Indexed works
Works about or by Othniel Beale. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
Dispatches from William Bull to the Earl of Dartmouth, numbers 54-59
2019 · Adam Matthew Digital
Numbered dispatches 54 through 59 from William Bull, lieutenant governor of South Carolina, to William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth, secretary of state for the colonies, digitized by Adam Matthew Digital in 2019. Topics include the assembly, finance and currency, shipping, taxes, appointments, German and French Protestant migration, land grants and surveying, church building, education, and gold, silver and indigo. The Hillsborough connection is Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, Dartmouth's predecessor and the man for whom the Orange County town is named, rather than the town itself.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Beale, Othniel.
Letters from Charles Montagu to the Earl of Hillsborough
1772
Montagu's letters to the Earl of Hillsborough, dated 1772, range over surveying and the boundary, indigo, hemp and tobacco, crops and food, settlers, housing, and the workings of assembly and council. Nearly twenty South Carolina figures are named, among them Othniel Beale, Daniel Blake, Egerton Leigh and Charles Pinckney. One online resource in Colonial Office series CO 5/394, South Carolina original correspondence, 1770 to 1772.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Beale, Othniel.
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