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Jesse Benton, a lawyer, moved from Granville County to Orange County, where he had a plantation on the banks of the Eno River, and sat in the assembly in 1781. He was the father of U.S. Senator Thomas Hart Benton and died in the winter of 1790 to 1791.
Source: NCpedia: Benton, Thomas Hart
5 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 2 works by Jesse Benton. 1 held at OCPL →
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Letters written between 1780 and 1790 by Jesse Benton, a lawyer at Hillsborough, to Thomas Hart, the owner of the Hartford mill complex, edited by Stewart Dunaway and published in 2009. Sixty eight pages with illustrations, facsimiles and a plan. The correspondence falls in the Revolutionary and early federal years.
Letter of 1783 from Jesse Benton of Orange County, father of Senator Thomas Hart Benton, to Thomas Hart of Maryland about lawsuits and efforts to recover enslaved people who had escaped. The back of the sheet carries property valuations. Dated 1781 and 1783. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.322.
Stewart E. Dunaway's transcription of letters exchanged between Jesse Benton and Thomas Hart from 1780 to 1790, concerning Hart's affairs at Hartford, his place at Hillsborough. The letters concern the economic and social conditions of Hillsborough in the eighteenth century and the Revolution in North Carolina. Self-published through lulu.com in 2009, 68 pages with illustrations and facsimiles, and part of the library's Wall Local History Collection.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Benton, Jesse -- Correspondence.
Stewart E. Dunaway's earlier compilation of the Jesse Benton papers from Hartford at Hillsborough, covering 1780 to 1790, self-published in 1991, 68 pages with illustrations. Alongside the correspondence of Benton and Thomas Hart, it covers the Revolutionary War campaigns in North Carolina, including the battles of Hart's Mill and Lindley's Mill in 1781, both fought in what was then Orange County. Dunaway reissued the letters in 2009.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Benton, Jesse.
History of Maddock's Mill at Hillsborough and of its owners Thomas Hart, Rev. James Frazier, Jesse Benton and Catlett Campbell. Stewart E. Dunaway published it in 2022 through Lulu, 174 pages with illustrations, maps and facsimiles, appending Benton and Hart family histories.
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Stewart E. Dunaway's transcription of letters exchanged between Jesse Benton and Thomas Hart from 1780 to 1790, concerning Hart's affairs at Hartford, his place at Hillsborough. The letters concern the economic and social conditions of Hillsborough in the eighteenth century and the Revolution in North Carolina. Self-published through lulu.com in 2009, 68 pages with illustrations and facsimiles, and part of the library's Wall Local History Collection.
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