Nathaniel D. Bain

Life and Orange County connections

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1. May 16, 1844 William Gattis, superintendent of the county poorhouse, dies William Gattis, for many years superintendent of the Orange County poorhouse and an elder of the Presbyterian church, died in his seventy-first year. Two days later the Court of Wardens met in Hillsborough, recorded that he had served the public with the utmost fidelity and sent its sympathy to his widow. People: Nathaniel D. BainSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 23, 1844, p. 3
2. August 29, 1845 Orange Wardens of the Poor require written applications for relief The Court of Wardens of the Poor ordered that every application for county relief be made in writing and signed by a justice of the peace and at least two other respectable persons. People: Nathaniel D. BainSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, September 11, 1845, p. 3
3. February Term 1847 The court binds Andrew Jackson, a boy of color raised at the poorhouse, to Charles Cox In November 1846 the court rescinded an order binding Andrew Jackson, a boy of color, to the wardens of the poor and bound him to Charles Cox. At the February 1847 term it bound him to Cox again as seventeen, on certificates that he had first been entered as a pauper at the poorhouse on October 1, 1833, when a woman living there thought him two or three, and that he was no older than seventeen. In November 1849 the court moved him to Bedford Hurdle to learn wagonmaking. People: Nathaniel D. BainSearch the index · Mark Chilton, Freedom Bound: Apprenticeship, Racism & Liberation in Orange County, North Carolina 1777 to 1868 (Wandering through the NC Piedmont)
4. November Term 1865 The court binds Mary C. Pugh, aged ten, to Nathaniel D. Bain On motion, the court bound Mary C. Pugh, ten, to Nathaniel D. Bain until she reached 18; her bond, dated 28 November 1865, bound her to learn spinning. People: Nathaniel D. BainSearch the index · Mark Chilton, Freedom Bound: Apprenticeship, Racism & Liberation in Orange County, North Carolina 1777 to 1868 (Wandering through the NC Piedmont)
5. August 5, 1878 Orange magistrates elect a new board of county commissioners The county's magistrates elected five county commissioners, keeping three including chairman Jones Watson and replacing W. T. Patterson and N. P. Hall with Joseph W. Latta and N. D. Bain; the new board was sworn in on December 2 and re-elected Watson chairman. People: Jones Watson, Nathaniel D. Bain, Nelson Parrish HallSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 14, 1878, p. 3
6. December 2, 1878 New county commissioners order an Eno bridge and call the justices to plan a new jail At its first meeting the new board of commissioners ordered a bridge of oak timber on stone pillars built over the Eno at a mill crossing for no more than $475, ordered a room prepared for lunatics then held in the county jail, and called the justices of the peace to meet with it in January 1879 to consider building a new jail. People: Jones Watson, Nathaniel D. BainSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, December 11, 1878, p. 3
7. December 6, 1880 Newly elected county commissioners take office and re-elect Jones Watson chairman The county commissioners elected in November, Jones Watson, John F. Lyon, N. D. Bain, J. W. Latta and D. F. Morrow, were sworn in at the Hillsborough court house and re-elected Watson chairman. They accepted the bonds of the newly elected officers, Sheriff John K. Hughes, Treasurer R. C. Tilley, Surveyor B. H. Bell, Coroner Dr. T. J. Wilson and Register of Deeds John Laws, and settled in full with the former treasurer, D. C. Parks. People: Jones Watson, David C. Parks, Nathaniel D. Bain, John Knox HughesSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), December 18, 1880, p. 2
8. June 6, 1881 Orange reassigns the parts of Durham and Patterson townships left outside Durham County Meeting together, the Orange magistrates and county commissioners attached the parts of Patterson and Durham townships not taken into Durham County to Chapel Hill, Hillsborough and Little River townships, according to whether they lay east of Chapel Hill Township, south of the Eno or north of it. People: Jones Watson, Nathaniel D. BainOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), June 18, 1881, p. 3
9. August 7, 1882 The justices and school board elect J. L. Currie county superintendent of public instruction Meeting at the court house, the county's justices of the peace and board of education elected the Rev. James L. Currie, Presbyterian pastor at Chapel Hill, county superintendent of public instruction for two years from the first Monday in December. Currie accepted on August 9, calling the choice unexpected. People: Nathaniel D. BainSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 19, 1882, p. 2
10. September 26 to 30, 1884 Orange Presbytery holds its fall session at Hillsborough Orange Presbytery opened its 229th semiannual session at the Hillsborough Presbyterian church with a sermon by the retiring moderator, Rev. J. L. Currie, elected Rev. S. H. Chester moderator, and adjourned the next Tuesday after naming Henderson for its next meeting. People: James L. Currie, Nathaniel D. BainSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 4, 1884, p. 3
11. August 1887 Farmers of the Fairfield neighborhood organize a Farmers' Club at Fairfield Church Farmers of the Fairfield neighborhood met at Fairfield Church and organized a Farmers' Club, electing N. P. Hall president, David Thompson vice president, Frank Smith treasurer and N. D. Bain Sr. secretary. They named delegates to the county farmers' meeting called at Hillsborough for August 27. People: Nathaniel D. Bain, Nelson Parrish HallSearch the index · Hillsboro Recorder, August 25, 1887, p. 2
12. September 17, 1887 Orange County farmers organize the Orange County Club at the court house After a July 30 mass meeting addressed by Kemp P. Battle, farmers met at the court house on September 17, adopted a constitution and by-laws reported by S. S. Webb, and elected Alexander McIver of Oaks president of the Orange County Club, with William D. Latta, N. D. Bain and Thomas H. Hughes as the other officers. Twenty-nine farmers enrolled, and a committee was named to consider forming a farmers' institute. People: Alexander McIver, Kemp Plummer Battle, Nathaniel D. BainSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 24, 1887, p. 3