to Nicaragua from 1854 to 1857. The diaries, a broken run from 1854 to 1882, follow his social and political life in Washington, D.C. University commencements at Chapel Hill and his work on North Carolina history also come up. State Archives of North Carolina, MfP.51.
Included because: Their name appears in the record.
David Paton, the Scottish architect who supervised building of the State Capitol in Raleigh, is the subject of these letters and papers, 1834 to 1940. Letters of 1834 to 1840 from the architect Ithiel Town discuss the rebuilding commissioners and the changes Paton proposed to Town's design. Chapel Hill, Hillsborough and the university also appear. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.158.
Included because: Their name appears in the record.
Samuel Ashe, North Carolina's ninth governor and earlier a Wilmington lawyer who served the Crown before siding with the Revolution, sent and received these letters in April 1798. Edward Jones is among the writers, and Hillsborough appears among the places concerned. Thirty images.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Ashe, Samuel, 1725-1813.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
North Carolina land grant number 479, conveying 595 acres in Orange County to John Walker, with the survey of the tract. The papers are dated 27 January to 5 December 1797, and the names of Governors Alexander Martin and Samuel Ashe are attached to them.
Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Ashe, Samuel, 1725-1813.
Miscellaneous petitions to the North Carolina General Assembly, December 1793 to January 1794, 140 images, from Obediah Binge, John Turner, William Dudley, John Stoss, William Blair and residents of Stokes County, among many others. They concern fishing and dams, gristmills, prisoners, sheriffs, gambling and tax relief in counties from Currituck to Burke.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Ashe, Samuel, 1725-1813.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Material sent to the North Carolina General Assembly for perusal in 1783, 16 images. Richard Caswell, Abner Nash and Samuel Ashe appear, and the papers touch on admiralty, the courts, public debt and the Continental Congress.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Ashe, Samuel, 1725-1813.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Senate joint resolutions of 8 and 9 February 1781, 24 images, on tax gatherers in counties without treasurers, a rejected resolution for Samuel Ashe, a rejected allowance for corn supplied to the army, and an order sending Brigadier General John Butler to raise some or all of the Hillsborough District militia.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Ashe, Samuel, 1725-1813.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Minute docket, part 1, of the Superior Court for the Hillsborough District, 1768 to 1788, spanning the late colonial court and the state courts set up after the 1776 constitution. Cases involve debt, estates, theft, horse stealing, murder, treason and slavery, and names include William Tryon, Richard Henderson, Maurice Moore and Richard Caswell. 234 images.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Ashe, Samuel, 1725-1813.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
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